Li Xiaoya was not being overly suspicious!
Ailishan's appearance had been decidedly strange, and her words did not seem to come from the heart. She was clearly lying...
Ailishan claimed that she had been delayed for quite some time on the Third Layer and the Sixth Layer, which was why she had fallen so far behind everyone else.
But...
One thing was obvious.
When the cultivators first gathered to board the flying boat, he had not noticed anyone like her. When they set out, they had entered almost simultaneously. Although more than a thousand cultivators had participated, a single sweep of Li Xiaoya's powerful divine sense had sensed every one of them clearly. Yet he had never detected her.
What exactly Ailishan wanted was worth pondering. Judging by her manner, however, she did not seem to harbor ill intent. Rather, she seemed to be enticing everyone to venture deeper...
Still, Li Xiaoya had no intention of exposing her. The others clearly looked somewhat suspicious as well, but none of them mentioned a word of it. Evidently, knowing what was going on was enough...
"By the way, Fairy Ailishan! You've worked hard coming all this way. Why don't you recover your magic power first?" Di Long Yunyi suggested.
"Oh! All right!" Ailishan seemed to feel that she had expended quite a bit of magic power as well, and readily agreed.
They exchanged a few more pleasantries before each finding a place to recover their magic power...
Time passed quickly!
Ailishan had only meditated for a little over an hour when Hai Kuliuyin finally arrived as well. There were now six of them, but that hardly mattered. They did not need exactly five people to descend; a few extra hands would actually be better. After all, they were not hunting treasures