"If you want me to fight you head-on, then I'll pass."
The moment Yang Ming pulled out the Emperor Sword, Lu Cang had indeed sensed danger.
If Yang Ming used the Emperor Sword to fight him with everything he had, meeting him head-on, Lu Cang really might lose. The Emperor Sword had made him feel that danger.
Lu Cang couldn't use foresight here, either.
So he could only take the most cautious approach.
After all, if he couldn't beat Yang Ming, his advancement would still succeed...
That was right: succeed, not fail.
Because even if he lost to Yang Ming, his advancement would still succeed. If failing to beat Yang Ming meant he couldn't advance, then not a single genius Warrior in the world would be able to advance.
But if he lost, Lu Cang felt that there would be a flaw in his Warrior's path.
The flaw of having lost to someone of equal rank.
It wasn't that Lu Cang had never lost. But every time he did, it wasn't against someone of equal rank. He'd lost only when he was completely and unreasonably overwhelmed by a gap in levels.
If he truly lost a battle against someone of equal rank,
then his undefeated heart would no longer be perfect.
Lu Cang planned to preserve that undefeated heart for his future attempt to reach level 9 as a Warrior.
As for the Warrior's principles,
everyone understood battle differently. A pure Warrior might be more obsessed with fighting, savoring the thrill of battle so much that they became lost in it and forgot what mattered more.
But Lu Cang was different.
Lu Cang held several classes. He did enjoy the thrill of battle, and when he fought seriously, he could lose himself in it and savor the experience.
At the