Afterward, Lu Xiaotian traveled through the Ancient Buddha Secret Realm, encountering several more patrol squads along the way. He used the same method to capture them and send them into the Green Fruit Barrier.
He gathered some information from them, but it was all much the same. The patrol squad leaders were Daluo Golden Immortals and knew plenty of trivial details, but they knew little about the core secrets of the immortal army.
He got very little out of this way of gathering information, so Lu Xiaotian stopped doing it.
Still, the disappearance of several patrol squads in succession had drawn serious attention from the underlings of the Netherstar Immortal Army.
They searched the surrounding area, and the lockdown was clearly tightened. Every so often, he encountered several search squads supporting one another.
The search was so rigorous that the law-aspect phenomena Lu Xiaotian had transformed into found it genuinely alarming. These search squads alone could not force him out without forming a battle array.
However, Lu Xiaotian soon noticed that as the Netherworld Heavenly Court's search squads combed the area, they planted small green triangular pennants in many places. Starlight shimmered across them, like a vast, profound starry sky.
At first, Lu Xiaotian paid them little mind. But as more and more star pennants appeared in the void, he sensed that they were linking together, and a powerful consciousness was scanning the starry sky through them.
Specks of starlight spread through the void, flowing slowly like a mist of stars. In the blink of an eye, it had covered the entire sky.
"I wonder what great person you are, arriving at my encampment and abducting dozens of my men. Anyone capable of doing that without leaving the slightest trace must be close to my level of cultivation. If you're