After the prying eyes retreated, the First Princess retracted her gaze and praised Li Luo with a smile. "You've contributed a lot to the success of this fight once again. If not for your timely capture of Jing Taixu, I would have had to struggle against Lan Lan, and who knows how that would have turned out. An unpleasant outcome would be more likely than not." 

Li Luo shrugged. "Dear Princess, you must be exaggerating! We could have simply ran with our tails tucked between our legs in the worst case! If you had gotten crippled here, our odds of victory would be nonexistent." 

Frankly speaking, the First Princess had planned to resist the Three Kowtows of the Enlightened Sage headfirst from the start. Of course, doing that was no child's play, and any mistake on their part would have led to elimin...