Lu Xiaotian did not return to his original spot. After traveling more than ten li, he followed the pottery figurine's example and dug a cave at the bottom of a stream. He set up a simple formation outside. With the stream blocking the entrance and the formation's restrictions as well, even a Golden Core cultivator would have difficulty detecting it. Digging out a simple cave would not take him long.
After sealing the entrance, Lu Xiaotian's previously calm gaze darkened. Cooperating with the pottery figurine had been a move born of necessity. After all, he was unfamiliar with this place, and with Golden Core cultivators here, he dared not act recklessly. The mine slaves knew little more about the situation than he did. The Qi Refining overseers were too weak to know much, either. The Foundation Establishment cultivators, on the other hand, ought to know some inside information. But those Foundation Establishment foremen were not easy targets. There were very few Foundation Establishment cultivators, and making a move against one would alert the others. If they conducted a sweeping search, he might not be able to stay hidden.
As for the pottery figurine, it was stronger than him and intimately familiar with this place. It even knew the secret of the Golden Core cultivator here, Daoist Blood Gourd. Clearly, there was more to it than met the eye. After all, a cultivator's weaknesses might not even be known to their closest kin. Yet the pottery figurine had once been at the bottom of Silent Star Lake. Even if it had come here as soon as it escaped, it had only spent a few years here longer than he had. How had it learned so many secrets? Did it have someone close to Daoist Blood Gourd, or had it known him