Besides, Pill King City had inherited a city-protecting grand formation that had stood for tens of thousands of years. Even Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators did not dare cause trouble here; being suppressed was an entirely ordinary outcome. Even if Old Ancestor Han Ming knew Lu Xiaotian was in Pill King City, there was nothing he could do about him.
Another thing that attracted Lu Xiaotian, apart from the convenience of alchemy in Pill King City, was the exceptionally abundant spiritual energy here. It was also an excellent place for cultivation, or it would not have drawn so many Nascent Soul Cultivators. Lu Xiaotian himself did not place much importance on whether spiritual energy was abundant, but places with richer spiritual energy also tended to have more demonic beasts in the surrounding seas. In particular, for over ten thousand years, large numbers of alchemists had continually refined pills in Pill King City, causing the waters around the city to radiate the scent of spiritual pills and enticing many demonic beasts to flock there.
Pill King City stood in a location surrounded, within a radius of more than a million li, by over a hundred sects. Ordinary Demon Cultivators could not possibly make it deep into this core region of the Blue Demon Sea cultivators' territory. The occasional stragglers that slipped through the net would also be jointly hunted down by the Nascent Soul ancestors of Pill King City. Those Demon Cultivators were highly intelligent as well and would not venture so deep into such a place.
The alchemists of Pill King City also needed to cultivate and battle demonic beasts. As for the various demonic beasts below the level of Demon Cultivators, most of these Nascent Soul ancestors adopted an attitude of turning a blind eye.
Lu Xiaotian cultivated the