"It seems the crystal stone puppets in this land of wind and sand can't track us through the blood mist inside their bodies." After encountering several waves of crystal stone puppets in succession, Lu Xiaotian had found no sign of purposeful searching in their movements, and he quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Whenever Purpleleaf Zhenwu discovered more than three crystal stone puppets, Lu Xiaotian would take the initiative to avoid them. If there were three or fewer, Lu Xiaotian would naturally join forces with Yue Yu, Lang Du, and the others to kill them.
As time passed, the rhomboid crystals Lu Xiaotian obtained steadily increased. Moreover, during his ceaseless cultivation, Lu Xiaotian discovered that absorbing dragon essence did not hinder him from absorbing the pure spiritual power within the rhomboid crystals. This caused his progress in body cultivation to become astonishingly rapid.
Even during their clashes with the crystal stone puppets, outsiders like Lang Du and Yue Yu could almost see Lu Xiaotian's improvement. They had noticed that, aside from the first time Lu Xiaotian killed a crystal stone puppet—when he had brutally torn off its head in one move—he seemed to have used some kind of astonishingly powerful divine ability, making his aura markedly wilder and more overbearing than usual.
In ordinary spell battles, however, he lacked that kind of imposing momentum. Killing the crystal stone puppets often still required a fierce struggle, but the duration of those fights kept shortening. In other words, the time Lu Xiaotian needed to kill crystal stone puppets of equal strength was constantly decreasing.
"We've been fighting these crystal stone puppets for so long. I imagine you've gained enough benefits by now. Shouldn't we leave as soon as possible?" Lu Xiaotian had been constantly gaining advantages, while aside from recovering slightly, Lang