"Are we competitors?"
Wang Wu asked another question. He truly did not know much about Madam Yu's game.
"Why do you ask?" the commoner Earth Immortal countered.
"Because my concubine was the one playing this game. She had been busy lately, so I got bored and fiddled with it a little. Somehow, it seemed I caused some trouble."
Wang Wu told the truth, without the slightest embellishment, to the point that it sounded like a lie.
The commoner Earth Immortal fell silent again.
"Fellow Daoist, there's no need to be nervous. I truly bear you no ill will. I just want to ask: before I entered this trial mystic realm, were you the one who spent thirty million Spirit Energy Dou to forcibly bet on my defeat? I just want to know—what grudge, what grievance drove you to this? Isn't this game supposed to be something to pass the time when you're bored?"
As Wang Wu spoke, he used Level 18 Spiritual Essence Insight to observe the commoner Earth Immortal's every move. This man still seemed unconvinced and wanted to activate an even more precious immortal talisman.
"Brother, I suggest you don't do that—"
Before Wang Wu finished speaking, the commoner Earth Immortal had already activated the talisman. Or, more accurately, a damaged Golden Tome of Creation.
And he used it on—Wang Wu.
It designated Wang Wu's Level 18 Spiritual Essence Insight talent and forcibly lowered it by one level for twelve shichen.
Oh my, truly a small-town test-taking genius with a powerful heart. Truly a commoner Earth Immortal of the Cultivation World. His will was so unyielding, his fighting spirit so fierce, his killing intent so decisive, his actions so resolute—he had never, would never, and did not even dare hope that any good fortune might fall upon his