I took so many Marrow Cleansing Pills—equivalent to years of bitter cultivation—yet when it came to you, they only counted as a few months of increased cultivation. Why was my life... so bitter? Xiao Hua grumbled inwardly without end.
Thus, along the way, Xiao Hua still flew at the very back, keeping his head down as he diligently cultivated the basic cultivation art he had only just obtained yesterday. Yet before he could make anything of it, they had arrived at Yulian Mountain!
Yulian Mountain truly was as Li Xiaowen and the others had described. The mountain was not particularly tall, but the mist was immense. From far away, it looked like an incomparably huge cloud bank that had fallen from the nine heavens into the mortal world.
"What... what a huge piece of cotton candy!" Xiao Hua raised his head, saw it, and could not help letting out a groan.
Xun Feiyan was flying directly ahead of Xiao Hua. Xiao Hua's remark happened to reach his ears, and Xun Feiyan's originally graceful flying posture twisted crookedly several times. He nearly fell from midair.
"Fellow Daoist Xun, be careful!" Xiao Hua hurriedly warned him.
Xun Feiyan wore an exceedingly strange expression. Turning back, he cupped his hands. "Th-thank you for Fellow Daoist Xiao's concern!"
Then, forcibly biting his lip, he flew forward with all his might... Beneath Xiao Hua and the others stretched endless plains, truly giving one the feeling of gazing across boundless land. Yet upon this plain, mist-shrouded Yulian Mountain rose abruptly, making for a most peculiar sight. Especially as Xiao Hua and the others flew in from the air, if one did not speak of Yulian Mountain's dangers, it would seem like quite an extraordinary place!
"Fellow Daoist Fan..." Now that they had reached the vicinity of