At this moment, Xiao Hua was no longer a cultivator at the first layer of Qi Cultivation in Cai Zhuoxia's eyes, no longer a low-level disciple she had intended to repay with a few small favors. He was a mysterious cultivator whose cultivation was even a notch stronger than hers, and who possessed boundless strength! It was a fact Cai Zhuoxia was unwilling to admit aloud, yet had no choice but to face!
Therefore, while being pursued by the Leopard-patterned Dragonfly, the moment Cai Zhuoxia saw Xiao Hua, she immediately wanted to fly toward him. Yet when Xiao Hua saw this, he frowned slightly... Seeing the strange look on his face, Cai Zhuoxia was puzzled at first, but then she understood. Though the Leopard-patterned Dragonfly was the guardian Spirit Beast of the Mother-Child Spirit Fruit, it was ultimately only a first-grade Spirit Beast, its strength merely comparable to the Qi Cultivation fifth layer. Her own cultivation had already reached the peak of the Qi Cultivation fifth layer, so she should have been able to fight it. If, upon seeing Xiao Hua, she led the Leopard-patterned Dragonfly straight to him, then would she not be utterly useless in this search for the Mother-Child Spirit Fruit? And if she served no purpose, what right did she have to take more Mother-Child Spirit Fruit?
Cai Zhuoxia saw things clearly. Her expression hardened, and she gritted her teeth, turned around, and lured the Leopard-patterned Dragonfly elsewhere. Yet in the brief moment she had hesitated, the Leopard-patterned Dragonfly had already caught up. Its wings buzzed and flashed, while its dragonfly tail, like a wooden rod, suddenly whipped about at high speed. Then its head abruptly thrust forward, and a long, sharp ice spike shot toward Cai Zhuoxia's back with the speed of thunder, too swift