"No need."
"Is there really no need?"
Inside the stone chamber, one man sat cross-legged on the bed while the other stood before it with his hands behind his back.
Cough, cough...
Facing Wang Yuan's wistful gaze, Luo Chen could not stop himself from coughing twice.
He said softly, "You once told me: a true man can bend and stretch without losing his heroic spirit. But when faced with a real choice, one must hold fast to one's heart. Otherwise, once one's will is broken, that bent back will never straighten again for the rest of one's life."
"I know that yesterday's battle was not a choice I absolutely had to make."
"But I fear that when the true choice comes, I will habitually calculate and weigh the pros and cons, only to miss the opportunity and lose my original heart."
Hearing those low, heavy words, Wang Yuan was startled.
It seemed Luo Chen was hinting at something?
During the time he had been away, what exactly had Luo Chen experienced?
Luo Chen did not let him dwell on it. He merely forced out a smile.
"Besides, someone had to receive that strike from the Talisman Treasure."
"I could have taken it." Wang Yuan said decisively.
"Then would you have been injured? I'm afraid you would not merely have been injured—you would also have needlessly exposed your Blood Path methods and drawn the attention of Foundation Establishment cultivators!"
Wang Yuan hesitated.
Luo Chen chuckled and shook his head. "There, you see? You would be injured if you took it, and I would be injured if I took it. There's no difference!"
"Besides, I wasn't acting on a burst of reckless hot blood."
Indeed!
Both Luo Chen and Wang Yuan had known perfectly well that the Fu Family possessed a Talisman