The last time he was at the immortal army camp in the Mukun Immortal Domain, Lu Xiaotian had used Zhu Shilin's lackeys to intercept the information Zhu Shilin had gone to such lengths to obtain. Lu Xiaotian had originally thought he could keep hiding behind the other man and let Zhu Shilin blaze the trail for him. He hadn't expected Zhu Shilin to learn his lesson after taking a loss and realize that someone had been getting ahead of him.
What was more, Zhu Shilin had used this method to follow him all the way here. Lu Xiaotian thought back over everything that had happened and found no trace of any slipup on his part. He had no idea how Zhu Shilin had tracked him here. Perhaps the other man only suspected something and wasn't certain, but managing even that was no small feat.
Previously, Lu Xiaotian hadn't thought much of him. After all, he had already captured Zhu Shilin alive once. And now that he had cultivated a Dragon Pearl, although he couldn't conveniently use his dragon essence, his strength had completely surpassed Zhu Shilin's, making the man seem even less significant in his eyes. Still, Zhu Shilin had followed the trail he and Xiang Qingcheng had left all the way here without Lu Xiaotian noticing a thing. Clearly, Zhu Shilin was quite skilled at concealing his aura and tracking others.
The two of them traveled side by side toward the next thunder domain, flying through the air. Lu Xiaotian had recently made a breakthrough in his dragon essence and cultivated a Dragon Pearl. Through the indistinct portal within it, he had sensed an inexplicable age-old desolation and sorrow. At the same time, he seemed to feel something indescribable toward this Immortal Realm, permeated with immortal energy. It was