"Little White... do me a favor, won't you? If you help me this once, I can refine a batch of excellent Supreme Thunder Spirit Pills for you. What do you say?" Li Xiaoya transmitted his voice to Little White, the Azure Thunder Roc, as he flew, bargaining all the while...
The faster method Li Xiaoya had mentioned was actually quite simple: ask Little White, the Azure Thunder Roc, for help... With the Azure Thunder Roc's Immortal Tribulation Stage cultivation, combined with its nature as a flying Demon Beast, its Thunder Escape was astonishing... Among cultivators of the same stage, who could possibly match its speed?
Back in the Immortal Spirit Realm, even the Four Immortal Tribulation Stage Cultivators pursuing it at full speed had been unable to keep up. If Little White carried him, Li Xiaoya was confident he could cut the journey in half. That way, he could reach the Immortal Star Realm in just over a hundred and fifty years. This was the best solution he could currently think of...
There were other methods, but they would only save a few decades...
However...
When Li Xiaoya discussed it with the Azure Thunder Roc, it refused outright... They had already been bargaining over it for quite some time...
There was only one reason... Little White refused to serve as Li Xiaoya's mount...
To a Demon Beast, serving as a cultivator's mount was an enormous humiliation... Although Li Xiaoya did not consider himself to be treating Little White as a mount, the Azure Thunder Roc still saw it that way, no matter how many kind words he offered. If Li Xiaoya urgently needed help under special circumstances, carrying him would be no problem. But when nothing was wrong, he wanted it to carry him through the skies...
Moreover, although Little