Old Friend

Huo Yuan's single sentence completely cut off Yue Wuxiang's train of thought.

He opened his mouth to speak, his lips twitching slightly, yet his throat felt clogged and he could not make a sound.

Li Qingwan's successful conversion to the Soldier Path had already come as an enormous surprise to him.

The Soldier Path's inheritance had long been severed throughout the entire Azure Waves Continent. Consort Xi had only obtained this inheritance after achieving sudden enlightenment on the battlefield through a fortunate coincidence.

In Lanyue Sect's view, Li Qingwan was not of the military school and had never set foot on a battlefield before this.

Under such circumstances, trying to change her fate by switching from the Chess Path to the Soldier Path was nothing but a fool's dream.

Even if she were given fifteen years, so what?

This was plainly something that could never be accomplished.

In truth, judging from Li Qingwan's subsequent conversion process, Lanyue Sect's prediction had not been wrong.

Facing that military cultivator's tribulation of "rust corroding body and soul," Li Qingwan truly had found it difficult to cross it through her own strength.

When Chen Yang had met this female cultivator of the Li Family in the Evil Extermination Division years ago, she had already had one foot in the grave.

Without outside help, once that tribulation erupted, Li Qingwan would have been completely devoured by that "rust."

Failing to conceal her edge, she would have become a puddle of broken iron and shattered stone, reduced to a cripple.

Had she met such an end, the Tiger Chasing Grand Preceptor would certainly have personally intervened, forcibly preserving her life with True Intent methods. Then, once the fifteen-year deadline arrived, he would hand her over to Lanyue Sect.

Yet the cultivators of Lanyue Sect could not