They craved the facts of the Last Breath Pellets so bad as they were in the dark as well.
To their surprise, the disciple responded with embarrassment, "Referring to the question of the Esteemed Chief Seniors, I just realized that the Most Refined Royal Pellets hadn't worked in full play. Hence I was actually busy activating them. As for the Last Breath Pellets that I just took, they melted the moment I put them in my mouth. However, they haven't worked yet."
On hearing that, the three chief seniors nodded in agreement.
And there had been other disciples opening their eyes constantly with the same response — they were busy activating the Most Refined Royal Pellets all across the board.
The three chief seniors held ambivalent feelings toward the disciples' unanimous response, feeling both surprised and bewildered. On the one hand, they were delighted that the Most Refined Royal Pellets are most effective to warriors at a preliminary martial level. In that case, they have to be engaged in cultivation for multiple times. On the other hand, they were still baffled about the efficacy of the Last Breath Pellets.
Not until then did the three chief seniors remembered the presence of the mountain owners.
The primary chief senior turned back and asked the mountain owners about the pellets they just took.
One of them responded straight away, "Referring to the question of the Esteemed Primary Chief Senior, the Most Refined Royal Pellets were so powerful that I realized that I haven't fully activated them either."
"Right! He is right! The Most Refined Royal Pellets are just marvellous!" the rest of mountain owners echoed forthwith.
At that moment, they even began to doubt themselves.
It would be nothing but a happenstance if there had been only one disciple saying so. However, since it applied to all disciples, it must be true that the Most Refined Royal Pellets were spectacular.
Then the mountain owners started to suspect that the Last Breath Pellets' inaction could have boiled down to their incompletion of their previous cultivation regarding the Most Refined Royal Pellets. That explained their response to the chief seniors.
The three chief seniors nodded and took their word for that forthwith.
"Such being the case, you can go back now. Do bear it in mind that you have to activate the pellets with immediate effect, as the annual martial contest is around the corner," the three chief seniors said. Since they were done with the allocation of pellets, they wanted to report the result to Lin Xiao and the patriarch as soon as possible. And they craved the facts of the Last Breath Pellets.
"Okay. Then please excuse me," a mountain owner said and was about to leave with his disciples.
Like Yi Tianzhong, the mountain owner also intimidated his disciples to leave the pellets to him alone. He was afraid that his disciples may tell on him.
However, as an old saying went, what you dreaded the most often happened right away.
Right then, a disciple yelled at the top of his lungs, "Esteemed chief seniors, help!"
In the meantime, he flopped down to the ground, kneeling to the three chief seniors. With him taking the lead, there had been hundreds of disciples kneeling right after him.
The three chief seniors, who were about to depart, stopped forthwith, as they were all domestic disciples, being of great significance to the Taixuan Sect.