"Brother Li, what should we do?" the Azure Thunder Roc asked Li Xiaoya. "That flying boat seems to be under attack by a pack of demon beasts... I reckon there are cultivators aboard... Let's leave them alone!" With that, he beat his enormous wings and veered around to one side...
"Mm! Leave them be..." Li Xiaoya pondered for a moment. Although he was curious about what had happened, they were strangers in an unfamiliar land, so it was better not to meddle. After a moment's hesitation, he answered that way...
"All right!" At his words, the Azure Thunder Roc accelerated off to one side...
But then!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! The enormous flying boat was astonishingly fast. It actually changed course and chased after the Azure Thunder Roc, as though determined to latch onto him... More importantly, it seemed a little faster than the Azure Thunder Roc... Rather than being shaken off, it was even closing the distance...
The demon beasts besieging the flying boat, on the other hand, had fallen behind and were chasing frantically. As they flew, Li Xiaoya finally got a clear look at them... There appeared to be six in all, each with two pairs of enormous flesh wings that sent astonishing red light rippling outward with every beat. Their bodies were tens of thousands of feet long, and their heads bore enormous faces that looked less human than simian. They kept spitting huge beams of red light at the gigantic flying boat... Li Xiaoya did not recognize these demon beasts... Judging by their auras, however, they were all at the Immortal Tribulation Stage...
"So fast!" Watching the flying boat's astonishing speed through the Light Curtain, Li Xiaoya felt something stir within him and murmured to himself... As the flying boat drew nearer at incredible speed,