Ye Ziyu nodded and asked no more questions, simply following close behind Lu Xiaotian as they flew toward the dense grass in the distance. Following Lu Xiaotian's instructions, Ye Ziyu raised her hand, and a slash of Sword Qi cut straight into the ground, boring furiously forward underground. Lu Xiaotian then waved his hand, green light flashing in his palm. The azure gauze curtain transformed into a green light screen that completely covered the two of them. In the blink of an eye, it merged with the distant grass, leaving no way for the naked eye or divine sense to identify their exact location.
"What is Big Brother Lu trying to do?" Ye Ziyu had never doubted Lu Xiaotian in the slightest. Whatever he asked her to do, she did. But after finishing the task, she could not help asking.
"One of my spirit pets escaped from me. I never expected it to break through to the Composite Body Stage as well—and to run into it here. That truly was beyond my expectations." Several complicated emotions flickered in Lu Xiaotian's eyes. The one moving underground was Purpleleaf Zhenwu, whom he had been separated from for several centuries—or rather, it was no longer the same Purpleleaf Zhenwu as before. If his Primordial Spirit had not grown so powerful, and if he had not been so intimately familiar with Purpleleaf Zhenwu's aura, he would never have noticed that Purpleleaf Zhenwu intended to pass beneath the Star River, avoid those two-headed monsters, and sneak to the opposite bank.
Sure enough, once Ye Ziyu's Sword Qi cut into the earth, it happened to block Purpleleaf Zhenwu's path. A flash of purple-green radiance burst forth, and a young man in a green robe emerged from underground. His features were handsome and refined, though the three