(First update)
Li Xiaoya naturally would not charge straight over so recklessly. As he sprinted toward the source of the sound, his figure blurred and vanished into thin air.
Before long, Li Xiaoya approached the place the sound had come from.
He quietly rounded a heavily weathered boulder and suddenly spotted a familiar figure. The cultivator wore blue scholarly robes and had a long beard and mustache, giving him the air of a refined scholar. He was dealing with the carcass of a huge demon beast. Li Xiaoya froze at the sight of him. It's him! He actually revealed himself right away.
"Who's there?" The man suddenly shuddered, turned, and shouted. Even as he spoke, he pointed a finger, sending several streaks of gray light shooting toward Li Xiaoya. Had this fellow really attacked without even seeing who it was?
"Hey! Fellow Daoist Qu Long, it's me!" Li Xiaoya hurriedly called out. Golden light flashed beneath his feet as he spoke. With a boom, his stomp left a huge crater in the ground, and he vanished into thin air.
"Fellow Daoist Li!" The man's expression changed, and he cried out in surprise, immediately stopping his spellcasting. He was none other than Qu Long Scholar, who had accompanied Li Xiaoya and the others into the Enchanted Mountain Range to seek the Primordial Chaos Pill all those years ago. Judging by his aura and cultivation, he had become a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator as well. However, like Li Xiaoya, he was only at the nascent soul first layer, and had probably advanced not long ago.
"Haha! What a stroke of fate, meeting you here, Fellow Daoist Qu Long!" With a boom, Li Xiaoya reappeared over a hundred feet away and laughed. His speed left Qu Long Scholar utterly astonished.
Li Xiaoya's astonishing