"Since this identity can't be revealed, why show your dragon identity now? Or has your identity already been exposed in Nine Central City?" After receiving Lu Xiaotian's reply, Yan Ji felt even more incredulous.
"My cultivation broke through, and I can no longer suppress it. Even after returning to human form, I can't suppress the fluctuations of dragon qi in my body." Lu Xiaotian sounded rather helpless.
"When you received my warning just now, you must have recognized who I was. So, are you planning to help that Di Xiao Demon Peng deal with me? Do you think you no longer need to be under my thumb?" Yan Ji looked at Lu Xiaotian with a faint, teasing smile.
"In my current state, what difference does it make whether I'm under your thumb or not? I only promised Di Xiao Demon Peng I'd help him break the restriction. I also wanted to see what was so extraordinary about the esoteric Buddhist restriction. Somehow, I ended up here. I never said I'd attack you, Senior."
Lu Xiaotian smiled, then secretly studied Yan Ji. He had personally come through the Stone Buddha Formation, so he understood it better than anyone. As far as he knew, unless someone was powerful enough to break through the formation's limits by force, or—as he had—gained its recognition, appearing here out of nowhere would be no easy feat.
Yet Yan Ji had appeared here. At her full strength, she might have been able to break through the Stone Buddha Formation; she was powerful enough to make even Venerable Wolf Yingtian and the others wary. But her strength had yet to recover, so how could she have broken through it? That left only one possibility: Yan Ji, too, had gained the formation's recognition.
Lu Xiaotian was greatly perplexed. Though