Chapter 263: Zhang Hong's Return (First update)
Having received word from Zhang Hong, Li Xiaoya should have been delighted, but he could not quite feel happy. Zhang Hong said she still had matters to attend to and could not get away just yet. She had warned him over and over not to disappear again, or she would never speak to him for the rest of her life. Only her promise to return after a while made him feel a little better. He knew she must have something terribly important keeping her away; otherwise, how could she not hurry back to see the Li Xiaoya she longed for day and night?
In those brief six months, however, Li Xiaoya finally broke through to the third layer of the Golden Core Stage. What he had not expected was that Dong Santong would reach the third layer before him. His aptitude truly could not compare to Dong Santong's.
What frustrated Li Xiaoya was that his Dragon-Devouring God-Reversal Art still refused to break through to the fifth level. Advancing this art really was no easy task.
During those six months, apart from cultivating in his cave abode, Li Xiaoya had not gone anywhere-not even to Mother Li's cave abode. His only company was Dong Santong, with whom he sparred in the Dueling Formation every eight or ten days. Otherwise, he meditated and cultivated, then meditated and cultivated some more. Now that he had a family blood debt to avenge, he urgently needed to raise his cultivation and naturally refused to let other matters distract him.
Over a stretch of sea an unknown distance from the Heavenly Dao Sect, Black Skeleton hovered in the sky with a disgruntled expression. He was still frustrated-extremely frustrated. He had finally managed to reach the Liang Kingdom, only to