Seeing the name of the ghost race's warship, Lu Xiaotian grew suspicious. Then, upon seeing the lifelike mask standing atop the bone banner erected on the ship, he was eighty percent certain that the so-called Sunny-Sky Ghost King was Su Qing. Ever since Su Qing had left without saying goodbye in the Blood-Colored Forbidden Land, she had vanished without a trace. With all the wealth of the Azure-Sky Ghost King that Su Qing had obtained back then, combined with her extraordinary aptitude, advancing to Ghost Kinghood should not have been too difficult if nothing unexpected happened.
The moment Lu Xiaotian saw that warship, he wanted to go over and see whether Su Qing was truly aboard. However, the area where he was had never been the center of the battle. Su Qing's warship moved through the ghost army with the cunning slipperiness of a loach, appearing briefly before vanishing into the heart of the ghost army. After a moment's hesitation, Lu Xiaotian temporarily gave up on going after it. When he turned back, he unexpectedly encountered Cao Xi'er surrounded by three early-stage Ghost Kings. Lu Xiaotian did not want to linger here, so he casually dealt with two of them. The other escaped quickly, decisively sacrificing one arm to save himself; he fled gravely wounded, and Lu Xiaotian could not be bothered to pursue him.
At that moment, Cao Xi'er's eyes held nothing but Lu Xiaotian's figure, so she naturally had even less interest in bothering with the early-stage Ghost King who had fled gravely wounded.
Cao Xi'er had landed on nothing more than a flying warship. Such warships were used by Golden Core cultivators, so letting a Nascent Soul Cultivator like Cao Xi'er stay on one was rather shabby.
"I only advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm recently, so