While Liu Bai and the others were still guessing who would become the final Spirit Crown Holder, the battle among the fifty youths within the mountain had already reached a fever pitch.
Among the crowd were two youths who looked almost identical. One held a stone axe, the other a stone shield, and they cowered less than a hundred meters from the summit, staring fearfully at the figure before them.
The figure before them was a girl, a beautiful girl dressed in black with a longsword on her back.
Just moments ago, she had severed the Stone Brothers' stone axe and stone shield with a single strike, frightening the wits out of them. Faced with the girl blocking their path, they no longer had even the slightest courage to charge toward the summit.
"Luo Li, you..."
Behind the black-clothed girl Luo Li, Wen Qingxuan looked at her with a complicated expression.
According to the latter's original plan, Wen Qingxuan was supposed to hold off the armies outside, then personally hand the flag representing the Spirit Crown Holder to this girl, preferably while sustaining a few injuries herself...
After all, there was nothing shameful about courting a girl.
But why had the situation suddenly reversed?
"Qingxuan, you should know about the grudge between Ji Xuan and me. He is my target this time, so you should go up first..."
Well, that was a perfectly normal thing to say.
After all, Ji Xuan had once driven her and Mu Chen into a corner, with no escape above or below. In the end, he had even caused Mu Chen to be expelled from the Spirit Road. Given Luo Li's temperament, she certainly would not let go of such a deep hatred over the mere title of Spirit Crown Holder.
Yet in Wen Qingxuan's