About a quarter of an hour later, he had finished hearing what had happened at the academy and the predicament the New Method currently faced.
Li Su, who had been rather beside himself with anger, now looked at the two middle-aged men before him with a strange expression. A feeling called "absurdity" took root in his heart, something he rarely experienced.
He, Li Su, had come to this strange world to seek opportunities and get cultivation methods for free.
Yet things had turned around. Now the people of this strange world wanted him, the freeloader, to help save the New Method. They intended to "freeload" off him instead.
As absurd as this turn of events was, Li Su really could not simply stand by and watch the New Method disappear.
After all, this was not the "normal" ending. It was completely different from the course of events his nominal senior sister and the others had described. If it ended this way and the verdict was death rather than departure, he would have nowhere to cry over his regrets.
Drawing a deep breath, Li Su slowly said, "So, there are still ten years left. If the current situation can't be changed within those ten years, the New Method will be abolished."
"No. To be precise, there are only three years!"
Elder Bai shook his head. "They've unrolled the map and revealed the dagger. They won't use Langhuan Blessed Land in the major competition to finish things off. Instead, they'll use the Military Service Department in the minor competition to crush the New Method completely, proving that it's utterly worthless and casting it into the abyss, so it can never turn things around."
"After all, the New Method has consumed so many resources over nearly sixty years. Losing to Langhuan Blessed Land