"My true form didn't say what the matter was before he left, or when he would return. I assume there's something important he needs to take care of." Lu Xiaotian was already hundreds of miles away. Even his illusory spirit clone could only communicate with his true form within a range of seventeen hundred miles. At this distance, it was effectively an independent Primordial Spirit, with no way of knowing what his true form was doing. But even if it did know, it wouldn't tell Nan Chendu and the others.
"Should we go find Pig Seven and ask how things are going for them at the Ghost Gu Sect?" the dark-faced young man Ji Ying asked after they left Bone-Splitting Gorge.
"I doubt that would help. Brother Lu is at least a guest elder of our Abyss Hall, but Pig Seven has nothing to do with the Hall. He's always listened only to Brother Lu. If even Brother Lu's clone wouldn't tell us anything, we won't get any answers from Pig Seven either." Nan Chendu shook his head. He had learned about the upheaval at the Ghost Gu Sect from the two deputy hall masters, Jiang and the other. He had come to ask what was going on and see how Lu Xiaotian was faring. Who would have thought he wouldn't even run into him?
"At a time like this, Pill King Lu is acting far too much on his own. Even the plan the Abyss Hall had already settled on will have to be adjusted again," Ji Ying said with a frown.
"Uncle Nan, can't you give him a word of advice?"
"Young Hall Master, Lu Xiaotian is only a guest elder of our Abyss Hall, and he isn't bound by many restrictions. If he were merely a fourth-grade