Legend of the Great Sage Chapter 895 - Before the Battle

“Do I look alright?”

Li Qingshan controlled the wind and emitted a hollow voice through his toothy mouth.

“As long as you’re not dead,” Gong Yuan said coldly, but she felt relieved inside. She said an ambiguous thanks.

“I told you to trust me, so I would never let you die! Anyway, you’ve done very well this time. It’s just a pity that we were still one step too slow, or we could have gathered even more power of Ruin’s End and perhaps forcefully taken on that strike! What a pity, what a pity!”

Li Qingshan shook his head and sighed. He felt a little embarrassed by Gong Yuan’s thanks. If it were not for the fact that he did not have a face right now, he might have even blushed.

That was because in the moment the Divine Ray of the Sun arrived, his instinctive response was to use Gong Yuan as a meat shield so that he could block the attack slightly. The first reason why he had dismissed that idea was because he had just told her to trust him, yet he would be using her as a shield in the next moment. He found that a little unacceptable. On top of that, the spirit turtle had calculated that this strike would not be lethal. If he did that, then it would diminish the tiger demon’s might.

The latter was clearly of greater significance than the former. If he knew taking that on the strike would cost him his life, then who the fuck still cared about whether it was acceptable or not? It was not like they were close. He was nowhere near fond enough of women to give up his life for one that loathed him.

“That’s right. Before the storm arrives, we need to get some practise together so that we can unleash the true might of the Heart of the Abyss and contend against the Divine Fire tablets of the fire devourers.”

“Hehe, dual cultivation doesn’t feel too bad, does it?” Even when he had been reduced to a set of bones, he could still give off the same aura that Gong Yuan loathed.

Gong Yuan frowned. “Don’t get the wrong idea. This is just to deal with Fire Melt mountain. You may have saved my life this time, but that goes without saying

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