"Don't be too optimistic. My golden body hasn't recovered; I'm still a lump of mangled flesh. I can barely attack. If we run into a high-rank fighter, I might be able to kill them in one or two moves after I erupt—or I might not. But after that outburst, I'll probably shatter again. Do you have any Life Essence left?"
Li Changsheng cursed as he cleared a path ahead.
"I still have some," Fang Ping answered.
"Good lad, you really dug up their roots. No wonder they're chasing you so desperately. If we can make it out alive this time, this old man's life will be yours. We'll have to risk everything to get out now. You went to such trouble to save me, so I'd die unwillingly."
Li Changsheng spoke.
"Then when I become the president of Magic Martial University, you'll have to support me, old man."
"You brat—what time is this to be saying that?" Li Changsheng was so exasperated he laughed. At a moment like this, the fellow was talking about that? And he was only Rank Four, yet he already wanted to become Magic Martial University's president. He truly had no regard for Wu Kuishan.
"Fine. If we make it back this time, I'll personally drag Wu Kuishan down and make you president. But you'd better stay alive. Don't go dying on me."
As they spoke, a figure burst through the underground soil ahead and lunged at them in an instant.
Without a second thought, Old Li roared. The Chaos-Pacifying Blade erupted with an incomparably intense bloody gleam as he slashed out. The earth shook, and the passage collapsed outright.
"Pour energy into me!"
Old Li shouted as he dug downward. They could not flee upward. A Rank Nine demon plant guarded the surface; the instant