With familiar faces like Zhou Xiaoya, Li Xiaoya put on no airs as their senior. Everyone knew his temperament: if you were close to him, all was well; if you were on bad terms or enemies, you had best not provoke him. He was hardly smooth and worldly, but he certainly had a personality of his own.
Soon!
Cultivators from the other sects arrived as well.
All the Spirit Communion Stage cultivators in Great Illusion who were expected to attend had arrived. Everyone took their seats inside the building beside Spiritlight Lake that Li Xiaoya had once wanted to sneak into and investigate.
The Spirit Communion Stage cultivators seated themselves more or less according to their sects and cultivation levels. Li Xiaoya unceremoniously took the seat of honor, looking every bit the chairman of the meeting. Partly, this was at the others' insistence; partly, as the only Great Void Stage cultivator in the Human Realm, he naturally had the right.
Once everyone had settled into their seats!
The cultivators exchanged glances, looking toward the dozen or so empty seats on one side, and began murmuring among themselves.
"What's going on? Why haven't the Three Great Demon Dragon Kings arrived yet?"
"Exactly! Could they have learned about Treasure Mountain?"
"They shouldn't have! Did something happen on the way?"
"Perhaps they'll be here in a little while!"
"...!"
"Ahem! Fellow Daoist Qianshan! Why haven't those three old dragons arrived yet?" Hehuan Young Master asked High Person Qianshan.
"Well... I don't know either!" High Person Qianshan replied with a wry smile, a trace of foreboding rising in his heart. After a pause, he told everyone, "Let's wait a little longer. Perhaps those demon beasts ran into trouble on the way!"
"Oh, right! Fellow Daoist Qianshan, you haven't told those demon beasts about Treasure