Whoosh!!!!! The Heavenly Feather Wings flashed into existence behind Li Xiaoya and beat repeatedly, turning him into a streak of golden escaping light as he flew forward at full speed. In that brief pursuit, he had chased the Superwind Beast nearly a hundred li.
"Whew! There they are!" After flying only a few dozen li, he spotted the others and let out a great sigh of relief. It had been nothing but a scare. Zhang Hong and the others hovered in the air, chatting excitedly about something. Fortunately, no illusion mist had drifted into these woods yet, or finding them would have been difficult.
"Huh? That's...!" Seeing that they were all looking in the same direction, Li Xiaoya followed their gazes and cried out in pleasant surprise. Through a faint veil of mist ahead stood an enormous mountain whose summit was lost from view. An immense fissure was barely visible down the middle of Giant Mountain, as though it had been sliced in two. Joy surged in his heart. Haha! Have we found it? With that thought, he shot toward the others.
"Ah!!! Senior Brother! You're back? Did you get it?" The others spotted Li Xiaoya at that moment, and Dong Santong flew swiftly toward him, asking eagerly.
"Ah! I let it get away!" Li Xiaoya deliberately furrowed his brow and sighed, putting on a thoroughly helpless expression.
"You let it get away? Senior Brother!!! You... how could you let it get away?" Dong Santong complained loudly, bitterly disappointed.
"Ah! What could I do? That creature was too fast! So..." Li Xiaoya replied with a half smile. Then his tone suddenly changed. He slapped his Storage Pouch, took out a pair of wings shimmering with azure light, and sent them flying toward Dong Santong. "So I had to cut off