Glazed Gauze looked disheveled too, tears slipping from her eyes as she stood at a loss. I had no heart to blame them. Even Xia Ruize alone would have been hard to withstand, and with Li Poxiao joining forces with him, it was hardly strange that we had lost the city. So I smiled and said, "Even if the gourd has been taken, they won't harm the immortals inside out of respect for the Buddha behind the monk. I believe that much. We just need to ride Kunpeng after them and take it back."
"Can we really do that...?" Glazed Gauze wiped away her tears. I nodded and said, "Weren't you usually quite stubborn? Why do you look like fruit beaten down by frost now?"
"I'm worried, all right? They're all inside Gourd Immortal City!" Glazed Gauze pouted, pretending to toughen up. Qing Weixin said, "Big Brother Xia, stop teasing us. We don't know what to do anymore. Hurry and take our immortal city back, please?"
After pulling them onto Kunpeng, I had it follow Li Poxiao's fortune. Xia Ruize had continued sealing away his own fortune, but Li Poxiao's trail could still be followed. Besides, this wasn't Kunpeng's first time tracking the man.
Before long, we caught up with Alu, Bao'er, and Old Man Wu. All three looked thoroughly dejected, with barely any magical power left in them. They must have fought through several life-and-death battles to end up in such a sorry state. I smiled and said, "You've worked hard."
"Sigh, we thought those people had been beaten until they were crawling all over the ground by Fellow Daoist. We figured that, at worst, we could hold out until you came back, couldn't we? Who would've thought we wouldn't even last a few exchanges before those juniors beat