"But!" A trace of melancholy suddenly crossed the Daode Daoist Patriarch's face. He paused, then said solemnly, "Since this was your choice, I will spare no effort!" With that, five-colored spiritual light surged over his body, enveloping his entire figure. Wrapped completely in that light, he dissolved into countless threads of radiance and vanished into the air...
Elsewhere!
Li Xiaoya flew swiftly onward, thinking over what the Daode Daoist Patriarch had just told him. Their conversation really had taken a long time-more than a day, probably. Still, there had been so much to discuss, and all of it had been vitally important. No wonder it had taken so long...
But, Master! Just what are you hiding from me? After flying for quite some time, Li Xiaoya silently asked himself this question. Although the Daode Daoist Patriarch had told him a great deal, he had also concealed quite a few things. What could they be? Li Xiaoya could not figure it out. Fortunately, however he looked at it, the Daode Daoist Patriarch probably would not do anything utterly depraved to him. Yet a man's heart lay hidden behind his ribs, and the thoughts of a supreme Great Cultivator like the Daode Daoist Patriarch were even more unfathomable. Li Xiaoya still felt considerable displeasure and wariness. The Daode Daoist Patriarch had been grooming him since childhood, and that truly worried him. Although the patriarch had said that even with his cultivation, he could not control Li Xiaoya's fate... Li Xiaoya was clearly, unwittingly moving in precisely the direction the patriarch wanted. That inevitably stirred his suspicions again...
Before long...
He spotted Sacred Mountain Peak in the distance. Come to think of it, before visiting the Daode Daoist Patriarch, he had not even known the name of the mountain where he lived. If