Hearing this, Li Xiaoya was indeed deeply tempted. Unlike many Immortal Cultivators, Li Xiaoya was affectionate by nature. No matter how brutal the struggles he endured-against heaven, against cultivators, against Demon Beasts, against demons-the cruelty and danger only strengthened his resolve to preserve the purest, most genuine feelings in his heart forever, and to protect the people who mattered most in his life...
Perhaps it was precisely this unshakable determination to protect the most important people in his life that had led Li Xiaoya down a path unlike that of ordinary Immortal Cultivators...
Perhaps!
That was the main reason the Daode Daoist Patriarch had taken an interest in Li Xiaoya...
Hearing his words, the Daode Daoist Patriarch smiled faintly, looking thoroughly satisfied. Extraordinary deeds naturally required extraordinary people to accomplish them... Seeing the resolve in Li Xiaoya's eyes, he finally said, "First! The first thing you must do is redouble your efforts in cultivation and try to reach the Mighty One Stage within a thousand years!"
"Yes! Your disciple obeys!" Li Xiaoya answered solemnly, his expression grave. He could not help thinking, Could Liar Master be doing this to... No... The thought had barely surfaced before he extinguished it. Although the time he had truly spent with the Daode Daoist Patriarch amounted to only a few years several thousand years ago, the man had left a deep impression on him. Whenever the Daode Daoist Patriarch, in his guise as Liar Master, wanted him to do something, he would use some little scheme on him. It worked every time. Li Xiaoya frequently fell for it and suffered quite a bit, which was why he kept calling him Liar Master... Yet after those hardships, the experience always proved profoundly meaningful to him... Certain that the Daode Daoist Patriarch had his reasons for