Perfected Person Taiqing and Zhao Yuankong carefully entered the area around the Thirty-Six Altars of Tianmu. Along the way, they left behind numerous spatial markers so that reinforcements could find their way there later.
Lu Xiaotian frowned slightly, but did not destroy their markers. If the experts from the Four Heavenly Courts came straight here, that would still be better than heading to the Grand Firmament Dragon-Pattern Pure Heaven Array.
At least he could keep them tied up here. And if they resorted to this sort of piecemeal tactic, Lu Xiaotian had no objection to picking them off one by one.
Seeing the two venture deeper, Lu Xiaotian smiled calmly. Reinforcements from the Heavenly Court had yet to arrive, but with the pair entering an area directly under his control, they would be unable to escape, barring the unexpected.
As for the three Demon Realm experts behind them, they had never been on the same side as Perfected Person Taiqing and Zhao Yuankong. The odds of their joining forces with the pair were slim.
"What's going on? I feel like something's off about the aura here." Zhao Yuankong had followed the dragon aura here, but after searching the vicinity again and again without finding anything, he couldn't help feeling puzzled.
Perfected Person Taiqing's expression also changed. Since arriving here, the indications on the Dragon-Seeking Bagua Compass had been growing stronger and weaker, coming and going. He had nearly begun to think the object in his hands had gone out of control.
But what struck him as even more eerie was that he seemed to sense an aura similar to that of the Heavenly Punishment Palace.
A foreboding feeling rose in Perfected Person Taiqing's heart.
"Are you going to say something or not? Isn't your Dragon-Seeking Office supposed to be good