"His task was difficult enough that he could hardly finish it. I only went to help shoulder some of the burden-a good deed, that's all!"
Li Mingyue reached out and patted his shoulder, laughing. "Stop talking nonsense. You've already made him suffer enough with your tricks."
Cui Jiuyang snorted irritably. "Who told him to take a fancy to you? Of course I had to have a little spar with him."
Li Mingyue covered her mouth and giggled, teasing him. "You call that a little spar? With all the tricks you played on him, you could have had twenty rounds! Oh, Jiuyang, you've tipped over the vinegar jar. I can practically smell your jealousy three miles away."
Cui Jiuyang snorted and said no more. He strode ahead without looking back. "Jealous? Who's jealous? I like spicy food!"
At that, Li Mingyue laughed even harder, but when she saw him getting farther away, she hurried after him and stopped provoking him.
The journey from Leizhou to Guangzhou might not have been perilous, but crossing all those mountains and ridges was hard enough.
After collecting the shipment in Leizhou, Li Sanyuan and several protectors of Divine Path Heaven escorted a full forty cartloads of formation materials toward Guangzhou, traveling day and night.
Even with the Cultivation of the Heart Halls established by Divine Path Heaven along the route to receive them and provide places to rest, the arduous work of escorting the cargo still left them exhausted.
Although these formation materials were not particularly valuable, there were simply too many of them-forty full carts. Together, the spiritual power they contained had already created a considerable fluctuation of spiritual energy.
As a result, no small number of demons watched them along the way. Even some wild god sects that refused to submit to