"Surely it isn't as serious as you imagine, is it?" True Person Yuanqing shook his head slightly, looking meaningfully toward where Xiao Hua had vanished.
"Perhaps it is not quite so serious, but we must think this way." Hai Hongzi did not abandon his stance and explained, "If we do not interfere, even if we fail to obtain the Qing Ming Dragon Saliva, we can still return alive from the Yaotai Gathering. But the moment we interfere, it will surely become a dead end!"
Hong Songzi looked at True Person Yuanqing. Helplessness flickered in both their eyes. What Hai Hongzi said was indeed true. Xiao Hua was certainly a great help, but likewise a powerful foe. The disadvantages of cooperating with him still outweighed the benefits.
"Let us go..." True Person Yuanqing waved his hand. "According to our earlier discussion, once we enter Yaotai Mountain, immediately activate the magic treasure Fellow Daoist Hai refined, find one another, and then join hands to seek treasures."
Hong Songzi and Hai Hongzi both nodded. The three flew separately into the Dragon Gate.
What they did not know was that behind layer upon layer of crimson clouds, Kong Hongwu was likewise looking in confusion at where Xiao Hua had disappeared. He thought to himself, Why is this Xiao Hua so audacious? Even True Lord Qingxu dared not enter, yet he actually dares to come? Could there be some secret among these several thousand cultivators that this old man does not know? Hmph, since you have come, I will let you learn this old man's might. If I can obtain Ancestor Hongmeng's whereabouts from your mouth, that will be a heaven-shaking achievement!
Kong Hongwu's figure then vanished as well.
At the foot of Yaotai Mountain, fewer and fewer Daoist sect cultivators remained gathered. The twenty