Seeing the crowd not far away, Xue Xue hesitated for a moment, then sighed. "Fine, this poor Daoist will listen to you just this once! But Fellow Daoist Xue, you must take responsibility for this poor Daoist!"
"What?" Xiao Hua was stunned, thinking to himself, Does that... have some other meaning?
Those words were quite ambiguous. The moment Xue Xue said them, she realized it and hurriedly stammered, "If danger arises, those cultivators will only look after their own safety. Who would care about this poor Daoist? I might as well honestly follow at the rear!"
"Mm, since Fellow Daoist Xue understands, that is for the best!" Xiao Hua nodded, then looked around again. They were not the only clever ones. Within ten zhang of them, there were likewise more than ten cultivators, some with their arms folded across their chests, some standing with their hands tucked away, and some suspended in midair, all coldly watching the people ahead fly away.
"Fellow Daoist Xiao... how should we proceed?" Xue Xue also looked around and asked softly. "Play it by ear!" Xiao Hua replied with a mysterious smile.
"Play it by ear? Isn't that the same as saying nothing?" Xue Xue curled her lips. With a pat of her hand, she took out several yellow talismans from her storage bag, handed a few to Xiao Hua, and said, "If you do not want to say it, then do not say it. Acting as though you are so profound!"
Yet the moment those words left her mouth, Xue Xue regretted them somewhat. It seemed she had not yet realized that Xiao Hua was now a cultivator at the late tenth layer of Qi Cultivation, no longer the low-level cultivator at the Qi Cultivation fourth layer she had once known. How could she