The Gap! The Ultimate Throw! (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Votes)

Humans were very strange creatures.

The character for "person" was simple enough to write, formed with just a left-falling stroke and a right-falling stroke. But people themselves were far more complex than that simple character could convey. Especially when it came to feelings and emotions, humans were far richer than other living things.

The moment Jiang Dali saw A Lifetime of Arrogance, he knew the man had changed.

He still remembered discovering him during the Shaolin tournament. Beneath his seemingly cold exterior, he had hidden a deeply flamboyant nature. He would secretly clench his fists in excitement at the adoration of nearby players, and every so often pull a bronze mirror from his robes to tidy his windblown hair.

Of course, in Jiang Dali's eyes, those had merely been outward displays. What had truly changed was the impression the man now gave him.

"Feeling"—that too was a very subtle word.

Only because people had feelings could they describe those feelings through words, giving language its meaning.

Yet some feelings could not be accurately described even through language.

Jiang Dali could only say that A Lifetime of Arrogance had become like Ting Shui, Yidao, Guse Yiren, and the others: a player who had truly developed emotions and his own understanding of this world. That understanding had even risen to new insights into the martial arts he had learned, no longer limited to the pale player interface.

"I never expected Li Xunhuan to appear at Huo Family Manor. I never expected him to die at Xiong Ba's hands in the end."

After hearing A Lifetime of Arrogance recount the entire course of events, Jiang Dali nodded slightly, a strange gleam appearing in his eyes. "You saw it with your own eyes? Xiong Ba was injured by Li Xunhuan's throw?"

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