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"Oh, right!" Li Xiaoya suddenly remembered another important matter. He took out the necklace that had trapped Feng Chenzi and murmured, "Feng Chenzi said this necklace possesses incredible divine abilities, and it can protect me and imprison him. Clearly, it's no ordinary object, nor something an ordinary mortal could possess. Maybe my parents are still alive? Maybe I can still find them!" After staring at the necklace for a while, Li Xiaoya felt an even more urgent desire to escape.
He sprang to his feet and shouted resolutely, "All right! I'll cultivate hard and get out as soon as possible!" Then he pushed open the door and ran outside.
In a few quick strides, he reached the stone stele he had cracked that day. He drew the Fire Dragon Sword, poured surging magic power into it, and slashed with all his might. A deafening metallic clang rang out, and another crack appeared in the stele, thirty percent deeper than the previous one. His magic power was full now, and his cultivation had improved, so naturally his strike was considerably stronger. But he did not stop. Enduring the painful numbness jolting through both hands, he hacked at the breach again and again. An unbroken series of clangs echoed throughout the silent space.
He had no idea how long he had been hacking or how many strikes he had made. At last, his hands went numb, the webs between his thumbs and forefingers bled, and his magic power ran dry. He dropped onto his backside, panting heavily.
Fragments of the stone stele littered the ground, but the stele itself was over twenty feet wide and more than