336 Sorry for Stepping on Your Pain (1/2)

For Wang Lu's rebuttal, Aya was immediately left speechless. Liu Li's table manners was not ugly. Obviously, her master had carefully corrected her since she was a child. Each of her action was gentle and elegant—as long as the speed was slowed down one hundred times.

Moreover, although Liu Li has a pretty good appreciation for food, she was actually not a picky eater. In addition to the food that was extremely difficult to swallow (Aya's cooked food was automatically excluded), no matter what it was, she would eat it with relish. And her eating speed has always been stunningly fast. Though the two problems referred to by Wang Lu were indeed somewhat far-fetched, they were indeed questionable.

”Liu Li, what happened back then?”

Liu Li was very calm. Although at that time the kind magician told her not to talk to her Senior Brother about it, since her Senior Brother had asked it, of course she would not hide anything. Therefore, word for word, she retold the dialogue between her and the magician at that time. She could even vividly mimic the magician's tone of voice.

And after listening to this dialogue, anyone could detect that there was a problem there.

”... Is this a psychological attack?”

Wang Lu laughed. ”Isn't that obvious? If they want to target me, the best way is through Liu Li. But if they want to target Liu Li, common attack would not be effective.”

Although Liu Li seemed gullible, she was not an idiot. After years of training by her Master Zhou Ming, as well as Wang Lu's long-term tuning, her mind had already developed a strong resistance to common attacks. If someone wanted to trigger her negative emotions, making her feel guilty, shaken, confused… it was almost impossible. She has no negative emotions at all.

”However, what if it's a 'positive' attack? By inducing her to think about sacrifice, giving, and appealing to others; she is not invulnerable to those. Once there's something that happened to Liu Li, it would constitute a very lethal blow to me.”

”A very lethal blow?” Aya looked at Wang Lu somewhat in surprise. Does he mean that towards Liu Li, he...

Wang Lu said, ”For me, I can accept anyone on my team to get hurt, except Liu Li… There is absolutely nothing that can happen to her. If other people get into trouble, I will be responsible as the leader. At worst, I will just say it's a personnel's oversight. Because you guys are not children, you guys know how to take care of yourself. However, Liu Li is different. In this extremely unfamiliar continent, she has no way to survive alone. This is very different than the regular experiential learning down the mountain. According to the original intention of Uncle Zhou Ming, he did not want Liu Li to travel to Western Continent before reaching Jindan Stage. It was only because I strongly advocated for her that I was able to persuade Uncle Zhou Ming. Uncle Zhou Ming exhorted Liu Li to trust me in anything during this period, without reservation. He told her to not violate any of my orders, for fear that there would be a problem. Therefore, by the same token, it is my responsibility to fully take care of her.”

Upon hearing Wang Lu's explanation, Aya was quite touched. Responsibility was one of the virtues that were most important to Aya. More than one hundred years ago, when her country was torn apart and she was battered into a hopeless situation, it was the sense of responsibility towards Brettonia that drove her to continue living as the spirit of the brave departed until today. So what she appreciated the most was someone who has a strong sense of responsibility.

After giving his explanation, Wang Lu said to Liu Li, ”Liu Li, forget every word said by that person.”

Liu Li gawked for a moment, and then, still without asking anything, nodded. ”I understand, I will forget it!”

”Mm, good girl.” Wang Lu touched the girl's head. ”I have enough rest, let's continue our walk.”

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Before long, the few of them arrived at the end of the ladder.

The situation was very similar to the previous pass. After the ladder, there was an average grey stone gate that blocked their way. However, unlike the first few stone gates, this time, there were a lot of murals carved on the surface of the stone gate and on the stone walls around it. When Wang Lu and the others approached it, a wave-like ripple rippled on the stone gate, forming a vague face.

Then, with a very blunt and rigid voice, that face said, ”Welcome brave challengers. This time, you will not face the Golden King's guardian, but the same challenger as you. They have the same powerful strength as you, as well as the same cunning wisdom. It's tough, but to be the champion of Golden King, you have to prove your strength to your competitor.”

Wang Lu asked, ”How to prove?”

”To prove your qualification, you have to reach the Beautiful Unique Pool Peak and take the Sun God Stone.”

”Beautiful Unique Pool Peak? Sun God Stone?” Listening to these two completely unfamiliar names, Wang Lu could not help but find them strange. He then looked back towards Aya. As the scholar of Western Continent, if there was something strange in this land, it would not be wrong to ask her.