In truth, Patriarch Kongji had sent only a clone here, and Lu Xiaotian was also using a projection clone. The gap between them was not as great as it had seemed.
The key was that Lu Xiaotian had laid out his plans in the Realm of Forgotten Sorrows beforehand, giving him the home-field advantage.
At the same time, as Lu Xiaotian's cultivation improved, he had made a new breakthrough in his use of projection clones.
He could control how explosively their power surged, but only by consuming the projection clone in the process. The greater the power unleashed, the shorter the clone lasted.
Patriarch Kongji's clone had no advantage in any respect, and then Lu Xiaotian had outmaneuvered him again.
Yuan Qing, Yuan Gang, and the others had barely been able to make use of their strength before Lu Xiaotian split them apart.
If Patriarch Kongji had realized Lu Xiaotian's intentions sooner, and kept his connection with the four Primordial Spirit-body powerhouses—Yuan Qing and the others—close enough, then Lu Xiaotian's projection clone would indeed have been unable to do anything to them.
But it had already happened. There was no room for such what-ifs anymore.
"Patriarch Kongji's clone has already fallen in battle. You were so eager to hunt down Mu Xia before. Now it's your turn." Lu Xiaotian's projection looked leisurely at Yuan Qing and the other three.
"A man may be killed, but never humiliated. The Eastern Pill Saint's strength is indeed unmatched across several realms, but we are no longer people you can trample at will. At worst, we die."
Yuan Qing forced down his fear of Lu Xiaotian and spoke coldly. Having witnessed Lu Xiaotian's world-grasping methods, he knew full well that against an enemy like this, in the Realm of Forgotten Sorrows, they had no