Chapter 81

Chapter 81: I Will Remember You

When did Li Shuang learn to be this snarky? Chang Le An clenched his teeth and said: “You are clearly setting us up on purpose.”

Li Shuang widened her eyes as if shocked and said: “What? Me, framing you? No, not at all. Junior Brother, Junior Sister, hurry and run, I will hold him here.”

Chang Le An fell silent.

He wanted to run, but she kept dragging the Winged Lion Beast toward them.

He shot a resentful look at Yan Xiao. They had failed to get away, but the one person who never tried to run, Yan Xiao, had stayed far from the fight and stood there without a scratch. Li Shuang was clearly targeting them.

Another blow fell.

This time Chang Le An dodged on instinct.

Red lines scored Ye Zhao Zhao’s face. She cried out and looked at Chang Le An with venom in her eyes.

Everything had been fine. Why did he dodge that one?

“Zhao Zhao, I…” Chang Le An fumbled for an explanation, but there was no time.

Attacks kept pouring down. Li Shuang fought the Winged Lion Beast at a rapid pace. With the Sword Domain, she could always slip away. Chang Le An and Ye Zhao Zhao could not. As they ran, more and more cuts opened on their bodies.

Chang Le An finally snapped. He stopped and said through his teeth: “Zhao Zhao, let us kill the Winged Lion Beast together.”

If they did not kill it, Li Shuang would keep dragging it to them. Neither of them would survive.

Ye Zhao Zhao had no choice and agreed.

“Oh, Junior Brother and Junior Sister, you are volunteering to help? You two are so kind,” Li Shuang drawled, then flashed away, leaving the front line to Chang Le An and Ye Zhao Zhao.

The two of them were speechless.

Could they curse?

No?

Then they had nothing to say.

They were collapsing inside, but they had no way out and could only grit their teeth and face the beast.

Li Shuang watched calmly.

The Winged Lion Beast had speed to spare, but it lacked raw power. Its style was dense, wave after wave, but each single blow was not that strong. Inside her Sword Domain she could avoid every strike.

For her, the beast was not hard to handle.

But easy or not, since Chang Le An and Ye Zhao Zhao had meant her harm, she had no reason to let them use her.

“Li Shuang, are you just going to watch us die?” Chang Le An panted as he blocked again, almost crazed. “You know the token is recording this. If you do not save us, the sect will punish you.”

Li Shuang answered evenly: “Do not rush, Junior Brother Chang. Hold on a little longer. I am studying the Winged Lion Beast for an opening.”

“How long will you study?” he shouted.

“Soon,” she said, face calm.

Chang Le An and Ye Zhao Zhao tried to copy her and pull the beast’s attacks toward Li Shuang, but her Sword Domain was already spread wide. Those scattered strikes were easy for her to avoid. Stranger still, once Li Shuang withdrew from the main clash, the Winged Lion Beast stopped caring about her. It focused only on the two of them.

They could not help wondering if Li Shuang had teamed up with the beast to toy with them.

Chang Le An sank deeper into despair.

Were they really going to use their tokens and teleport out, ending their trip to the realm?

Ye Zhao Zhao shot Li Shuang a look full of resentment.

She had never seen anyone as vicious as Li Shuang. Their wounds grew, and Li Shuang still had no intention of helping.

Ye Zhao Zhao’s hands trembled.

She could not be knocked out this early. She had not gathered enough supplies, and she had not killed Li Shuang. Without those, she could not face Immortal Ling Xu’s anger or the System’s punishment.

There was only one way.

[System,] Ye Zhao Zhao gritted her teeth in her heart, [if I get kicked out here, I cannot repay what you fronted me.]

The System’s cold voice sounded: “What do you want.”

Ye Zhao Zhao drew a deep breath and said in her mind: [Unseal my strength for one breath. But mask my spiritual energy so no one else can tell that I used Nascent Soul Stage power inside the secret realm.]

Otherwise Li Shuang would just hide in the Outer Zone like a turtle.

“Last time,” the System said after a pause.

Joy flashed through Ye Zhao Zhao.

The last time meant permission.

She grabbed Chang Le An’s arm and unsealed the power of the Nascent Soul Stage without hesitation.

With Nascent Soul Stage strength, she could have killed the Winged Lion Beast easily.

But why kill it?

She gave Li Shuang a hateful look, then pulled Chang Le An and shot away.

At Nascent Soul Stage, her speed was over a hundred times that of the Qi Refining Stage. In a blink, the two of them vanished from sight.

Her face cooled. She only had ten breaths of Nascent Soul Stage in total, and she had been forced to spend one breath early. Let Li Shuang suffer the Winged Lion Beast.

Her sudden burst of speed stunned both the Winged Lion Beast and Li Shuang.

Li Shuang frowned. A moment ago, Ye Zhao Zhao must have used some sort of speed talisman. To reach that level, it had to be high grade. That was a reasonable explanation, yet [something still felt off].

With Ye Zhao Zhao and Chang Le An gone, the Winged Lion Beast did not attack Li Shuang. It said coldly: “Neither of us can do anything to the other. I will not waste time with you.”

It spread its wings to leave.

“Neither of us can do anything to the other?” Li Shuang smiled.

She moved, and her sword flashed, striking the beast’s left wing.

“You!” the Winged Lion Beast roared. “Do not push your luck!”

Li Shuang’s expression did not change as her fierce sword art fully bloomed.

The beast was crushed at once.

[Is she really at the Qi Refining Stage?] The Winged Lion Beast was secretly shocked. She had been hiding her strength earlier.

After a few exchanges, it tried to run, but Li Shuang’s sword light was always waiting where it wanted to flee. It had no choice but to keep fighting.

Inside the Sword Domain, the air grew colder and colder. The longer the battle lasted, the stronger Li Shuang became.

“Shua!” Her blade chopped down.

The beast jerked aside, but it could not fully escape. Its already injured left wing lagged for a split second. Li Shuang’s sword severed it cleanly.

The next strike followed at once.

A flash of despair crossed the beast’s eyes. It gritted its teeth and said: “I will remember you!”

White light flared the next instant.

The Winged Lion Beast left the Langya Secret Realm.

Li Shuang calmly sheathed her sword.

The Demon Clan must have something like a Teleportation Token. This beast had returned to the Demon Clan.

It did not matter.

It had escaped death today. Next time they met, it would die.