After Zhao Xiaoqing, Chen Da, and Ou Qilong had been sent away by Li Xiaoya.
"Hand it over!" Watching the three depart amid noisy bickering, Li Xiaoya suddenly held out a hand and spoke to thin air.
With a whoosh, Dong Santong appeared out of thin air, looking rather baffled. He reached for a Storage Pouch and tossed it into Li Xiaoya's hand, asking in bewilderment, "Hey, senior brother! You didn't secretly threaten him, did you? Otherwise, why would that kid kowtow and thank you after you taught him a lesson?"
"Haha! Take a guess!" Li Xiaoya tucked the Storage Pouch into his robe and laughed. "We'd better hurry back too!" With that, he soared into the sky.
"Hey, hey! What's there to guess? You must have threatened that junior!" Dong Santong chased after him, insisting.
"Uh! Whether I threatened him or not-you were watching from the sidelines, weren't you?" Li Xiaoya countered.
"..." Dong Santong choked on his words and immediately fell silent. Only after a while did he say, "Hey! Just tell me, then! What exactly was going on with him?"
"Uh! It's actually very simple!" Unable to fend off his questions, Li Xiaoya answered, "Tell me, does Zhao Xiaoqing like Ling Yuyu?"
"Hey! Obviously not!" Dong Santong paused, then hastily answered. Even he could tell, given how Ling Yuyu had defeated Zhao Xiaoqing. After a pause, he hurriedly asked, "But what does that have to do with that kid?"
"Of course it has something to do with him!" Li Xiaoya said as though it were perfectly obvious. "With the tricks Ling Yuyu used, even if Zhao Xiaoqing had liked him before, she would have stopped liking him afterward. And she didn't like him to begin with! Besides, there are those two guardians of the flower. If Ling