"We still need to team up. The two of us are already suppressed as soon as we enter Nameless Canyon. From your description of the canyon and the Dragon Essence, Brother Kuang, without the advantage of favorable terrain, even working together, we might not be able to beat the Dragon Essence. We'll have to find other people and team up," Lu Xiaotian said, looking thoughtful.
"Why do we have to go looking for others? They can come looking for us, can't they?" Xiang Kuang said with a smug grin.
"True. We'll go into Nameless Canyon first and see what's strange about it." Lu Xiaotian nodded, agreeing wholeheartedly with Xiang Kuang's idea. Deep down, he didn't entirely believe the news Zhao Yuandu of the Zhao Household had spread. The only way to learn what was inside Nameless Canyon was to go in and see for himself.
"Exactly." Xiang Kuang opened the wine gourd at his waist and gulped down the spirit wine until not a drop remained. Then he looked at Lu Xiaotian with a chuckle. "You disappeared for decades, and I ran out of spirit wine ages ago. I've had nothing but this gourd left, and I couldn't bring myself to drink it. Now you'll have to replenish my supply."
"Go easy on it from now on. I can't keep you supplied if you drink like that." Lu Xiaotian rolled his eyes.
"I'm not taking your things for free." Xiang Kuang flicked his hand, and a small white jade bottle flew toward Lu Xiaotian.
Lu Xiaotian took the bottle with a puzzled look. But when he opened it, a familiar aura wafted out. It was the demonic infant of Mu Xi, the One-Horned Windhowl Beast!
"Fellow Daoist Lu, it's you! Fellow Daoist Lu, save me!" Mu Xi, trapped inside the