The Qin family had once been one of the most prominent immortal armies in the Huangyi Immortal Domain. But after losing Qin Ruonan, Qin Gang, and several other experts at the Profound Immortal realm, along with tens of thousands of its direct-line troops on the Heavenly Mulberry Wasteland, the family's power had naturally been weakened considerably.
Although the Qin family's pillars were still standing, Qin Yan had already begun secluding herself to break through to the third-grade Pill Sage realm. Yet even if she succeeded, a third-grade Pill Sage still could not compare with Lu Xiaotian, who had already refined a pill spirit—not by a long shot.
Lu Xiaotian already had the strength of a third-grade Pill Sage. He merely needed to go through the formalities at the Heavenly Pill Palace to have his status confirmed. In Shen Tufeng's eyes, someone like Lu Xiaotian was far more worth winning over: he was several notches stronger than Shen Tufeng himself, might even have advanced to the Heavenly Immortal realm, and had a bright future ahead. After all, the Qin family's immortal army was just that—a family. To Shen Tufeng, the son of the lord of Tianluo City, even a family like that did not carry much weight. Lu Xiaotian, on the other hand, had greater potential.
The two sides had just fought, and now Lu Xiaotian had been brought among an immortal army hostile to him. It was only natural that he might suspect them of ill intentions. Chao Jianhun's attempt to make things difficult for Lu Xiaotian was, for Shen Tufeng, a rare opportunity.
At Shen Tufeng's intervention, Chao Jianhun's expression turned extremely grim. "Fellow Daoist Shentu, are tens of thousands of Qin family troops to die without anyone ever learning the truth?"
"Do you think the disappearance of tens