"Don't you want to hear my terms for compensation?" Seeing Lu Xiaotian's expression, Tuoba Chongxiao instead smiled.
"If this is merely a transaction, I don't want to exchange Di Kun for anything. Everyone has things by their side that cannot be traded." Lu Xiaotian drew a breath.
"I never expected an outsider cultivator to be this stubborn. But then again, it's no wonder the Dragon Lion was willing to follow you." Tuoba Chongxiao seemed to be seeing Lu Xiaotian for the first time. He looked him up and down once more, then stepped out of the tent. "Don't resist. I'll take you somewhere."
Lu Xiaotian did as he was told. A surge of blood-astral qi wrapped around him, and as before, his body involuntarily followed Tuoba Chongxiao forward at astonishing speed. The people and objects in the small city retreated at an astonishing pace.
As time passed, the blood-astral qi enveloping Lu Xiaotian grew denser. He could no longer see normally and instinctively wanted to break through its obstruction, but remembering Tuoba Chongxiao's earlier warning, he quickly abandoned the idea. It seemed Tuoba Chongxiao did not want him to see certain things.
Since that was the case, he could only let matters take their course.
About an hour later, Lu Xiaotian felt the other man stop, and the blood-astral force surrounding him dispersed as well. Just as Lu Xiaotian breathed a sigh of relief, immense pressure crushed down from above. Caught completely unprepared, his knees nearly buckled, and he was almost forced directly to the ground. This immense pressure was far more terrifying than the gravity inside the Starfall Cave. The gravity there acted only upon the body, whereas this pressure brought with it an icy, proud majesty that even his spirit could feel.
Yet the aura also seemed somewhat