Li Changge shook his head. "What display of divine might? It was nothing more than a desperate struggle in a hopeless situation.
"I'd already made up my mind then. If that strike failed, I'd immediately take Life-Saving Pills and forcibly burn my Primordial Spirit to flee.
"I never expected to kill that Demon Beast by chance and even break through in the process.
"The result was that I couldn't find a suitable place to stabilize my cultivation, so I could only disregard everything and enter seclusion right there.
"If you hadn't stood guard for me, junior brother, my seclusion would most likely have been disrupted. It would've taken at least a hundred years to recover.
"I owe my cultivation today to all the times you've looked after me, junior brother."
Xu Changxing hurriedly waved his hand. "What are you saying, senior brother?
"You slew a Great Demon while you were only an Origin Immortal. I didn't help in the slightest.
"As for standing guard this time, it was just something I did in passing.
"Even without me, your life wouldn't have been in danger."
But Li Changge waved his hand. "I'm not just talking about this time.
"Over these past few years, while stabilizing my True Immortal cultivation, I reviewed all my memories, from when I first began cultivating until now.
"From the very beginning of my cultivation, my talent for the Sword Dao far surpassed that of others.
"Though you later shone with boundless brilliance, I still never felt inferior to anyone in the way of the sword.
"But precisely because I pursued the way of the sword to such an extreme, I would most likely have ended up like that ultimate sword light, shattering into countless fragments after releasing its dazzling radiance.
"Back at the Setting Sun Sect,