"Hm?" Li Xiaoya froze at the sight. His divine sense suddenly detected several cultivators outside the door racing after Lingyu. His figure flickered, and in a flash of light, he appeared behind her. A shimmering green net came sweeping toward her. Li Xiaoya moved again, instantly shielding her. Red light flashed at his fingertips, and several streams of flame shot out, blasting the net away.
"Who are you? How dare you meddle in my business?" a furious voice roared. A short, fat young cultivator appeared at the inn's entrance with two grotesquely ugly lackeys.
"Young Master! Young Master! This is the East Xia Inn!" the slightly shorter lackey hastily warned the fat cultivator.
"Ugh! That rotten girl has come to hide in the East Xia Inn again! Damn her!" the slightly taller lackey cursed.
The fat cultivator sized Li Xiaoya up and down and decided he was not someone to provoke. He was about to speak when Lingyu poked her little head out from behind Li Xiaoya, made a face, and taunted, "You fat pig! This is my master! Scared now? Watch out, or he'll send all of you flying with one slap!"
"Y-you... if you've got the balls, fight me one-on-one!" the fat cultivator shouted at Lingyu, apparently not particularly bright.
"Hmph! I'm a girl. How would I have balls? If you've got the balls, fight my master!" Lingyu snorted through her little nose.
"Uh..." Looking at Li Xiaoya, the fat cultivator could not get a single word out. He stood there meekly, utterly cowed.
"Get lost!" Although Li Xiaoya did not know what was going on, he had no desire to get dragged into their farce. He glared at the fat cultivator and roared so loudly that the fellow's ears rang. Terrified, the fat cultivator and his two