Seeing Xiao Hua like this, Li Xiang could only sigh and smile. "I wouldn't dare speak of seeking instruction. True Person Xiao, please..."
Li Xiang then instructed his disciples to mount up and head for Black Cloud Ridge. Though the disciples could not fully recover, once they heard that reaching Black Cloud Ridge a day sooner meant recovering their cultivation a day sooner, how could they not hurry onto their horses? Even those whose cultivation remained hurriedly circulated their techniques, hoping they could use flying arts sooner.
Xiao Hua beckoned, and the Heavenly Horse descended. He told Liu Yi and Wang Zhengfei to get out of the carriage and ride the horses Li Xiang had ridden earlier, while he invited Li Xiang aboard the flying carriage.
Once the Heavenly Horse took to the skies again, Li Xiang and his disciples began hurrying onward beneath it.
"Alas, True Person Xiao..." Sitting in the flying carriage, Li Xiang looked at the Heavenly Horse blazing with light ahead and sighed. "Isn't using this Heavenly Horse a little too ostentatious? Aren't you afraid the Confucian cultivators will grow jealous?"
"Hehe, everything this Xiao does makes Confucian cultivators jealous. One more thing makes no difference!" Xiao Hua chuckled carelessly.
"One more thing makes no difference?" Li Xiang said with a smile. "You took the Zhu family's ancestral treasure right before everyone's eyes. Li does not know what it is, but since even the ruler of Tongzhu Kingdom coveted it, I imagine all Confucian cultivators would turn green with envy!"
"This Xiao doesn't know what it is either!" Xiao Hua slapped his hand, and a fingernail-sized bone fragment appeared in his palm. "At the time, this Xiao only thought it might be useful to me, and that it could shield the pitiful Zhu family from disaster,