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Qu Jianlei was taken aback by Old Lady Jia's question. "You know about spiritual energy too?"

But he quickly understood.

Whether Awakened Ones or Cultivators, once they reached a certain level, the information they possessed and their ways of thinking would not differ much.

What Paranoid knew, it was perfectly normal for the old lady to know as well. So he smiled at her without answering.

Old Lady Jia pondered for a moment, then slowly shook her head. "Even if it is spiritual energy, it may not work. There are differences, after all."

"Heh heh." Paranoid gave a dry laugh upon hearing that, yet said nothing more.

He wanted to tell her that it was not a matter of incompatibility. He had tried it before, and his current physical recovery had benefited from it.

However, he had already said some things he should not have. If he continued and somehow angered Hongjingtian, that would be troublesome.

Old Lady Jia did not dwell on it either—the two had merely been discussing a hypothesis, a theoretical exchange.

Time could not turn back, and they could never return to the past. Discussing it further would only upset them.

After chatting for a while longer, the two started arguing again. Paranoid shook his head and said mildly, "With your way of thinking, even if there had been spiritual energy back then, you still wouldn't have made it."

Old Lady Jia refused to accept that. She looked at Qu Jianlei. "You tell me... was there anything wrong with what I said?"

I really don't understand what either of you is talking about! Qu Jianlei sighed inwardly.

But he had been listening the whole time, so it would not do to admit that he did not understand. Wouldn't that only deepen suspicions that he was a