"!" At those words, Xu Shaogui and his fellow cultivators all paled, their expressions turning ugly as they looked at Blood Demon Baleful Intent... then glanced at Li Xiaoya...
But!
"...!" Li Xiaoya remained silent and seemed perfectly composed. In fact, he was the calmest of all the cultivators, as though he stood aloof from worldly concerns...
Li Xiaoya truly had little to be nervous about. This was only his water-element clone; even if it was killed, his true body would suffer little harm. The only problem was how to preserve the considerable portion of his divided spirit and soul within this clone. Losing those would cause him no small amount of trouble. Cultivating another water-element clone would probably take only a few decades...
Restoring that portion of his divided spirit and soul, however, would be much slower, requiring at least a thousand years. After all, his soul and divine sense had only recently recovered from a similarly grievous injury. If he suffered the same wounds again, his recovery would be much slower...
So, no matter what, Li Xiaoya still wanted to avoid suffering too much damage... More importantly, his true body needed just a little more time to arrive, so naturally, he hoped to stall...
Then!
"However! Fellow Daoist Jade Disk was a little too impatient!" Blood Demon Baleful Intent abruptly changed tack and addressed Li Xiaoya in a deep voice. "Fellow Daoist, you must be the cultivator from the Ten Thousand Isles Continent called Jia Ming, correct?" Seeing Li Xiaoya nod with a faint, ambiguous smile, he continued, "Then I imagine you have no particular friendship with Xu Shaogui and his companions?"
"What do you propose, Fellow Daoist?" At those words, a curious gleam flashed through Li Xiaoya's eyes as he spoke in a low voice. He remained