Everyone inside the Green Fruit Barrier knew how dangerous it was to follow Lu Xiaotian. Huo Xiao didn't worship Lu Xiaotian as a god like the Barrier's native inhabitants did, but neither did he fear making enemies of the people of the Immortal Realm.
He came from the Demon Realm and had little fondness for the Immortal Realm. He also felt little attachment to the Demon Realm. To him, he was willing to follow anyone who could keep opening doors for his advancement and whose character he liked.
Luo Qing and Lu Wushuang were both women, and Huo Xiao wasn't willing to keep making a living under two women.
He liked Lu Xiaotian not only because Lu Xiaotian was stronger than he was. More importantly, Lu Xiaotian had fought his way to the present under the assault of several great Heavenly Courts in the Immortal Realm, and had also carved a path of blood through the Demon Realm. He had accomplished more than Huo Xiao could even imagine.
Such a feat couldn't be replicated, and Huo Xiao could hardly imagine what he himself would have done in the same circumstances.
With his temperament, he would never have bowed to the Heavenly Courts either. But he would probably have been wiped out by them long ago. How could he have survived to this day, steadily improving his cultivation and even gathering such a force inside the Green Fruit Barrier?
Huo Xiao admired people like that. Gu Xueqin had been with Lu Xiaotian longer than he had, but in Huo Xiao's eyes, she was far more calculating.
If she hadn't been swept along by the tide of events, or hoped to cultivate a Primordial Spirit body under Lu Xiaotian before making other plans, she probably wouldn't have wanted to get involved with