"Whether it's true or not, do I need to explain myself to you?" Li Xiaoya replied coldly, plainly unwilling to elaborate. Instead, his attitude made Daoist Zhenyuan believe him a little more.
"Well! Of course... of course!" Daoist Zhenyuan looked somewhat embarrassed. He hesitated, thinking, Even if he has ties to Tianyuan, Tianyuan can't enter this Immemorial Heaven-and-Earth Spiritual Qi Formation. What does it matter? Tianyuan wouldn't spread word of those affairs anyway. I should get this fellow on board first. He hastily replied, then suddenly noticed the Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash in Li Xiaoya's hand. "By the way! Is that the Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash you're holding? Isn't that a supreme treasure of the Dragon Race?"
"Oh? What if I said it wasn't?" Li Xiaoya replied with a half-smile, casually swinging the Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash several times...
"Heh heh! I was merely asking!" Daoist Zhenyuan clearly was not a man given to smiling. His stiff-faced chuckle looked rather strange. After a pause, he continued, "However, I came here to discuss an important matter...!"
"Hey, fellow Daoist! This doesn't look like a good place to talk. Why don't we go somewhere else?" A cold gleam flashed through Li Xiaoya's eyes as he interrupted Daoist Zhenyuan and changed the subject. Though he was speaking with Daoist Zhenyuan, his attention had actually remained fixed on the island...
Although the two had stopped fighting, the seawater still churned violently, and the surrounding space kept twisting, evidently because their auras were far too powerful...
"Very well! We can talk somewhere else!" Thinking Li Xiaoya intended to take him onto the island, Daoist Zhenyuan readily agreed.
"Good! Let's go!" Li Xiaoya said at once. With that, he moved, turning into a streak of escaping light that flew off in one direction...
"Huh? Where are