"Mind if I borrow a spot on your ship for a while?" Lu Xiaotian asked, sweeping his gaze over the few cultivators still shaken with fright. He had fled all the way from Daoist Blood Gourd's ruined island, stopping to rest several times along the way. Daoist Blood Gourd was fighting that clay figurine and should have been too occupied to spare any attention for him. Even so, Lu Xiaotian's wariness toward Golden Core cultivators had reached an unprecedented height. Once the Water-Melting Pearl recovered its function, he would hide beneath the water and travel, repeating the process over and over. He was now at least ten thousand li from that strange island. Along the way, he had avoided several waves of demonic beasts and a few large ships, and had happened to run into this vessel of Qi Refining cultivators.
"Senior, it's our honor that you're willing to grace our ship," Gui Rong and the others said, overjoyed. As long as Lu Xiaotian did not attack them, that was enough. A cultivator like him, who could easily drive back a Golden-Backed Demonic Shark, was unfathomably powerful. The Golden-Backed Demonic Shark was no weakling. They had encountered one once before, and it had taken four or five Foundation Establishment seniors to surround it. That shark had even been slightly smaller than this one. After attacking it for half a day, they had still allowed it to escape. The senior before them did not look very old, yet he had easily driven back a Golden-Backed Demonic Shark all by himself. In the eyes of Qi Refining cultivators like Gui Rong and the others, he was naturally unfathomable.
They were only Qi Refining cultivators. Normally, they could not have invited a Foundation Establishment cultivator like this even if they tried. Hunting low-level