"Senior Lu, why aren't you chasing them? You're just letting them get away?" Miao Ruolin quickly changed how she addressed him. The moment she saw the silver-armored woman leading several flying cavalry warriors off into the distance, she asked in confusion.
"Chase them? You go after them." Lu Xiaotian silently rolled his eyes. Still, compared with Liu Jinglei and the others, who had grown timid and cautious after learning his true cultivation, Miao Ruolin seemed rather different. He wasn't about to get angry with Foundation Establishment cultivators over it.
If I could beat them, would I need you to step in? Miao Ruolin grumbled inwardly. Though she found his response somewhat unreasonable, their cultivation and standing were no longer the same, so she couldn't speak as freely as before. The rigid hierarchy imposed by cultivation realms in the cultivation world was not so easily broken.
"Who would have thought that after all these years, Fellow Daoist Lu would not only have successfully advanced to the Golden Core Realm, but would even force the Silver-Faced Rakshasa of the Skyvault Realm to retreat? I'm afraid you'd be hard-pressed to find many Golden Core cultivators across all the great cultivation realms who could match you." Yuan Min's injuries had eased somewhat, and she stepped forward with a smile.
"With Fellow Daoist Lu's aptitude, I imagine it's only a matter of time before you set foot on the great path of the Nascent Soul."
Liu Jinglei, Miao Ruolin, and the others were stunned. Even the Golden Core Realm was an impassable chasm before them, yet Lu Xiaotian, whom they had known for only a day or two and who seemed so easy to get along with, was already close to the threshold of the Nascent Soul Realm! It was truly unbelievable. It wasn't that