Li Fan slowly opened his eyes and saw an unfamiliar ceiling.
He abruptly sat up, but an extreme sense of weakness surged through his body.
"It's gone. That's impossible!!!" His eyes were bloodshot, and he looked like a crazed beast.
His Arcane Treasure had vanished, and with it, his power. How could he not go mad? This was the era of Arcane Treasures, an era in which everyone possessed one—except him. At the thought of those he had once offended coming back for revenge, what kind of fate would await him? Fortunately, he gradually calmed down.
"Find Lu Xingshi and take my Endless Sword back from him!" He quickly recalled everything. During his battle with Lu Xingshi, he had only been one move away from piercing through him.
In the end, he had fallen one move short, and the whole game had been lost.
That meant his true strength was evenly matched with Lu Xingshi's.
But he soon realized something: without the Endless Sword, how could he restore his true power? Much less seize the Endless Sword back from the other man.
To reclaim the Endless Sword, he needed the Endless Sword to restore his Sword God power, yet he did not have the Endless Sword.
The entire matter had fallen into an unsolvable dead loop.
"No, why didn't he kill me? And who saved me???" Li Fan suddenly realized this.
In the final moment before he lost consciousness, his opponent had clearly intended to kill him. Yet not only had he survived, someone had even taken him away.
"You're awake? Lie back down already. You're exhausted to the point of collapsing, yet instead of resting properly, why are you climbing up?" A familiar voice that Li Fan had not heard in a long time drifted over.
He turned his