But!
When Li Xiaoya glanced in that direction without betraying anything, the two figures seemed to notice and vanished somewhere again...
"..." Li Xiaoya was inwardly puzzled. He looked around, only to see the opening of the Heavenfire Furnace in the ground slowly closing. Not a soul was anywhere in sight. Finding this strange, he silently guessed, Did I stay inside so long that the others grew tired of waiting and left first? But on second thought, that did not seem right. No, even if the others left, that Giant Race cultivator should still be here, shouldn't he? Restrictions on divine sense were still in place here, so he could find no clues. He ventured another guess. Perhaps something happened? Those two must have been the cultivators on guard.
With that thought, Li Xiaoya waited a little longer. People began looking down from the rings of tiered buildings, seemingly curious about the sight of him standing alone below...
A thought stirred in Li Xiaoya's mind. Who cares! Whatever happened has nothing to do with me! Then something else suddenly occurred to him. Ah! Damn! I stayed inside too long. I wonder whether the Qianling Treasure Pavilion delivered my things...
He had finally remembered his business with the Qianling Treasure Pavilion. He had indeed spent so long inside the Heavenfire Furnace that he had nearly forgotten it. Now that he remembered, he had no desire to linger here...
With a whoosh, golden light shot upward, carrying him into the sky. Before long, he had vanished from the ground...
Meanwhile...
In a secluded spot in one of the buildings, two Elf Human Race cultivators, a man and a woman, saw this and hurriedly exchanged voice transmissions. The exquisitely beautiful woman, whose hair was gray-white, asked, "What should we do? Li Xiaoya has