Trials

Are you afraid of failure?

It depends mainly on the price of failure.

Faced with His question, Tie Li gave no answer, because he did not know how he should answer it.

"If you fail the Thunder God's Ninth Trial, the price you pay will not only be your life. She will also be completely sealed within god-grade mysterious ice, her life slowly worn away as she waits for death to come in endless solitude;

A human life lasts only a hundred years, but god-grade mysterious ice will greatly slow the passage of life. Perhaps it will be ten thousand years, or perhaps even a hundred thousand years;

But you should also be grateful for one thing. Because of her sacrifice, you gained the chance to undergo training before the Ninth Trial begins. Only then might you complete the Ninth Trial. Though I do not know how you saw through it, it seems that from the very beginning, you never regarded me as the Thunder God."

Within the empty space, a phantom appeared before Tie Li. It was Zhu Zhuqing, encased in ice. She had fallen asleep, while a faint smile rested on Ice Spirit's face.

At the sight, Tie Li suddenly clenched his hands tightly.

Ever since accepting the Thunder God's inheritance, what he had feared most was failing the Thunder God Nine Trials and paying with his life. That would leave Zhu Zhuqing alone once more to face hardship on her own.

Because Tie Li knew that what Zhu Zhuqing feared and hated most was being abandoned. If he died in the Thunder God Nine Trials, would that not also count as abandoning her?

What he saw now laid that possibility bare.

I am willing to give everything for you, but will you abandon me?

At that moment,