Li Kuanglan’s expression was cold. “Why can’t it be me?”

Qianye struggled to sit up, but a thin beam of frosty sword energy shot out from Li Kuanglan’s fingertips, tapping his forehead in a flash. The beam was simply too fast, and before Qianye could even react, his body was lying back on the bed.

That wisp of sword energy receded as quickly as it had arrived, a clear display of Li Kuanglan’s precise control.

Qianye couldn’t sense any injury whatsoever after being forced back down. It was only her means of pushing him down.

“Just lie there. You’ve overdrafted your power, wait until you’ve recovered unless you want to damage your foundations.” With that, Li Kuanglan stood up and said, “I’ll go find something for you to eat.”

“... Thanks.”

Qianye thought back to the battle amidst the silence following Li Kuanglan’s departure. With Heartgrave and a boost from the Wings of Inception, his Shot of Inception had erupted with earth-shattering force!

Even though the Wolf King still had a bit of Ancestral Power left, he had no choice but to escape immediately.

What he wanted, however, was to finish everything in one stroke. He was...