"We're fine. The meteorites here can't threaten me," Little White Hound Huodou quickly sent back.
"Good. Don't come too close for now." Hearing that Little White Hound Huodou sounded neither tense nor strained, Lu Xiaotian felt much more at ease. He then turned his attention to the others. As the meteorites grew more violent, the three Celestial Immortals who had originally blocked his path no longer had the time to fight him. Each struggled to protect himself against the barrage. Even Xu Jianfeng, the strongest among them, had slowed down.
Boom! Boom! A vast number of meteorites hurtled toward him. Lu Xiaotian controlled the Gan Feng Five-Spirit Diagram to defend him with all its might. The giant axes of the Gan Feng spirit puppets swung in turn, sometimes bracing together as immortal light joined to form a seal and block the incoming meteorites.
"Something's wrong. We need to retreat!" Xu Jianfei slashed apart several meteorites rushing toward them and shouted to the other three.
"Go!" The other three Celestial Immortals also turned back. The fearsome reputation of the Chaotic Star Domain had been built on the bloody lessons of countless lives—it wasn't some rumor outsiders had made up. Though Chu Zhaoyang, Fu Lianyue, and Lou Yikong had sent them to pursue Huodou and the Three-Legged Golden Crow, they had already fought their way in. That didn't mean they were willing to die for the mission. Realizing how dangerous the path ahead was, Xu Jianfei and the others no longer wanted to take the risk.
Lu Xiaotian did nothing to stop the four Celestial Immortals from retreating. In truth, he no longer needed to. The meteorites were already crashing down like a storm, their strange, unpredictable flames and immense force leaving even Lu Xiaotian—who had the Gan Feng Five-Spirit Diagram—to do