Xiao Hanlan?
Was this towering figure, shimmering with five-colored spiritual light, the Xiao Hanlan whom Li Xiaoya had been trying to find for Black Qilin?
But!
Five-colored spiritual light now wreathed Xiao Hanlan's entire body, making his face impossible to see clearly.
Hearing Daode Daoist Patriarch's words, Xiao Hanlan asked in bewilderment, "Why are you asking me about this? I don't even know your disciple!"
"Oh!" Daode Daoist Patriarch seemed to glance at the others before saying mysteriously, "I'm not too clear on the rest, but Li Xiaoya used Steel-armored Beetles to kill the Corpse Puppet Insect Mother on the Seventeenth Layer!"
"Steel-armored Beetles!" Everyone froze, and even Xiao Hanlan cried out in astonishment...
"Li Xiaoya has Steel-armored Beetles?"
"And ones capable of killing the Corpse Puppet Insect Mother?"
"Could they be peak Heaven-and-Earth Realm Steel-armored Beetles? Xiao Hanlan! How do you explain this? Across the thirty-three Star Realms, you should be the only one who has those beetles, shouldn't you?"
The three figures shimmering with five-colored spiritual light spoke in turn. The last, a slender figure, directed that question at Xiao Hanlan.
"You're saying Li Xiaoya has Steel-armored Beetles?" Xiao Hanlan also sounded surprised. Ignoring the others, he asked Daode Daoist Patriarch, "Where did he get them?"
"You'll have to answer that! I certainly don't have any!" Daode Daoist Patriarch said gravely, looking as though he knew nothing.
"Er! That certainly is strange!" Xiao Hanlan muttered, seemingly genuinely confused. In truth, his heart was as clear as a mirror: he had suddenly remembered what had happened. Yet he continued, "Ah! Although I don't know what happened, perhaps obtaining those Steel-armored Beetles was Li Xiaoya's destined opportunity. No one ever decreed that I alone could have them! You..." His tone abruptly shifted as he challenged the others. "Surely you don't