Chapter 216 - 212: Five Swords
On the peak of Li Mountain, Lu Yuan stepped forward to fight, but Chu Zili chose to avoid the battle.
Later, Jiang Taie entered the fray, and Lu Yuan was defeated.
Back then, both Lu Yuan and Jiang Taie were at the same cultivation stage. Losing to Jiang Taie, an Innate Sword Body cultivator of Lingxiao Pavilion, was inevitable. *But that defeat deeply impacted Lu Yuan’s state of mind, and for a long time, she couldn’t recover from it.*
Before Li Fan, Lu Yuan was the most outstanding disciple of Li Mountain Sword Mountain. She was the hope of her master, and all the Li Mountain disciples held the highest expectations for her.
At the Lingxiao Pavilion’s Sword Inquiry, she was supposed to step forward and prove the might of the Li Mountain Sword by defeating Jiang Taie.
But she lost.
Fortunately, Li Fan was there. He defeated Jiang Taie and preserved the honor of the Li Mountain Sword.
It was because of this that Li Fan held a special place in Lu Yuan’s heart, *a mix of admiration, a hint of jealousy, and heartfelt gratitude. She was thankful to Li Fan for saving her; without him, she would have been a sinner of Li Mountain.*
*She was also grateful to the misunderstood youth who upheld the honor of Li Mountain at a crucial moment.*
*Because of these intertwined feelings, even though she wasn’t familiar with Li Fan, when she met him in Yun Meng City, she felt an inexplicable sense of closeness. It wasn’t long before they grew acquainted—something she had never experienced with others before.*
That youth represented the Li Mountain Sword.