Chapter 568 - Destruction of the Great City (1/2)

However, at this moment, all of a sudden—

“Boom!”

The ground started shaking.

Li Lan stood up in surprise. He looked around and saw in the distance that the ground had suddenly cracked open and endless underground fire spewed out like a demon that had been suppressed for tens of millions of years.

“Is this place… going to be destroyed?”

After a brief moment of surprise, Li Lan realized it.

Before he could react, all of a sudden, there was a loud bang in the sky, and a huge time-s.p.a.ce transmission crack appeared. A terrifying suction force gushed out and enveloped his body in an instant, pulling him into the crack.

“Time is up. Is the Sage Battlefield about to close? Does that mean that I can get out of this place alive?” Li Lan wondered.

He turned his head subconsciously.

He saw that instead of disappearing, the ghostly white-dressed woman tightly followed him, and was transmitted out through the time-s.p.a.ce cracks together with him.

“Who the h.e.l.l is she?” That was the last thought in Li Lan’s mind before he lost consciousness.

“Junior Sister Yiruo, eat something first. Senior Brother Ding will be fine.”

Zhang Fan scratched the back of his head. He didn’t know how to persuade this beautiful girl in front of him. Since she parted with Ding Hao, Li Yiruo had not eaten a thing. Every day, other than the short breaks, she went through crazy and endless cultivations. Although being a primordial master allowed her to survive for three or four months without eating or drinking, she still lost a lot of weight.

“Senior Brother Zhang, how many days are there before the Sage Battlefield closes?” Li Yiruo asked softly as she stood at the top of the Sword Tower.

Zhang Fan said decidedly, “The deadline is less than a day away.”

Li Yiruo had asked this question at least 11 times within a short period of time.

“Oh,” Li Yiruo replied. She turned her head, saying with a smile, “Senior Brother Zhang, I’m fine. You can go on practicing. You haven’t mastered more than half of the saber techniques and fighting skills on the second floor of the Saber Tower, have you?”

Zhang Fan once again unwittingly scratched the back of his head and said, “Well…I’m not as smart as Senior Brother Ding. I’ve only learned less than 20 saber techniques in the past three months. But I think Senior Brother Ding is right. Everyone has his own method and opportunities. I can just choose some of the most suitable saber techniques for myself. There’s no need to learn all of them.”

Li Yiruo continued with a smile, “That makes sense. However, I think that you should memorize all the saber techniques. Even if you don’t practice them, you can pa.s.s them to the right person in the future. Otherwise, it would be a pity that so many high-level saber techniques would stay unknown. I think that Brother Hao would also agree. That is why he left you here.”

“Well, is it because of this?” Zhang Fan scratched the back of his head and was suddenly enlightened, “You’re right. I’m really stupid. I didn’t know. I’ll note down all the saber techniques now.”

After that, the young hunter turned around and left.

Looking at Zhang Fan’s back, Li Yiruo smiled again.

She was slightly envious of him. He had always been simple and carefree, cultivating the saber techniques every day, thinking only about the Baiman Mountain and Ding Hao in his heart. Love didn’t bother him. For such a long time, she had not heard of Zhang Fan falling for any girl.

Perhaps girls were more easily affected by love.

Li Yiruo felt that she was about to become another person.

The self-conceited girl who used to look down on any man had almost lost her edge. Perhaps she was destined to be trapped by love the moment she saw the ragged young man who was cruel to her three years back by the Sword-cleansing Pond.

“I’m so lovesick. Why do I still enjoy it as ever?”

A hint of sadness appeared on Li Yiruo’s face.

She used to think she could match up to any man in the world. However, she lost that kind of confidence after seeing Brother Hao.

This time, she had watched Brother Hao enter the ancient westbound road alone, but she could not help him.

In fact, ever since they entered the Sage Battlefield, she seemed to have been a burden. Even this quota was obtained because of Brother Hao. Therefore, during these days, Li Yiruo swore to seize every minute and second to cultivate.

Counting with her fingers, since entering the Sage Battlefield, she had made rapid progress and had reached the peak of Inborn Martial Grandmaster Realm.

She had definitely been progressing by leaps and bounds.

However, compared to Brother Hao…

Li Yiruo couldn’t help sighing.

She knew clearly that if she still wanted to stay with Brother Hao, she had to find every way to improve her strength. As long as she followed him closely, she wouldn’t be abandoned by his world.

The Swordsmans.h.i.+p-seeking Sect, the Snow Province, and even the entire Northern Region might be too small for Brother Hao one day.

If she were only satisfied with being an ordinary master, then she wouldn’t even have the chance to watch Brother Hao from behind in the future.

Li Yiruo had mastered about ten among the hundreds of saber techniques on the second floor of the Sword Tower.

She spent more time on improving her Qi cultivation.