So it really was as he'd expected. Lu Xiaotian furrowed his brow. The arrival of the Yuxuan Immortal Army had been inevitable; it had merely come a step later than the Mingluo Immortal Army. But it seemed the Yuxuan Immortal Army had fared no better. The Mingluo Immortal Army had run straight into the methods of Ancient Buddha Burning Cloud. They had arrived a little too early and gained not the slightest advantage—instead, they had suffered considerable losses. Perhaps the only lesson they'd learned was that they discovered the powerful presence inside this secret realm before the Yuxuan Immortal Army did, and called upon the Nethersea Bowl of the Pure Sea Immortal Lord well in advance. That was what had stemmed their decline to some extent.
Looking at things now, the swarm of thunder-sand crystal ants he'd encountered earlier and the four-winged locusts he'd just come across might well be another of Ancient Buddha Burning Cloud's methods.
Just what was Ancient Buddha Burning Cloud plotting? Lu Xiaotian couldn't figure it out for the moment. But he no longer wanted to spend too much thought on him. Let him be as strong as he liked. Even if this really was Ancient Buddha Burning Cloud's doing, he wouldn't have set up such a grand spectacle for Lu Xiaotian's sake. If so, then the ones who needed to worry were the Yuxuan and Mingluo Heavenly Courts' immortal armies. What did it matter to Lu Xiaotian how many of them were killed or wounded?
What Lu Xiaotian truly needed now was to seize the opportunity amid the chaos and gather as much profit for himself as he could.
The more Ancient Buddha Burning Cloud stirred things up, the more seriously the Mingluo and Yuxuan Heavenly Courts would take him. No matter how far-reaching Ancient