.. "~~" (Third Update)
"Pop, pop, pop!!!" A series of blasts rang out as countless holes were punched through the white clouds, and golden flying swords and Ice Swords shot into the sky.
"Junior Brother Li! Hold on! Hold on!" Seeing Li Xiaoya and the others preparing another attack, the black-clad figure flickered rapidly through the sky at an astonishing speed, calling out in alarm.
The voice was indeed completely unfamiliar to Li Xiaoya, as was the aura it gave off. Yet this person had called him junior brother. Both he and Liu Xian'er were startled and stopped the spells they were about to cast.
"Whoosh!!" The dark figure moved extremely fast, only coming to a halt after Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er stopped attacking her. The cultivator was dressed entirely in black, with a pitch-black helmet on her head and a faceplate that left only a pair of bright, alert eyes exposed. Although her outfit was strange, she did not look like a Demonic Path cultivator. Judging by her cultivation and aura, she should have been at the nascent soul middle stage.
"Who are you? Are you an elder of the Heavenly Dao Sect too?" At the celebration, Li Xiaoya had met most of the Heavenly Dao Sect's nascent soul realm cultivators who had attended. This masked cultivator in black was so distinctive, and at the nascent soul middle stage besides, that she clearly was not someone he knew.
"Hehe! It's perfectly normal that you know me, because we've never met!" the masked cultivator in black said with a chuckle.
"Cut the nonsense! I asked you a question! Why were you sneaking around after the two of us? Don't blame us if we stop being polite!" Li Xiaoya froze for a moment, then snapped coldly.
"Now, now!" The black-clad