For Wang Lu's rebuttal, Aya was suddenly speechless. Liu Li's table manners were not ugly. Obviously, when she was a child, she was carefully corrected by her Master. Every movement seemed quiet and elegant — as long as the speed was slowed down by a hundred times.
Moreover, although Liu Li had a good appreciation for food, she was actually not picky. Except for the extremely difficult to swallow (Aya automatically excluded the dishes that she cooked), no matter what, she would eat it with relish. Her eating speed had always been jaw-dropping. Although the two problems pointed out by Wang Lu were slightly far-fetched, they were indeed doubtful points.
"Liu Li, what happened at that time?"
Liu Li was very calm. Although the kind-hearted magician told her not to mention it to her Senior Brother, since her Senior Brother asked, she, of course, would not hide it. Therefore, each of them played two roles, retelling the dialogue at that time word for word. Even the tone of the magician was imitated vividly.
After listening to this conversation, anyone could tell that there was a problem.
"... Is this a psychological attack?"
Wang Lu sneered. "Obviously, if you want to target me, the best way is to target Liu Li. And if you want to target Liu Li, general psychological attack will not be effective."
Although Liu Li was natural, she was not an idiot. Moreover, after many years of training by her Master Zhou Ming, as well as long-term training by Wang Lu, she had a very strong resistance to general psychological attack. It was almost impossible to trigger her negative emotions, to make her feel guilty, to make her waver, to make her confused. She didn't have those negative emotions at all.
"But what if it's from the front? Using sacrifice, dedication, and winning the love of others to induce her thinking, after all, she is not invulnerable. Brilliant Sword Heart. Once something happens to Liuli, it will be a fatal blow to me. "
"Fatal blow?" Aya looked at Wang Lu with a bit of surprise. Does he mean to say that he has already...
Wang Lu said, "For me, I can accept anyone else in the team if something happens to them, except for Liu Li … She must not have an accident. If something happens to the others, the most I can do is take responsibility as the leader. At worst, I can just say that I made a mistake in using people. Because none of you are children, you all have the ability to stand on your own and know how to take care of yourselves. However, Liu Li was different. In this strange continent, there was no way for her to survive alone. This was different from the experiential learning of the Lingjian School disciples. According to Uncle Zhou Ming's original intention, he was opposed to Liu Li coming to the Western Continent before the completion of the King Pill. It was my strong advocacy that persuaded Uncle Zhou Ming to agree. During this period, Liu Li was entrusted by her Uncle to trust me unreservedly. She would not violate anything, nor would she overstep anything, fearing that something would go wrong. Therefore, by the same logic, I have to bear the responsibility of taking care of her safety. "
After listening to Wang Lu's explanation, Aya was quite touched. Responsibility was one of the many virtues that Aya valued the most. More than one hundred years ago, when her country was torn apart and she herself suffered heavy losses, it was her sense of responsibility for Brettonia that drove her to continue to walk on as a spirit of the brave departed until today. And the people that she most appreciated were precisely those who had a strong sense of responsibility.
After Wang Lu finished his explanation, he said to Liu Li, "Liu Li, forget that person's words, don't remember a single word."
Liu Li gawked for a moment, but she still didn't ask anything and just nodded. "I understand, I will forget it!"
"Mm, good girl." Wang Lu touched the girl's head. "Now that you've rested enough, let's continue our journey."
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Before long, the group of people came to the end of the stairs.
The situation was very similar to the previous three levels. Behind the stairs was a small square, and a gray stone gate blocked the way. However, unlike the previous levels, the surface of the stone gate and the rock walls on both sides were engraved with a large number of murals. When Wang Lu and the others approached, a wave-like ripple appeared on the stone door, which then formed a vague human face and said in a very stiff and rigid voice.
"Welcome to the brave challengers. This time, you are not facing the guardian of the Golden King, but a challenger like you. They have the same powerful strength as you, and the same cunning wisdom. It's very difficult, but if you want to be the champion of the Golden King, you must prove that your strength is stronger than your competitors. "
Wang Lu asked, "How do you prove it?"
"Go to the top of Beautiful Unique Pool Peak and pick up the Sun God Stone, then you can prove your qualification."
"Beautiful Unique Pool Peak? Sun God Stone? "Listening to these two completely unfamiliar terms, Wang Lu couldn't help but feel strange. He then looked back at Aya. As a scholar of the Western Continent, if there was something strange in this land, it would not be wrong to ask her.
Aya recalled for a moment. "The era of the Golden King has passed for too long. During this period, there have been many changes in the continent. There are many changes in the terrain, and there are also many places with completely different names. The name Beautiful Unique Pool Peak, I have an impression of four or five places. However, if I'm not mistaken, the most famous one is located in the Savage Land that is even more distant than the Ice Thorns Plateau. There are countless miracles and mysteries there. However, even I know very little about the specific story. "
The stone gate said with a sinking voice, "If you want to know about Beautiful Unique Pool Peak and the Sun God Stone, then carefully look at the murals here, which record everything."
With that, the stone gate burst out a ray of light, which lit up all the murals on both sides of the rock wall and the surface of the stone gate. Thousands of murals, as if they were alive, rotated to form a moving image in front of Wang Lu. At the same time, the stone gate issued a dull sound as a narration.
"Tsk, is this the original version of a documentary?"
The murals told a story that happened tens of thousands of years ago. At that time, the Golden King had not yet completely ruled the continent, and the Golden Kingdom was surrounded by countless enemies. Golden King raised his army and went on an expedition in all directions. His army was invincible, but it also experienced a lot of bitter battles.
One of the battles could be described as the one that determined the fate of the Golden King. After winning thirteen battles in a row, he was about to lead his exhausted army back to the capital. However, in the rear of the Golden Kingdom, his former ally suddenly turned against him. Taking advantage of the fact that Golden King was on an expedition, he launched a surprise attack. Thousands of troops and horses went straight to the capital, which put the Golden Kingdom in a precarious situation.
At the time of crisis, Golden King resolutely made a decision. He abandoned his army and single-handedly returned to the capital — as one of the strongest people on the continent at that time, it was much faster to act alone than to lead an army, although it was also much more dangerous.
At that time, many people thought that Golden King was crazy and actually courted his own death, but later it turned out that it was his bravest and wisest decision. He acted alone and rushed back to the capital one step ahead of the enemy. Relying on his years of prestige, he quickly formed an army and launched a desperate fight against the enemy. In the attack and defense of the capital, he personally went out and killed the enemy's leader, which established the victory. Then, his army marched straight in, wiped out the ally who betrayed him, and burned his country in a raging flame. However, Golden King was not satisfied, because the man who personally ordered the attack on his country did not die, but led his personal guards to flee to the wilderness.
The Wasteland was a dead end, but he would rather die than fall into the hands of Golden King. However, Golden King was not willing to let him go. He would rather take the same risk to go deep into the Wasteland and catch his enemy. It was a pursuit war with death. The two sides scrambled to go deep into the land of death. The deeper they went into the wilderness, the more dangerous the environment was, because it was an absolutely unknown place that no one had ever explored before.
The enemy of Golden King was one of the most skilled escapees in the continent. No one knew how long Golden King chased him before he finally caught him and punished him with the cruelest means.
The murals used hundreds of pages to describe the cruel means of Golden King in detail. Obviously, it was also the proudest work of Golden King in his life. Previously, when Golden King turned the tide and led his army to defeat the enemy, he only used two or three paintings to describe it. But the story did not end there, because when the enemy was tortured and on the verge of death, he made a bold move.
The gray guardian of the stone gate tried to imitate the tone of the enemy with a dull and rigid voice.
"Gil, do you think you have conquered everything? Do you think your power can cover the whole continent? Open your eyes and see! Look around us, look at the endless distance, look at the mountain that runs through the sky! Before that, we never even knew that there was such a vast space in the continent! This is a strange and mysterious land, and you, as a small, lowly mortal, can never conquer it all! This continent is far more vast than you think, and you are far from being as supreme as you think you are! "
For the enemy's provocation, Golden King gave the highest-profile response.
"Ridiculous bastard, how dare you question my authority? This land, no matter how vast it is, is just my back garden. If there is any strange corner in my back garden, I will conquer it. "
"Gil, you are always so brilliant, always so confident, as if everything in the world is under your control. Unfortunately, this is just an illusion. You are just a mortal. Compared with this world, your lifespan, everything about you is insignificant. You can't conquer everything … Gil, how about this, if you can really conquer that mountain, I will tell you the reason why I betrayed you."
"I don't care about the bastard's excuse."
With that, Golden King crushed his head and then turned his eyes to the mountain hidden in the clouds.
"But, nothing in this world can be separated from my rule … The mountain hidden in the sea of clouds, you will become my possession."
At the end of the story, it described how Golden King went through untold hardships to cross the sea of clouds and climb to the peak. Golden King finally picked a magical gem at the top of the mountain. The power of the gem made him immortal and completely established his thousand-year achievement. And that mountain was regarded by Golden King as a symbol of his omnipotence, named after the word Beautiful Unique Pool Peak, which symbolized the supreme in the ancient language.
"Challengers, follow in the footsteps of the king, climb the Beautiful Unique Pool Peak, and pick the Sun God Stone. Of course, all of this must be done before your challengers. "
With that, the image of the mural disappeared completely, and the stone gate became silent.
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