What astonished Lu Xiaotian even more was that Mo Yuyan, Bloodflame, and this Lan Xuan—three cultivators of the Divine Void Realm—had all come here. That alone was surprising enough, but the man in purple-scaled armor with the blue python might even be the once exceedingly elusive Venerable Lord.
Lu Xiaotian wasn't concerned with who the Venerable Lord was. Though this star field was perilous, it also held no shortage of treasures, so it was hardly strange for a Body Integration cultivator to come here. As long as their interests didn't conflict, that was all that mattered.
Of the people in this group, the one who surprised Lu Xiaotian most was the graceful woman surnamed Yan. She was actually Yan Xiaoyu. If he had relied only on her appearance and demeanor, he wouldn't have been so certain. But through the black panther puppet, he hadn't bothered to alter his voice.
The surprise and delight that flashed across Yan Xiaoyu's eyes when she heard his voice lasted only an instant, but how could it escape Lu Xiaotian's notice? Back when Lu Xiaotian was still in the Nascent Soul Realm, he had traveled from Xiang State to the Xiao family's Moshang Shanshui and made a scene there. He had entered the Xiao family with an invitation he obtained from the three Yan siblings. Later, the primordial beast White Jade King Spider in Yan Xiaoyu's possession had helped Lu Xiaotian on numerous occasions. Among other things, it had retrieved several portions of Dragon Essence from a cold pool in the Spirit Ruins Secret Realm, where they had been wrongly identified as something else. Without those portions of Dragon Essence, it wouldn't have been so easy for Xiang Qingcheng, Xiang Kuang, and the others to advance. Nor would Lu Xiaotian's foundation in the Spirit Transformation