Xayah

After scratching his head, Li Ke sighed. He decided not to rush out just yet and to focus on getting stronger first.

Once he was strong enough to handle most problems with Yone's sword without using Overdrive, he wouldn't have to worry about being exposed.

After he'd grown stronger, he naturally wouldn't have anything to fear!

In short, getting stronger came first!

With that in mind, Li Ke got ready. He rested the sword on his knees, swallowed another pill, and began meditating to speed up his mental recovery.

The boost this sword gave his mental strength was simply terrifying. Normally, it would take him more than ten hours to recover, but with the sword's help, he was ready to simulate again in less than five.

"First, I'll simulate what might happen on the road if I don't go to Irelia's place. Then I'll try to reach the Arad Continent and get some more advanced swordsmanship!"

The previous simulation had only served to scout ahead, so Li Ke had to waste another opportunity.

But before this simulation, Li Ke decided to stay far away from Irelia's house. That woman was poison. The moment he saw her, he'd completely forgotten his sect's mission.

So this time, he would absolutely keep his distance.

He'd stayed at Irelia's house last time because his backside had been injured from riding in a shoddy carriage. So as long as he didn't hurt it this time, everything should be fine!

"Watch your backside, watch your backside."

After repeating it to himself a few times, Li Ke started the simulation again, once more choosing vague memories.

On the first day, you boarded a shoddy carriage, but you'd prepared ahead of time and bought a soft cushion to protect your backside. While all the other passengers were suffering terribly, you calmly said you could handle more.

On the second day, you passed through a small town. Nothing happened.

On the third day, you passed through another small town. You saw a girl with a very shapely backside. After asking around, you learned she was Irelia. Though you wanted to stay, you immediately climbed back into the carriage to avoid being seen with Irelia's family's ancestral sword, wrapped in black cloth.

On the third day, you passed through a town and encountered Noxian spies eliminating witnesses. You fought them, but everyone traveling with you still died. You were the only one who survived after killing your enemies.

"Noxian spies?!"

Li Ke was startled. The Noxian War Masons were notorious. Before Noxus went to war, they would infiltrate their targets and take up positions among every class of society.

They gathered intelligence, infiltrated, bribed, and assassinated people. They also provided cover for Noxus's assassin groups.

With their help, Noxus could easily defeat one country after another and continually expand its territory.

He just hadn't expected the War Masons to be able to slaughter a whole village in Placidium, right in the heart of Ionia!

That was ridiculous!

But when he thought about how Ionian society was much like a tribal system, Li Ke could only sigh.

When a militaristic nation fought a country with a tribal system, wasn't this exactly what you'd expect?

Li Ke sighed softly, but continued reading.

On the fourth day, another group of assassins came after you. You drew Irelia's ancestral sword and killed them all. The good news was that nobody saw what happened.

On the fifth day, the Noxians seemed to have given up chasing you. You continued toward your destination in the carriage driver's horse-drawn cart and warned the nearby towns to be on their guard against Noxians.

On the sixth day, you bathed in a river, but accidentally disturbed a Vastaya. The two of you fought fiercely. She used her feathers to snap the sword Yone had given you, forcing you to draw Irelia's ancestral sword again and burn away all the feathers she shot at you.

You captured the Vastaya and noticed that she had a very shapely backside.

On the seventh day, after you spoke to her amiably, the Vastaya, with a sword at her throat, told you her name: "Xayah."

On the eighth day, you and Xayah set off together. You praised her beauty and her shapely backside, but she responded by nearly shooting a hole through your pants with her feathers.

On the ninth day, you and Xayah came across a lovely young woman bent over as she worked the fields. Xayah said she was enslaving nature, while you remarked that the girl had a very shapely backside.

She heard you.

You and Xayah were chased and beaten by the villagers.

After you escaped, Xayah attacked you, but she was no match for you and got beaten up again.

On the tenth day, you fell into a dangerous ravine together. With no food in sight, you looked at Xayah's wings and asked a question you shouldn't have.

Xayah flapped her wings and raked you with her claws.

You praised her shapely backside again.

She beat you up again.

On the eleventh day, you were attacked. Xayah tried to leave on her own, but got hurt and poisoned, leaving her unable to move.

On the twelfth day, you carried Xayah up a sheer cliff. But as the price you paid, Irelia's ancestral sword, which you'd used as a climbing tool, was left at the bottom of the ravine.

On the thirteenth day, Xayah woke up.

On the twenty-fourth day, Xayah returned with Irelia's ancestral sword, which you'd given up on recovering. When you asked how she'd managed it, she turned away without saying a word.

But you noticed her hand was injured, clearly from climbing.

On the thirtieth day, you finally reached your destination. Xayah watched you enter the village, then left, taking the new sword you'd bought with her.

In the second month, someone was messing around on your roof. You went outside and found Xayah fighting a fox with a very shapely backside. When she saw you, Xayah snorted, accused you of letting your guard down, and ran off.

In the third month, you found the fox who had fought Xayah. You became friends, and discovered that she relied on memories to make food, which could conveniently solve your mental derangement problem. So you invited her to live with you, and the fox, hoping for a stable food supply, agreed.

That night, you were beaten up in the village by a masked person with a very shapely backside, leaving feathers stuck all over you.

In the fourth month, Xayah said she had nowhere to stay and moved in with you.

In the fifth month, your house was destroyed in a fight between the bird and the fox. You praised both the fox's and the bird's shapely backsides, and the fox said she'd never forgive you.

That night, you were beaten up by a masked person with a very shapely backside and nine tails.

Then a feather got stuck in your backside.

In the sixth month, you, the fox, and Xayah built a new house together. That same month, the fox kissed you, and you were beaten up again by the masked person with a very shapely backside.

"..."

By the time Li Ke reached this part, he couldn't keep reading.

I told you to watch your backside!

But not other people's backsides!