"Hm? What are you trying to say?" Wang Yan knew that although Card Fairy usually played dumb and joked around, often seeming rather scatterbrained, when she grew serious, she was almost like a teacher.
"A gentleman does not stand beneath a crumbling wall!" Card Fairy said solemnly. Coming from her strangely adorable, childlike voice, the words always lost some of their weight to Wang Yan. Her voice shifted, and she offered no further explanation, merely continuing, "Think it over carefully yourself!"
"Well... all right!" Wang Yan was taken aback...
A gentleman does not stand beneath a crumbling wall?
Wang Yan knew Card Fairy would not say something like that without reason. Fortunately, his mind was calm, and he sat down to think over everything that had happened since the war began...
Taken literally, it was simple enough: do not put yourself in danger.
That was right!
Since the war began, everything had seemingly gone smoothly for Wang Yan. Whenever he encountered danger, he managed to turn peril into safety, and even reap considerable benefits, acquiring all sorts of natural treasures...
In that case, it hardly counted as dangerous, did it?
No!
That was precisely what made it dangerous.
Wang Yan recalled the dangers he had faced lately. A single careless mistake could have reduced him to dust. Ever since the war between the Eight Great Sects of the Yunlin Two Kingdoms began, hundreds of cultivators had fallen every day. Even if he had not killed a hundred cultivators himself, he had killed seventy or eighty...
In this latest encounter alone, the Wicked Poison Sect had abandoned all the rules, sending a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator against their tiny Vanguard Team. If anything had gone wrong, he and the entire Vanguard Team would either have been slaughtered or taken prisoner, their