"What... what do you mean, boss...?"
Li Gou Dan panicked. This time... she was genuinely panicking!
She had suffered severe injuries before, but she had never been this panicked. She had always felt that she still had one final trump card she had yet to use. But now, that final trump card was telling her that she was going to die?
The short elder removed the silver hood he usually kept over his head. With a complicated expression, he gazed at this inverted world. "I originally thought that, with your aptitude, as long as your luck wasn't too bad, you might have had a chance to let me experience life once more..."
Li Gou Dan: "..."
What did "as long as your luck wasn't too bad" mean? Did that mean her luck was terrible now?
"Boss, what's going on? Don't keep me in suspense! I'm getting really scared!" Li Gou Dan looked as if she were about to cry...
"You did very well before..." The elder looked at Li Gou Dan and said solemnly, "My judgment was correct. Setting aside your astonishing talent and bloodline, you're a strong person to the core..."
Li Gou Dan was stunned. She knew he was praising her performance when she had fought desperately against that group of undead.
She became even more frightened. Ever since she had met this boss, he had never praised her so seriously... Could it be... that she had really run into major trouble today?
"I couldn't help you before, and it's the same now..." The elder sighed. "In the Emerald Starfield, I exhausted all my Mental Strength helping you. Before you reach the dragon rank, you can't help me recover even the slightest bit of my origin power. So even if those undead had beaten you to death just