"Huff... This Quicksand Land is even stranger than I imagined. Deep beneath the yellow sand, that inexplicable devouring force actually knew how to exploit a weakness, as though it possessed consciousness!"
"Had Senior not lent a hand in time, this junior would most likely have met with disaster."
"Senior, you... saved this junior once again!"
Su Shi'er cupped his fists in salute, sighing with emotion as he thanked Liu Hua.
The latter waved his hand. "You flatter me. Even if I had not acted, with your abilities, did you truly have no other way to break free from that devouring force below? I intervened not entirely to help you, but also to verify a conjecture of my own."
As they spoke, the two exchanged a glance, contemplative looks flashing through both their eyes.
Su Shi'er merely smiled at Liu Hua's question and did not pursue the matter further.
Though the situation just now had been dangerous, he had been far from the end of his tether.
Over his many years on the path of cultivation, he had mastered no small number of Cultivation Methods and Secret Techniques.
Having secluded himself in the Ancient Immortal Sect for nearly sixty years and read countless books, he had also made up for much of the theoretical knowledge he had lacked along his cultivation path.
Moreover, among the hundreds of thousands of volumes in the Ancient Immortal Sect's Scripture Pavilion, many were no less valuable than the various Cultivation Methods and Secret Techniques he had acquired at Bai Zhang Market.
By now, he had mastered all of them.
Even if he had lacked the time to cultivate and familiarize himself with them, knowing more was itself a kind of enhancement to his strength.
"Did Senior's sword strike reveal anything?"
Lowering his head to look