"Wait, fellow Daoist!" a female cultivator cried out.
"Hm?" Li Xiaoya glanced back and saw a beautiful middle-aged woman whose charms had not faded with age. He froze in surprise. She was a cultivator of the Huaxia Human Race, too. He abruptly stopped moving and stayed his hand, startled that this cultivator had appeared behind him without a sound. Could it be...? With that thought, he swept his divine sense over her and froze again, even more surprised. This middle-aged woman was only at the peak of the late Great Void Stage...
"Fellow Daoist! Were you the one who saved me?" the middle-aged woman suddenly asked, leaving Li Xiaoya somewhat bewildered...
"I saved you?" Li Xiaoya asked in surprise. Suddenly, he found her aura rather familiar and immediately remembered. "Are you Fellow Daoist Lingxin?" he hurriedly asked.
Indeed!
This woman was none other than Granny Lingxin, who had been sucked into the gaunt cultivator's Skull Head and imprisoned there! Those Greenfolk cultivators were hardly decent folk. They had captured Lingxin to drain her dry through yin-stealing yang-nourishing, but when Li Xiaoya smashed the Skull Head to pieces with a blow from his Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff, she had naturally been released as well. At the moment she emerged, however, the Skull Head's special restrictions had still sealed her aura and magic power. Only after Li Xiaoya killed that Greenfolk cultivator had she truly been freed...
Instead, Li Xiaoya's nerves had gotten the better of him, making him think Lingxin's cultivation was so astonishing that she could appear right behind him without his noticing...
Just then!
Bzzzz! A series of astonishing buzzing sounds approached from afar. A red cloud shot swiftly toward Li Xiaoya. It was none other than the Steel-armored Beetles. Several carried piles of Storage Pouches and treasures in