"Bad news, someone's coming." Lu Xiaotian had only just gotten his hands on the Silver-Winged Centipede puppet when he sensed several auras approaching from different directions. Though it was inconvenient to act at the moment, even cultivators at the Body Integration Realm could not escape his awareness.
The Silver-Winged Centipede puppet turned into a streak of light and, together with the Star Cocoon Sun Snail, was put back into Lu Xiaotian's Sumeru Ring.
The auras were drawing closer, and Lu Xiaotian could not get away. Fortunately, the Realm-Breaking Insect was small and easy to conceal. Unruffled, Lu Xiaotian burrowed into a relatively dense patch of low-grade spirit herbs and was underground in the blink of an eye. When the auras drew within a certain distance, the Realm-Breaking Insect lay motionless in the dirt, like a dead thing.
"What happened?" Hao Zhijie and Hai Qing arrived, both looking bewildered.
"How should I know?" Hai Qing shrugged.
Across from them, two other cultivators were equally perplexed. They wore spirit armor, their faces blurred beyond recognition, and sword intent surged around them.
"Let's wait a while longer. Maybe the Star Cocoon Crystal Snail won't appear so soon." Hao Zhijie pondered for a moment. He knew little about the Star Cocoon Crystal Snail himself. After finally receiving orders to come here, they had ended up chasing a false lead. It was no easy task to navigate this place, riddled with restrictions. Without the treasure bestowed on them by that mighty cultivator, even cultivators at their level would have been hard-pressed to take a single step. As a forbidden ground of the Star Palace in ages past, this place had earned its fearsome reputation.
Hidden in the dirt, the Realm-Breaking Insect completely suppressed its aura, like a dead thing. It drew all its spiritual sense