Seeing that Lu Xiaotian was unwilling to dwell on the matter of Zhao Li, the woman with the wooden hairpin asked no more. After all, her very life had been saved by the other party; surely she could not expect him to help her exact this revenge?
Lu Xiaotian gave the woman with the wooden hairpin two types of spiritual herbs that enhanced physique, having her ingest them before he sat down of his own accord at one end of the azure wind sail to digest everything Zhao Li had just said.
According to Zhao Li, the Zhao family was an ancient lineage with a heritage dating back to primeval times. Throughout the ages, countless branches had multiplied from it; some had perished amidst the vicissitudes of time and calamity, while others had survived intermittently down to the present day. When it was passed down to Zhao Yuanjun, he did not even know which generation it was, yet the ancestors had still handed down some basic illusion arts techniques. However, they required reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm before one could practice them. Zhao Yuanjun's immortal path had been fraught with setbacks, and he had originally thought there was no way to continue practicing the ancestral illusion arts. He had never expected to encounter Lu Xiaotian in Earthflame Mountain, accumulating some capital and strength, and later on, during an adventure, he had slain a sect cultivator to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill, successfully establishing his foundation by sheer luck. Thus, he had set his sights on the family's inherited illusion arts techniques, though the techniques mentioned that practicing the ancestral illusion arts required Starmist Stone.
Connecting this to the illusions generated when the stary-eyed stone fish was attacked—which even he had been unable to discern—as well as the strange phenomenon that