"Very well, little friend. Do as you please. No one here will interfere with you." Emperor Qinling smiled.
Lu Xiaotian nodded, pondering a way to escape. On the surface, Emperor Qinling's attitude toward him seemed fairly amicable, but anyone with discerning eyes could see that it was only because Lu Xiaotian still had some value to him.
That gray-clothed woman, the Flame-Patterned Ghost Buddha—he feared neither of them would let him off easily. Under these circumstances, even releasing the Black Dragon would not solve much.
From the situation before him, the key to the problem still seemed to lie with the Heart of the Earth Palace.
With several Golden Immortal-level mighty figures watching him, Lu Xiaotian naturally would not try any tricks and end up exhausting himself for nothing. He immediately sat down cross-legged, sinking a considerable portion of his Primordial Spirit into the Earthflame Crystal Core and attempting to sense the Heart of the Earth Palace's exact location through it.
"This boy has already established some kind of connection with the Heart of the Earth Palace. Previously, when the Heart of the Earth Palace appeared, it was because I attacked him." The gray-clothed woman did not simply wait for the result, but spoke in an unhurried manner.
"If that's the case, why aren't you attacking him now?" the Flame-Patterned Ghost Buddha asked maliciously.
"We are extremely close to the Heart of the Earth Palace. As outsiders, all of us are suppressed to some degree by this place's earth-element laws, while this man can already draw on the Heart of the Earth Palace's aid to some extent. Any one of us alone might not be able to subdue this fellow of unknown origins." The gray-clothed woman continued unhurriedly, "We all came for the power of the laws contained within the