Chapter 63: The Cliché Hero-Saves-the-Damsel Scene Appears

Among the rubble of scattered stones.

Shi Kong's entire body was radiating a murderous aura of fury, his gaze dark and terrifying. Just as he was about to eliminate Lv Qing'er, the biggest stumbling block about to be cleared, Li Luo had suddenly appeared out of nowhere and rescued her!

This result of failure at the final hurdle, even though Shi Kong was quite composed, still nearly drove him to explode with rage, and at this moment he wished he could tear Li Luo into ten thousand pieces.

Shi Kong's gaze swept around as he tried to sense Li Luo's trail, but to no avail. Li Luo and Lv Qing'er seemed to have turned invisible, impossible to detect.

After searching for a moment, Shi Kong knew this approach wouldn't work, so he took a deep breath, suppressed his emotions, turned back to the three frozen people—Xiang Liang and the others—and circulated his phase force, rescuing all three from the ice.

The three broke free of the ice, their faces a shade of purplish blue, their whole bodies shivering, clearly having been frozen quite badly.

After quite a while, the three gradually recovered somewhat.

Seeing this, Shi Kong said, "Lv Qing'er was rescued by Li Luo. Our mission isn't completely finished yet."

"The urgent task right now is to find them. Lv Qing'er was injured by me earlier, so she will certainly need some time to recover, and her 'Jade Ice Hand' is depleted of power and cannot be activated in the short term. So as long as we find her, eliminating her will be easy."

Xiang Liang and the others nodded upon hearing this.

They had put in so much effort; of course they didn't want it to be all for nothing.

"Relying on just the few of us, I'm afraid we don't have enough manpower. The terrain here is too complicated, so I suggest we spread the news that Lv Qing'er is seriously wounded. There are still other students in White Spirit Ruins now. If Lv Qing'er were at her peak, they naturally wouldn't dare harbor any ill intentions, but now that she's seriously wounded and carrying so many points, there will probably be bold ones who get ideas." Zong Fu suddenly said.

Once these words came out, they immediately drew agreement from the others, and even Shi Kong's eyes lit up slightly as he smiled and nodded.

"Move quickly, don't give them too much time."

Shi Kong gave the order, and immediately everyone got busy.

Outside White Spirit Mountain.

With Lv Qing'er suddenly being rescued by an unexpected person, countless sighs of relief immediately sounded outside the venue. After all, setting aside other factors, from a sensory standpoint, they naturally supported the pretty-looking Lv Qing'er, all the more so since she was the weaker side being ganged up on.

However, they also understood that Lv Qing'er had already been injured, and even if rescued, it would probably only delay the time of her elimination.

"The one who rescued Lv Qing'er seems to be the young manor master." Although Li Luo's figure flashed by in an instant, Cai Wei's eyesight was still quite good, and she vaguely made him out.

Yan Yan Lingqing tilted her chin slightly and nodded, saying, "Li Luo's hero-saving-the-damsel move is quite practiced, the timing and heat handled perfectly. Which young girl could resist that?"

Cai Wei said with a half-smile, "Could it be that Jiang Jiang Qinge is about to gain another rival?"

Yan Yan Lingqing said gleefully, "If that's the case, then there really will be a good show to watch."

They laughed here, but the atmosphere at the main pavilion remained heavy. However, with Lv Qing'er suddenly being rescued, the old dean's grim expression did ease somewhat.

But he still didn't speak, because he understood very well that at this stage, South Wind Academy had already begun to fall into a disadvantage.

With Lv Qing'er seriously wounded and her combat power impaired, it would be far too difficult for her to match Shi Kong again.

The Governor Shi beside him calmly sipped his tea, not turning livid just because Lv Qing'er had been rescued. He likewise knew that even though an unexpected turn had occurred at the last moment, this turn had come a little too late.

Lv Qing'er was no longer the biggest problem.

As long as Shi Kong found her next, took her points, everything would be over.

When that time came, the gold-lettered signboard of the number one academy in Tian Shu Prefecture would fall upon East Abyss Academy.

Thinking of this, the corner of Governor Shi's mouth couldn't help but curve into a faint smile.

Right, the one who saved her just now was that Li Luo, right? These people from Luo Lan Fu are still as annoying as ever. But it doesn't matter—as long as he continues to govern Tian Shu Prefecture going forward, there will be ways to gradually nibble away and topple Luo Lan Fu's businesses here.

Somewhere in White Spirit Ruins, inside a tree hollow of a large tree growing from the broken walls and ruins, Li Luo gently set Lv Qing'er down from his arms.

He lowered his head and saw that Lv Qing'er's gaze was fixed intently on his face.

"Although I know this kind of hero-saving-the-damsel is too lethal for you, I still hope you can restrain yourself." Li Luo said thoughtfully.

Lv Qing'er gave a light spit, then her willow brows furrowed slightly. The stabbing pain from within her body let her know her injuries were not light.

"How are your injuries?" Li Luo asked upon seeing this.

Lv Qing'er sighed, a bit dejected: "Quite serious. I'm afraid my combat power will drop sharply from here on. I really was too careless."

"That's troublesome. Now Shi Kong and the others should be searching for us like mad. If he's smart, he'll even stir up the other students. We'll be dug out sooner or later." Li Luo frowned and said.

"I'm sorry." Lv Qing'er said, lowering her head.

"What are you apologizing for?" Li Luo asked, puzzled.

"I failed to take first place and let down your expectations. This will also cause South Wind Academy to lose its extra admission quota." Lv Qing'er said softly.

"What does that have to do with you? Admission quotas have to be fought for by oneself. If you can take first place and earn an extra quota, that's your ability. If you can't take first place, then it's just bad luck for the other South Wind Academy students." Li Luo said irritably.

"The Lv Qing'er I know isn't this melodramatic. Did getting hit make you stupid?"

Lv Qing'er glared at Li Luo angrily and said, "You're the one who got hit stupid."

Li Luo smiled and said, "Oh right, I almost forgot. Even though you're injured, I'm a water phase! I can help you heal!"

"My injuries, in such a short time I'm afraid they can't fully recover." Lv Qing'er said hesitantly.

"Recover what we can." Li Luo said. His "Water Light Phase" was extremely special—both the water phase and the light phase possessed healing effects. With these two stacked together, it should have miraculous effects on healing.

So he extended his palm and held Lv Qing'er's slender, fair little hand.

However, the moment he grabbed it, Lv Qing'er flinched as if electrocuted, yanking her hand back sharply. Her fair, crystalline, beautiful face turned beet red, and her beautiful eyes glared at Li Luo in embarrassment and annoyance: "Pervert! What are you doing!"

Li Luo was also startled by her violent reaction, then said with a bitter smile, "Using my water phase power to heal you."

Lv Qing'er stammered, "Th-then don't hold my hand either."

Li Luo scratched his head, speechless: "My phase force is shallow, so the effect weakens through clothing. How about you turn around and I'll pull your clothes down a bit."

Lv Qing'er bit her little white teeth, looking at him in shy fury, like a fierce little tigress.

"Forget the treatment! Too hard to serve! Let's just stay here and wait to be eliminated." Li Luo also got angry. Girls are just troublesome—even healing an injury has to be this drawn-out.

I, Li Luo, also have a temper!

"Don't."

Seeing that he was about to get up, Lv Qing'er hurriedly stopped him, then lowered her head and said, "I was wrong. Just continue the healing."

Li Luo gave a light snort, then sat down, extended his palm, and roughly grabbed Lv Qing'er's little hand. But then again, perhaps because of the secret art she cultivated, her little hand was delicate and cool, with a jade-like texture that made one want to toy with it.

But Li Luo kept a straight face and quickly circulated the phase force within his body. Blue phase force surged along his palm and began streaming into Lv Qing'er's body one stream after another, healing her injuries.

And as Li Luo's water phase power poured into her body, a hint of surprise flashed through Lv Qing'er's eyes, because she found that Li Luo's water phase power was extremely pure, and the healing effect was also better than she had imagined.

A faint, gentle sensation spread from the injured spot within his body, driving away the stabbing pain.

Lü Qing'er glanced at the small hand Li Luo was gripping, her pearly teeth tightly biting her red lips. She tilted her head slightly, letting her long hair cover half of her pretty face, because at this moment her complexion was flushed a deep crimson, and her whole body was trembling faintly — a look that would never normally appear on her.

Lü Qing'er actually wasn't resisting Li Luo holding her hand; it was just that, because she cultivated the "Jade Ice Hand," her hands became extremely sensitive when she wasn't circulating her resonant power. So normally she would wear ice-silkworm silk gloves, never letting anyone touch her hands.

But now, this Li Luo had recklessly charged in, grabbed her hand, and even thrown a tantrum demanding she bow her head and admit she was wrong. Thinking of this, the always-proud Lü Qing'er felt a little wronged.

(End of this chapter)