Seeing Xiao Hua like this, Li Xiang could only sigh and smile. "I wouldn't dare speak of seeking instruction. Please, True Person Xiao."
Li Xiang then instructed his disciples to mount up and set out toward 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 hastily circulated their techniques, hoping they could use flight sooner.
Xiao Hua beckoned, and the Heavenly Horse descended. He instructed Liu Yi and Wang Zhengfei to get off the carriage and ride the horses Li Xiang had ridden earlier, while he invited Li Xiang onto the flying carriage.
Once the Heavenly Horse rose into the air again, Li Xiang and his disciples began traveling beneath it.
"Alas, True Person Xiao..." Seated in the flying carriage, Li Xiang watched the Heavenly Horse ahead, radiant with light, and sighed. "Using this Heavenly Horse... isn't that a little too ostentatious? Aren't you afraid the Confucian cultivators will turn green with envy?"
"Hehe, everything this Xiao did was enough to make Confucian cultivators green with envy. One more thing made no difference!" Xiao Hua chuckled indifferently.
"One more thing made no difference?" Li Xiang said with a smile. "You took the Zhu family's ancestral treasure right in front of everyone. This Li did not know what it was, but since even the ruler of Tongzhu Kingdom coveted it, I imagine every Confucian cultivator would turn green with envy!"
"This Xiao did not know what it was either!" Xiao Hua patted his hand, and a fingernail-sized grain of bone appeared in his palm. "At the time, this Xiao only thought it might be of some use to me,