"Crane Senior, please stop at the mountain peak ahead."
Seeing that the Crane King was about to fly past his Cave Mansion, Lu Xuan weighed it again and again. That short sentence kept surging to his throat, only to be swallowed back down just as quickly. In the end, he still mustered his courage and spoke carefully.
The tall Spirit Crane let out a clear cry and landed on an open patch halfway up the mountain.
Lu Xuan got down from the Spirit Crane's back, cupped his fists, and bowed. "Many thanks to Crane Senior for escorting this junior home. May I ask whether Senior would be willing to come sit for a while in this junior's Cave Mansion?"
The tall Spirit Crane lightly shook its head, cried once, and strode off.
"Huh, my legs went numb."
After the Spirit Crane's figure disappeared, Lu Xuan had only just taken a step when he felt a wave of numbness in both legs.
Although the Crane King's back was a bit more comfortable than that of an ordinary Spirit Crane, and its speed went without saying—it had brought him back to the Cave Mansion in only a short while—
The pressure brought by Third Grade strength was simply too great. Lu Xuan had stayed on its back without moving an inch, his feet held in an awkward posture the entire way, yet he had not dared shift even half a bit.
"Heh. So what if it's a Third Grade Spirit Beast? Wasn't it still ridden beneath me?"
Lu Xuan sneered and comforted himself.
He walked a few steps, and only then did the numbness in his feet lessen somewhat.
Arriving in front of the Cave Mansion, he opened the Mist Concealing Formation, and the dense white mist encircling the entire Cave Mansion