When he had roughly recounted what had happened, the Red-Faced Ghost Ape wore a wary expression. He had still been roaming this area when he heard about the Ghost Gu Sect's misfortune. The news had startled him, and fearing he might run into the notorious Lu Xiaotian, he had come to the territory of the Underworld-Sinking Worm Mother, an old acquaintance of his.
"What? You mean Alchemy King Lu brought down the entire Ghost Gu Sect all by himself?" Deputy Abyss Master Jiang and the dark-faced young man Ji Ying behind him were dumbstruck. They had been traveling all this time and hadn't run into any Ghost Gu Sect disciples, so they hadn't learned what had happened. Hearing it from the Red-Faced Ghost Ape now, they could hardly believe it. It wasn't that they doubted anyone in the world could be that powerful. It was just especially hard to believe when that person was Lu Xiaotian. It wasn't only because of his strength; Deputy Abyss Master Jiang knew Lu Xiaotian, too. Over the past few centuries, Lu Xiaotian had barely left the Chaotic Azure Ruins. Most of the time, he had devoted himself to cultivation and alchemy in Riftwind Gorge, occasionally going to the Mangqing Plains to guide the Page Stone Clan cultivators.
As the Abyss Hall's only fourth-grade Alchemy King at present, even if trouble arose, Lu Xiaotian would hardly be the one expected to handle it. And in all these years, he hadn't so much as quarreled with a Body-Integration Realm old monster, let alone been known to bully some junior at the Spirit-Void Realm. The people of the Mangqing Plains rarely went looking for trouble, either. Even the Golden Roc, whose bloodlust ran deep, had ventured into dangerous places and fought plenty of opponents over the years,