Li Wan-ning moved back to the hotel to live with Lu Ming again, just like before.
In the days that followed, the two of them entered and exited the hotel together, ate together, fought monsters together, and farmed Medicine King Valley together. Even the hotel receptionist saw them as a couple deeply in love.
But in reality, Lu Ming never crossed the line. He always maintained a certain distance from Li Wan-ning. To Lu Ming, he had already taken advantage of Li Wan-ning's feelings, using her love for him to charge the Scroll of Deification. He would never harm this girl, who was willing to sacrifice herself for her family and dared to stand against the God Syer for the sake of her country, in a physical way.
However, what Lu Ming didn't know was that Li Wan-ning was fully aware of his intentions to get close to her—he wanted to resurrect Qin Churan.
"But even so, I will continue to love you unreservedly!"
"I won't give up until you make your final decision!"
At night, in a hot pot restaurant.
Lu Ming served some meatballs to Li Wan-ning and noticed her staring at him. He couldn't help but ask, "What's up? Why are you looking at me like that?"
Li Wan-ning smiled and said, "Nether brother, I find you more and more charismatic!"
Lu Ming teased, "What, are you deeply attracted to me and can't help yourself?"
Suddenly, Li Wan-ning looked at Lu Ming seriously and asked, "Will you leave me one day?"
Lu Ming was taken aback.
Before he could answer, Li Wan-ning ughed and said, "Let's eat, we still have to farm Medicine King Valley ter!"
"When our Li family's strength and status rise another level through the Medicine Hall, I will fight against the God Syer to the end and never let them destroy our Great Xia!"
Determination shone in Li Wan-ning's eyes.
After a pause, she added to Lu Ming, "Nether brother, eat more. You've lost weight helping me farm Medicine King Valley these days, thank you!"
As she spoke, Li Wan-ning kept serving food to Lu Ming.
Lu Ming shifted his thoughts back to the current situation.
"Currently, the progress of clearing the tenth yer of Medicine King Valley has reached 70%. If nothing goes wrong, we should be able to clear it after a few more hours tonight."
"And my level is already at 49, 65%. I will definitely reach level 50 tonight!"
"Success or failure, it all depends on tonight!"
Lu Ming's only concern now was Li Wan-ning.
Despite using the Scroll of Deification to absorb the power of true love from Li Wan-ning during this time, it was always just a little short, and the Scroll of Deification couldn't reach the state needed to activate!
"What exactly is missing to completely break through this bottleneck?"
He only had three days left.
If he couldn't solve this problem within three days, he would never be able to resurrect Qin Churan!
Lu Ming looked at Li Wan-ning, troubled.
Does he really have to take that final step to succeed?
"Forget it, let's level up to 50 first and deal with that ghost general!"
After finishing the hot pot, Lu Ming and Li Wan-ning returned to the hotel and logged in.
They headed straight to the Medicine Hall.
The tenth yer of Medicine King Valley.
The monsters residing here, the [Millennium Tree Demons], were also level 50, but their attribute strength had reached ten times that of ordinary monsters of the same level!
Each Millennium Tree Demon was equivalent to a first-tier ghost beast!
Such overwhelming strength was enough to crush any pyer at the second yer with a maximum level of 50!
Fortunately, the Undead Legion could still handle them, albeit with slightly reduced efficiency. However, they would definitely be able to kill the remaining 30,000 Millennium Tree Demons tonight!
While Lu Ming felt the speed wasn't fast enough.
In Li Wan-ning's eyes, Lu Ming had already become a legend.
This news even reached the upper echelons of the Li family!
Shanghai.
Li family, Glorious Building.
Chairman Li Weiguo was holding a meeting with the company's shareholders.
The core topic of this meeting was Lu Ming!
Everyone present was filled with enthusiasm.
"Our Glorious Squad took five whole years just to clear the first to fifth yers of Medicine King Valley, yet the young Trickster beside Miss Li Wan-ning cleared up to the tenth yer in just four days!"
"Who would have thought a young Trickster could possess such formidable strength? Truly remarkable!"
"Thanks to Miss Li Wan-ning's keen eye, she managed to find such an exceptional expert!"
At this point, the shareholders began to tease Li Weiguo:
"Chairman Li, don't let this opportunity slip away. Make sure your daughter, Miss Li Wan-ning, seizes this chance!"
"Indeed! If we can recruit such a powerful Trickster to our Glorious Squad, our international standing would surely rise rapidly!"
Li Weiguo nodded with a knowing smile, "Wan-ning never tells me anything. It seems I need to visit Anyang and meet my future son-in-w!"
Meanwhile, in Medicine King Valley.
With Lu Ming tirelessly farming day and night.
Before reaching level 50, he finally had a moment of glory!
Swish!
As Lu Ming drew his sword, he instantly killed a Millennium Tree Demon with over 2.8 million explosive damage.
A pleasant system notification rang in his ears.
[Ding~ Congratutions, your skill Sword Draw has been upgraded to B-level!]
Lu Ming eagerly opened his skill list for a look.
[Sword Draw] (Unique Skill, Lv49)
[Grade: B-level] (Upgradeable)
[Skill Effect: When drawing the sword, release a sword shadow that deals (400% attack power + 698) true damage, ignoring defense, to a single enemy within attack range. If this Sword Draw kills the enemy, it will deal equivalent spsh damage to another enemy within attack range; increases self attack power and skill strength by 40% for 10 seconds.]
[Cooldown: 60 seconds]
[Skill Cost: 698]
[Proficiency: 0/100,000] (Each use of Sword Draw grants 1 proficiency point, with an additional point if it kills an enemy. Max proficiency upgrades to A-level.)
"Spsh attack?" Lu Ming murmured as he looked at the new effect unlocked by the B-level Sword Draw, "Interesting!"
"I wonder if the number of spsh attack targets can trigger the Comprehensive Amplification enhancement?"
With this in mind, Lu Ming moved to a densely packed area of tree demons to test the B-level Sword Draw's skill effect.
As Lu Ming stepped into the core area of the tree demons.
Around him, at least a dozen Millennium Tree Demons within attack range eyed Lu Ming menacingly.
Seeing this, even though Li Wan-ning knew Lu Ming had resurrection abilities, she still worried he might get hurt: "Nether brother, be careful!"
Just as she spoke.
In the instant those dozen tree demons attacked Lu Ming simultaneously.
Lu Ming locked onto one of the tree demons.
Swish!
Sword Draw—
-7,065,660!
With explosive damage nearing eight digits, he instantly killed the tree demon.
Triggering the spsh attack effect.
Swish, swish, swish, swish!
The remaining dozen tree demons within Lu Ming's attack range all had a sharp sword shadow fsh through them!
-7,065,660!
-7,065,660!
-7,065,660!
...
In an instant, all fifteen tree demons around were annihited!
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