Chapter 244: Imperial families.

As Drobo got down from his chair he stepped out into the opening where the nascent soul stage cultivator was standing. He looked up at the man for a moment before he turned around and looked down at him.

"Are you from this middle realm? Hmm… is it also a place for midgets too?" The cultivator asked with a smirk on his face as he tried to impress the people who were present within the hall. But not a single person let out so much as a chuckle.

"Come on. You don't really expect me to fight this guy, do you? What if I accidentally step on him?" The cultivator looked up at Haru who was standing with a blank expression. He couldn't help but feel bad for the guy and began to fear that there would be no one who could save him at this point. He didn't quite know how strong Drobo was but if he came from the middle realm then he was in fact much stronger than a nascent soul stage cultivator.

"You dare to disrespect not only me but my tribe? I only stood up here to save you from being killed by Lin, But I guess some people don't know when to shut up." Drobo muttered to himself before walking over to the Cultivator.

"What's wrong little man? Do you have something to-" Before the cultivator could finish his sentence he was quickly silenced by Drobo placing his hand against his stomach?

His whole body tensed up and he froze stiff. Before bit by bit and piece by piece, his body and clothes began to disintegrate into a fine powder and formed a neat pile on the floor. The man had died before he even knew what had happened and was now a pile of dust.

Haru looked down at Drobo from the stage and gulped. He knew that he was strong. But didn't expect that he would be strong enough to turn someone to dust from a simple touch.

'I hope someone reminds me never to get on his bad side.' He thought to himself before noticing that there was now a sense of fear in the room. Everyone who had seen it couldn't believe their eyes. To them, the nascent soul stage was still the peak of human strength. And Drobo had killed a man who was strong enough to make people cower in fear from his strength with just a single touch.

"Sorry, But it would be a dishonour to my ancestors if I let him trample over the name of the great dwarven empire like that. He was asking for trouble by overestimating himself." Drobo looked up and said to Haru.

He didn't know how to respond and he too was still kind of shocked by what had just happened.

"Ahem. Well does anyone else have any doubts or concerns that they would like to raise? I have told you all the truth but it is your choice if you choose to follow me into battle.

You can leave here anytime you want to without worrying about being persecuted for it. But do you really want to sit by in your homes and watch as everything you ever cared about is destroyed before your eyes? If they break past our defence then they will soon follow up by coming for the people who remain.

Could you still hold your head up high knowing that you could have done something about it? But instead, you watched on as earth was turned into rubble. I'm not asking for you to lay down your lives in battle. But I am asking for your strength. We are stronger together than we are on our own and that is a fact that all of you should know first hand…

That's all I have to say. It's up to you now." Haru said before turning away and walking back through the doors he had come from. He didn't want to watch people leave. It would feel like all his hard work had gone to waste. But as he stepped out into the corridor he heard footsteps lightly tapping the floor and running towards him.

"Haru!" Meiling's familiar voice called out before her arms quickly wrapped around his waist.

"You looked so cool! It was like something from a movie!" She praised him for the speech he had just made. A few moments later Lao appeared from thin air in the corridor and looked at Haru for a moment.

"It really was inspiring. I can see that your hard work this morning really paid off." Lao said and looked at the sheet of paper that Haru was holding in his hands.

"You really think so?" Haru asked and then held up the sheet of paper for him to look at. The paper was filled with what looked like a rough speech but it had all been scribbled over in frustration.

"You didn't prepare anything you said? I guess it really is true that you must speak from your heart if you want people to trust you." Lao praised him too and then smiled.

"Trust me? I feel like they are all going to run after seeing what Drobo just did." Haru sighed.

"Run? Why would they run? The people in that room are all cultivators. They are proud by nature. And your final conclusion made it so they couldn't run even if they wanted to. How could they openly give up on everything they have worked towards out of fear of death?" Lao replied. He predicted that not even a single person would leave.

"Hm, maybe so. But we just lost a cultivator that could have been of great use for us. I'm kind of disappointed that he couldn't just shut up like everyone else." Haru said with a sad expression.

"Hm… I personally think that that man's death was a good thing. If no one questioned what you were telling them. Then they would seriously underestimate the situation. They would have no idea what they are going up against. But now they know that there is a power greater than theirs that could kill them in a single move. That's something that will help them become stronger." Lao explained. He made a point but Haru was still sceptical but only time would tell.

"Maybe, But I should probably start working on the surprise that I promised everyone who decides to stay," Haru said and then walked out into the courtyard. He needed a lot of open space because he planned to do something that he had never done before. Mass pill production.

He had only refined a maximum of five pills at one time but now he was planning to refine them in batches of thirty to reduce the amount of time it would take to supply all of the cultivators with pills that will help them become stronger within a week.

He first pulled out all of the materials he had collected over the years and piled them up at one side of the yard before sitting down on the other side and taking the exact amount that he needed with his Qi and levitating them in the air. He began to refine by disintegrating the things that needed to be turned into powder by using Kun's flames to extract the moisture and crushing them with his Qi.

He found it tricky at first but as more time passed he quickly got better at controlling his Qi. He then added the correct type of moisture that he needed which was found within the medicinal plants and then formed the pill into little balls before drying them once again with the Phoenix flames.

As he finished the first batch he found himself sweating a little bit. But he pressed on. He wanted to make as many as he could so that he could get the greatest benefit. Minutes turned into hours but by the time nightfall came around he was finished and created a total of one hundred and thirty-six pills that would be used to make the cultivators stronger.

He sighed to himself as he looked at the pile of medicinal herbs that had been reduced to a couple of handfuls at best. It had taken him three years to collect so many and he had planned to use them to make himself stronger in the future. He didn't think that he would have to use them in this way. But he was also glad that he had planned ahead. If he hadn't then the chances of them fighting off the demons would be much slimmer than they were going to be now.

He stood up from his seated position and then began to divide the pills into jade bottles for storage and to make them easier to hand out. Each person would be given two pills and would have to absorb them before the demons attacked.

The pills that he refined were Qi absorbing pills. They were similar to the one that he had given to Hong Xia a few days prior but they were in fact much stronger and would gather Qi for longer and at a faster rate. For someone to get the most out of this pill they would need to go into closed-door cultivation for a few days and that is why he had people gather at the resort. So he could provide them with their own rooms.

After he portioned out the pills he headed back toward the hall where he had held the meeting and went inside. He had expected the number of people to have thinned out quite a lot but that wasn't the case at all. It looked as if more people had gathered as they were all enjoying the food that had been provided to them.

Haru looked around before spotting the old man from the Hong family.

"I hope you don't mind. But I invited a few of the other imperial families here to join us…" He said with a gentle smile.