Hearing Han Li's words, True Venerable Qingkong nearly coughed up blood in anger. "Is this what I'm like in your minds?"
True Venerable Han Li couldn't even be bothered to answer: acting as a protector during someone's breakthrough was no small favor. It created karma. Were you still half-asleep?
The Grand Protector grew even more helpless. "I'm not asking for a favor in return, but no matter how you put it, I offered reasonable advice. And now I'm supposed to owe a favor instead?"
Helping Little Qu as his protector and others raising their guard against him were two utterly opposite kinds of favor!
He had no intention of taking advantage anymore, but he did not want to suffer a loss either—even if he had not sworn an oath, he had still entered the grand formation!
"No one's making you owe a favor," Jin Ge said, still willing to speak up for what was fair. The other party was, after all, one of the sect's higher-ups.
"Grand Protector, don't be so petty. Ridge Lord Qu isn't an unreasonable man either. But the Extreme Spirit Vein... is there something wrong with it?"
"You've experienced too few Out-of-Body breakthroughs!" The Grand Protector shook his head helplessly.
"I didn't divine him... and I'm a little afraid to, too. But I can be certain of one thing: he hasn't even reached the halfway point of his breakthrough, and his spiritual energy needs will double!"
When it came to this kind of judgment, he feared no one. Even in Lingyun, his judgment was the most authoritative, bar none!
This was a skill he had honed out of boredom while serving as protector, and it had been tested through real examples!
According to his judgment, although Little Qu's final breakthrough had already lasted more than half