"No. My Junior Sister doesn't seem to know anything. After all, she was only at the Soul Formation Stage back then. What she knows is limited," Lan Xuan guessed.
"Your High Lord sent her to Yuan Spirit City because his cultivation base was low. Do you think a Divine Illusionary Realm cultivator would be able to hide it from others?" The black-armored man snorted.
"Perhaps if we capture my Junior Sister and interrogate her, we'll know the reason," Lan Xuan said tentatively.
"I want to, but forget it. There's nothing for you to do here." The black-armored man waved his hand.
"Junior will take his leave." Lan Xuan nodded and cupped his hands at the black-armored man. Then, he turned into a streak of light and disappeared into the sky. Just as the black-armored man was about to leave, he suddenly heard a voice transmission.
"It's been a few years since we last met. I didn't expect Senior to have recovered to such an extent. Congratulations."
"Little Friend Lu!" The black-armored man was stunned. He looked around and was secretly shocked. If an ordinary Body Integration Stage expert approached, he would have noticed. It had only been six or seven years since he separated from Lu Xiaotian. In the blink of an eye, Lu Xiaotian had improved to such an extent. Others might not know, but he knew very well that Lu Xiaotian had fought the Thousand Sound Temple and severely injured Thunder Monk Ming'E. If it weren't for his Nine Rings Lightning Guiding Needle, Lu Xiaotian wouldn't have been a match for Thunder Monk Ming'E. "Since you're here, why don't you show yourself?" After his shock, the black-armored man relaxed. He didn't have any enmity with Lu Xiaotian and they got along well before. Naturally, he didn't need to be too afraid of Lu Xiaotian.
"Senior, it seems that your control over your new body isn't perfect." Lu Xiaotian strode through the air. In the blink of an eye, he had crossed the mountain and arrived in front of the black-armored man. This black-armored man was the Fire Cloud Monster that only had a pair of eyes left.
"It's all because Little Friend Lu protected Yun Xiaoqi. This caused this old man's body to be unable to absorb enough demonic fire. There are some flaws," the Fire Cloud Monster said faintly. The Fire Cloud Monster wasn't very happy about Lu Xiaotian's decision to protect Yun Xiaoqi.
"Back then, I also needed to borrow power to enter the Thousand Sound Temple. I didn't want my life to be full of twists and turns. Please forgive me, Senior. " Lu Xiaotian chuckled and did not dwell on the matter. Back then, the Fire Cloud Monster had proposed some conditions to him, but Lu Xiaotian had rejected them all. Lu Xiaotian wouldn't have bothered if it had been an ordinary person. Facts had proven that doing good deeds in one's life would always lead to good karma. If he had not saved Yun Xiaoqi, he would have had to pay a heavy price to escape from the encirclement of Wu Changlian and the Blood Weeping Mosquito Demon.
"Forget it. It's all in the past. There's no point in bringing it up now." The Fire Cloud Monster waved his hand and looked at Lu Xiaotian again. "I didn't expect that in just a few years, Little Friend Lu's strength would improve so much. You've even reached the legendary level of a fourth-grade Elixir King. Congratulations."
"I was just lucky. I wonder why Senior is investigating Yuan Spirit City?" Lu Xiaotian asked.
"Since you've already heard, you should know that I haven't made any progress. What I'm after is nothing more than to recover as soon as possible. As for how much of my previous strength I can recover, that'll depend on luck. It's not convenient for me to reveal anything else to you for the time being. " The Fire Cloud Monster shook his head, then gave Lu Xiaotian a meaningful look. "What I can remind you of is to keep your distance from Yuan Spirit City as much as possible. Everything related to Yuan Spirit City is as much as possible."
"Why won't Senior say it?" Lu Xiaotian frowned. Yuan Spirit City was already in ruins and had been occupied by several allied demon tribes. He wasn't even in Yuan Spirit City, so how was he supposed to keep his distance? If it was an ordinary person who said this, Lu Xiaotian wouldn't have cared. But this Fire Cloud Monster was an old monster whose realm had long surpassed the Body Integration realm. How could Lu Xiaotian not take his words seriously?
"I can't say it, I can't say it." The Fire Cloud Monster shook his head. "Even at my peak, I would still be somewhat wary of you, much less now. I've said enough for today. Little Friend Lu, goodbye. Remember the promise you made to me. "
With that, the Fire Cloud Monster disappeared from the mountain ridge, soaring into the distance. Leaving behind a puzzled Lu Xiaotian.
Lu Xiaotian had a thoughtful look on his face. Back then, before he had arrived in this world, in the Spiritual Mound Secret Realm, Luo Zhongting and the Snow Witch Dongfang Yi seemed to have said something similar. Clearly, they were very wary of the true master behind the sword embryo. Now that he had met the Fire Cloud Monster again, it was clear that the Fire Cloud Monster didn't want to provoke the person behind the sword embryo either. Lu Xiaotian speculated that if he hadn't broken through to become a Level Four Pill King, it was very likely that he would be of great use to the Fire Cloud Monster in the future. It was hard to say if the Fire Cloud Monster would have warned him like this. But from another perspective, it could also prove that the inheritance Luo Zhongting and Dongfang Yi had received was no small matter. He wondered how these old friends were doing after so many years.
Shaking his head, Lu Xiaotian returned to Riftwind Gorge with these unresolved doubts.
The Riftwind Gorge was filled with rolling yellow sand all year round. Within a radius of several hundred kilometers, twelve pillars of mystical fire interweaved day and night. The alchemy cauldron in the alchemy room rarely stopped for a rest. Lu Xiaotian's cultivation had consumed a huge amount of energy, such as improving his alchemy skills, cultivating the Soul Fusion Technique, and the Soul Tempering Technique. Even for an ordinary Body Integration Stage cultivator, it was an astronomical figure. Only someone like Lu Xiaotian, who had obtained Pill King Li's inheritance and could control several puppets to refine pills at the same time, and whose refining speed was far superior to others, could maintain such an enormous expenditure.
In the blink of an eye, several hundred years had passed in the Riftwind Gorge. Many things had happened during these several hundred years. Back then, Xiong Kun had already left Chaotic Azure Ruins with the Golden Magnetic Liquid from Lu Xiaotian. His whereabouts were unknown, and there were no rumors of his success or failure in his ascension.
The poison in Jin Yu's body had long been removed. After Ding Han's poison was removed and his cultivation recovered, he left the Yao Realm of Chaos and returned to the Buddhist Sect. Jin Yu remained in the Riftwind Gorge to cultivate. From time to time, he and Hong Yue would travel back and forth between the Riftwind Gorge and the Lost Verdant Plains. Hong Yue, Ba Li, Tuo Qian, and the others of the Stone Tribe all ascended to the Divine Illusionary Realm.
As for Yu Zimo, more than a hundred years ago, Nan Chendu had gone on a long journey to Flying Cloud City. Lu Xiaotian had asked Nan Chendu to bring Yu Zimo along. Along with Yu Zimo was the single-horned goat demon who had joined them later on, as well as Ren Qingxu's family of three. In this way, Yu Zimo, who was already in the Divine Illusionary Realm, also had a peak Divine Illusionary Realm Six-Armed Golden Centipede Puppet. With the help of the Single-Horned Goat Demon and Ren Qingxu's family, he could immediately form a force when he returned to Flying Cloud City. Later, in the letter Yu Zimo sent back, Yu Zimo gained a firm foothold in Flying Cloud City, got in touch with a few old friends of Zhu Jinfu, and found He Hu and Du Ming. It could be said that one of Lu Xiaotian's worries had been resolved.
As for Ren Qingxu's family of three Divine Illusionary Realm cultivators, they could not be of much help in the Lost Verdant Plains. After all, after the Lost Verdant Plains, Ba Li, Tuo Qian, and the rest of the talented Stone Tribe ascended to the Divine Illusionary Realm, their ability to guide the Stone Tribe's cultivation was relatively limited.
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