Sensing the gaze from below, Ji Yuan willed the Ice Flood Dragon to lower its head and looked down along with it.
"Greetings, Senior Q-Qiu!"
Hu Li stared at the ferocious Flood Dragon's head and felt its crushing pressure. Unable to resist in the slightest, he lowered his head and knelt in a deep bow.
"All right, get up."
Ji Yuan said this, then rode Monday around the whole of Mystic Crystal Mountain.
The mountain wind swept past the Ice Flood Dragon, bringing a trace of coolness.
At last, Ji Yuan experienced the feeling he had wanted: riding a dragon.
But that was not enough. What he really wanted was to descend from the sky on a dragon before a sea of watching faces, just as he had imagined appearing in Peony City, standing atop the Ice Flood Dragon when cultivators had gathered from all around.
How incredible would that be? ...All right, I'm not Second Senior Brother Yun Qianzai. I still need to be careful.
I can't think only about showing off.
So after showing off before Hu Li for a while, Ji Yuan rode Monday back into Hundred-Insect Cave.
He still had to continue his seclusion.
He intended to press on in one breath and see whether he could attain Pseudo-Core in a single stroke!
Before he left, though, he did not forget to give Hu Li another task.
Whenever Hu Li had time, he was to go out and look around. For one thing, he needed to buy supplies, such as Iron-Wire Ants for upgrading the [Ant Nest]. For another, he needed to gather news.
Seclusion mattered, but Ji Yuan also had to keep abreast of the state of the world.
Otherwise, when he emerged, he would be groping in the dark.
He truly would not know