"Since that's the case, I, Hu Xiuyi, would also like to see what Fellow Daoist Lu can do." Hu Xiuyi frowned. He had originally thought he would get to compete alongside Guo Jingyu again and show off his air as an expert. Now, though, his opponent was a man, and from the way Guo Jingyu looked at him, she clearly thought more highly of this silver-haired man surnamed Lu. Hu Xiuyi was all the more displeased. He resolved to show this silver-haired brat just how formidable he was!
"All right. We'll leave this place to the two Pill Kings. Let's each take our people and retreat a ways. If so many of us stay here too long, we might startle the demon kun from its sweet dreams, and then we'll be in for a real mess," Zhu Jinfu said once they had reached an agreement.
"Just as it should be." Yu Zimo nodded, then drifted back with Guo Jingyu, who could barely contain her laughter, Cui Liu, and the others. Zhu Jinfu and his companions retreated at the same time, each keeping a distance of over a thousand zhang from Lu Xiaotian and Hu Xiuyi.
"Fellow Daoist Lu, you may go first." With people from both sides watching, Hu Xiuyi made a courteous gesture of invitation.
"No, you go first. Please, you go first." Since the other man was being courteous, Lu Xiaotian couldn't let himself be impolite.
"You go ahead," Hu Xiuyi said again.
"Giggle." In the distance, Guo Jingyu, Cui Liu, and the others could no longer hold back and laughed until their bodies trembled like flowers in the breeze.
"All right, then I won't stand on ceremony." After the two had deferred to each other for a while, Lu Xiaotian could no longer refuse. He first dug