The three other Elders were unaware of the action of their brother. Their eyelids were since long shut down, and their minds entirely focused on directing the energy in their meridians toward the sea of energy in their Dantians. The pain that traversed their minds and bodies was nearly enough to make them fall out of the realm of sanity.
Visions of carnage assaulted their minds, and the boiling life essence in their body was nearing the brink of extinction.
The process of this breakthrough had been sold to them by the golden elder as being nearly perfect. But now they couldn't even regret beginning it as even a moment of inattention could end the little life in them.
But even in that state, the golden family elder managed to move his limbs. He willingly threw the dozens of pills in his hand down his throat.