The area was shrouded in clouds and mist, but even the clouds and mist in the void were tinged with blood. The bodies of green-scaled, one-horned beasts lay in heaps all around. Lou Yikong, Fu Lianyue, and the siblings Wen Tingfeng and Wen Tingyu were sprawled on the ground, gasping for breath.
They exchanged smiles, then looked at Lu Xiaotian with admiration. "We really owe this one to Alchemy Saint Dongfang. Without you, the four of us could've died two or three times over."
"We're all in the same boat. There's no need to be so polite. Without you, I'd have had a hard time escaping on my own, too."
Lu Xiaotian shook his head, still frowning as he surveyed the area. Only after he was certain no other green-scaled, one-horned beasts were lurking nearby did he finally sit cross-legged, breathing a sigh of relief.
Earlier, Lu Xiaotian had been refining his fifth batch of pills in the middle of the Twelve Ice Ridge Snow Pools. When the Golden Immortal experts of the Blazing Flame Tribe attacked, he had naturally led Lou Yikong, Fu Lianyue, and the Wen siblings through the passage they had built in advance to escape. But the Blazing Flame Tribe's Golden Immortals were no pushovers. Seeing Lu Xiaotian and the others dash into the teleportation passage and seal it, the furious experts of the Blazing Flame Tribe attacked it with their great powers, causing it to warp. Lu Xiaotian had expected them to be transported to the Ice Thunder Hall near the Great Sun Immortal Sect.
But the passage had warped under the attack, throwing the five of them off course. They wound up on a floating island thick with vines, surrounded not only by lush immortal vines but also by great numbers of green-scaled, one-horned