After Little Fire Crow came out, it let out a string of caws, seemingly blaming Lu Xiaotian for keeping it cooped up too long.
"Enough. Keep watch around us. If you spot any demonic beast or ghost race member you can't handle, warn me immediately." Lu Xiaotian waved his hand weakly. How could he spare any attention for Little Fire Crow's dissatisfaction?
Little Fire Crow's pitch-black eyes rolled as it sized Lu Xiaotian up. Seeing how he had become gaunt as skin stretched over bones, it seemed to understand something. It stopped quarreling with him, circled above his head a few times, then flew into the distance.
Lu Xiaotian breathed a sigh of relief. Little Fire Crow could still be of some use after all.
After having a tremendous amount of his vital blood drained by the Yin-Devouring Ghost Wheel, Lu Xiaotian now looked like a withered corpse.
His injuries could not be healed anytime soon. Trembling, Lu Xiaotian rose to his feet and picked up the storage pouches scattered across the ground—Tuoba Hai's and Xuan Yin's.
Right, there were also the Earth Essence Spirit Lamp and the Yin-Devouring Ghost Wheel lying on the ground. Looking at the fearsome Yin-Devouring Ghost Wheel, Lu Xiaotian hesitated. Whether he would need it in the future or not, it had displayed such immense power this time that it was surely a rare treasure among the ghost race. Xuan Yin simply had not been able to bring out its true strength.
Dragging his weary, exhausted body, Lu Xiaotian did not go far. This place was unsafe, but in his current state, another place might not be much safer. Nor could he travel very far. He picked up a dead branch from the ground and struggled onward for some distance. Among several nearby patches of