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After a long while, the ancient voice finally rang in Chen Guan's mind, filled with incomprehensible confusion.

"Just...because it's troublesome?"

This reason was clearly more unacceptable to the Tower King than being cleaved in two by a sword.

"Trouble is the biggest problem in the world." Chen Guan's answer was not at all joking.

This cowardly posture completely silenced the Tower King.

His elaborate rhetoric, prepared over thousands of years, was completely wasted.

He couldn't understand how anyone could choose to retreat in the face of supreme power that was within reach.

They retreated twice.

The Tower King is a life created by the Lord of Nothingness. In his memory, his master always looked very anxious.

Despite already being the strongest in the world, he is still anxious and desperately craves even greater power.

The Tower King couldn't understand what it was that kept chasing after the Lord of Nothingness to become stronger. In his view, the Lord of Nothingness, being the number one in the world, must be doing this because He had a heart that yearned for martial arts.

If that's the case, why does this person look like a salted fish? Could he have mistaken me for someone else?

No, that's impossible. The Tower King fell into deep thought.

"I see."

After a moment's thought, the ancient obsession vanished from the Tower King's voice, leaving only a hint of self-mocking relief.

"The throne was never the path prepared for you; I was wrong."

"You reject all predetermined paths; your path lies neither in the past nor in the present."

Chen Guan raised an eyebrow but didn't speak. So what? What is this guy keeping secret again?

"Go away. If you don't plan to come back, pretend I don't exist. If you do plan to come back, I'll always be here."

Having said that, the Tower King turned around, leaving behind only a desolate silhouette.

Chen Guan stared at the figure in front of him, speechless. He then reached back and took the leopard, which was still perched on his head like a small purple hat, down and held it in his arms.

The little guy felt incredibly light, and his warm body temperature emanated through his clothes, which was reassuring.

They're much better than these riddle-solving people.

Chen Guan turned around and walked towards the tower-like figure at the edge of the platform.

"you……"

Li Yan had just uttered a single word when Chen Guan raised his hand to interrupt him.

"Teacher, don't ask yet."

Chen Guan looked exhausted. He interrupted Li Yan's spellcasting, picked up the cat, and walked straight past Li Yan toward the spiral staircase leading to the lower level.

He had already guessed what questions Li Yan was going to ask.

Stop being so dense, think faster!

"stop."

"You have to give me an explanation of what just happened."

"Why did you stop? Why did it give up attacking? You two have been standing there for almost ten minutes. What were you doing?"

A barrage of questions came crashing down on us like cannonballs.

Chen Guan seemed to think about it seriously for a moment, and then suddenly realized.

"Oh, that one."

He gestured with his chin toward the lonely throne in the center of the platform and said in a pure and innocent tone, "Perhaps I'm too handsome, and he was intimidated by my domineering aura, so he decided to abandon the darkness and come to the light."

Anyway, Chen Guan couldn't come up with a proper explanation in a short time, so he might as well just reply randomly after reading it.

Li Yan's facial muscles twitched violently, and a vein on his forehead throbbed.

The fist hardened.

He really wanted to punch this grinning kid in front of him and see if he could bring his head back to normal.

Are you not even willing to offer a perfunctory response?

At that moment, a childish voice rang out.

"You're not as handsome as my owner."

The voice wasn't loud, but every word was clear, carrying an undeniable certainty.

Li Yan's muscles froze instantly.

He lowered his head, his gaze falling on the little leopard in his arms.

The leopard was raising its little head, its golden vertical pupils filled with seriousness.

Li Yan's mouth slowly opened.

This thing in front of me... this little thing that has just finished evolving.

It can not only speak, but also pronounces clearly, and even knows how to use comparatives.

This is no longer just enlightenment; it's about possessing independent logic and aesthetics.

"It...it..."

Li Yan pointed at the leopard for a long time, but couldn't utter a single complete sentence.

The murderous aura he had previously displayed was completely washed away by this sudden shock of realization.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you about the teacher."

Chen Guan seized the opportunity and said, "My leopard is very intelligent, and it's already registered; it's a legal monster."

He patted the leopard's little head, and the leopard immediately cooperated by letting out a soft, sweet howl and rubbing its head against Chen Guan's chin. The man and the leopard were perfectly in sync.

Looking at this scene, Li Yan felt that all the knowledge he had about void creatures had become a pile of waste paper.

"How much time do we have left?" Chen Guan suddenly asked.

"Huh?" Li Yan's brain was still blank, and he subconsciously replied, "There are... a few more days."

"That's great."

Chen Guan's eyes lit up, his face beaming with joy at seeing a treasure trove: "Teacher, this is a golden opportunity!"

He looked at Li Yan earnestly and suggested, "Since we're just killing time anyway, why don't we go down and grind it again, or maybe try grinding in a different area?"

"Perfect, let Leopard practice and get familiar with his new skills."

Li Yan: "..."

He looked at Chen Guan's face, which was full of diligence and thrift, and then at the little leopard in his arms, which was licking its paws and looked completely innocent.

He suddenly felt that compared to these two guys, the immortal throne at the top of the tower didn't seem so hard to understand.

In the end, Li Yan did not throw a punch at that self-righteous and handsome face.

My own student, don't be angry, don't be angry...

And so, in the days that followed, this area experienced its darkest day since its construction.

boom.

With a casual slash, Chen Guan cleaved the three crystallized hounds that were fighting together, along with the ground beneath their feet. Then, he skillfully bent down and picked up three crystal cores from the charred crack.

"Teacher, the monsters here don't seem to be completely wiped out."

He looked up and shouted at Li Yan, who was leaning against the wall in the distance, resting with his eyes closed.

Li Yan didn't even lift his eyelids.

He had given up thinking; he even felt that he had come all this way for nothing, and who could possibly do anything to this brat?

Out of sight out of mind.

Let him go.

"Squeak squeak".

In the sky, a dozen or so palm-sized bats, made entirely of black crystal, all locked onto the coffin below.

Crystal Energy Bats, seventh-tier creatures, excel in both numbers and speed.

"Oh? There are still some who slipped through the net."

Chen Guan stopped in his tracks, just about to raise his hand to finish the job.

One of the bats suddenly accelerated, transforming into a black lightning bolt. It cunningly bypassed the front of Chen's coffin and, from an extremely tricky blind spot, lunged at the back of his neck.

This series of actions was so fast that even Li Yan behind him glanced at him and was about to speak up to remind him.