The Blood-crazed Eel's escape was remarkably clever. The moment it sensed something was wrong, it immediately withdrew. Then the thirteen blood beads shattered, releasing a thick haze of blood that badly disrupted Lu Xiaotian's spiritual sense and vision.
By the time Lu Xiaotian tried to pursue it, the Blood-crazed Eel had already fled far away.
"I suppose that fellow wasn't destined to die just yet." Lu Xiaotian watched the blood-red haze gradually dissipate in the seawater, without the slightest trace of regret in his eyes. A powerhouse like that had both strength and cunning. It would probably find a much broader world beyond these confines. Forcing it into the Green Fruit Barrier might not have been good for its cultivation.
Moreover, the Blood-crazed Eel was violent by nature, and the blood-law profundities it cultivated leaned in that direction. Inside the Green Fruit Barrier, it might end up like Yazi, forced to suppress its urge to kill. If so, it would likely struggle to advance any further. Though the profundities of the blood law were by no means limited to savagery, every cultivator's starting point and circumstances were different.
A natural source of chaos like the Blood-crazed Eel might not be a bad thing to leave outside, stirring up trouble now and then. Otherwise, even if Lu Xiaotian couldn't track it with the portion of his Primordial Spirit currently available to him, he had more than enough means to find it by bringing a sufficient portion of his Primordial Spirit to bear—even if the Blood-crazed Eel had already escaped some distance.
The Dragon General remained trapped within the giant Eight Trigrams formation. The Blood-crazed Eel's attack had given him a glimmer of hope. Even if he couldn't defeat it, he could at least seize the chance to escape. If he couldn't