Today's third update: Chapter 2881! 3/4!
This time, they had truly guessed wrong. It was true that Xu Kun had trained A Li in every conceivable aspect, but he had not left him with any life-saving measures.
It was not that Xu Kun could not do so. Rather, in his view, such measures would plant the suggestion in one's heart that no matter what happened, there was always a way out.
What he needed was for A Li to possess the drive and ability to press forward fearlessly, just as his personality dictated, and resolve every trouble he encountered. Leaving himself a way out would make it impossible to cultivate the mindset needed to grow through adversity.
Some might say, wasn't that a double standard?
After all, during Xu Kun's own path of growth, elders had stepped in to save him from danger.
And indeed, there had been several occasions when Xu Kun had drawn the intervention of the elders who cared about him.
But under what circumstances had those been?
When the Wolf Race saints had disregarded the rules and besieged him, prompting Uncle Yang to step in?
When he had been surrounded by the gods of the Titan Race, causing his parents to descend?
Or when, on the shores of the East Sea, he had awakened the Ancient East Sea and provoked Yazi, one of the Nine Dragon Ancestors, only for his eldest senior brother to calm the sea with a single strike of his staff?
Strictly speaking, Xu Kun's elders had never given him any of the life-saving items that were standard equipment for the prodigies of every race. If there was one, it would be the Vermilion Bird Feather Zhu Nan had given him in the Blazing God's Tomb.
Yet that life-saving item had made