When Kong Ruobing saw that the ice crystals containing her Cold Ice Talismans had all shattered and her technique had been completely forced aside, she immediately grew anxious and cried, "You cheated!"
"How did I cheat? I kept my cultivation suppressed to the same level as yours the entire time, and I didn't use any magical treasures. How can you call that cheating?"
Ji Buyi said with a smile.
Kong Ruobing snorted. "But you used those Icicle Pillars hanging in your cave residence. If that isn't cheating, what is?"
Ji Buyi said solemnly, "Using the surrounding environment is a battle instinct, not cheating. On the contrary, if you could use them to knock me down, then that would mean you had seized the environmental advantage. I would have to admit defeat."
"Scoundrel! Cheat!"
Kong Ruobing couldn't be bothered to listen to his lofty reasoning. All she knew was that if Ji Buyi hadn't laughed loudly and shaken down those Icicle Pillars, she would already have forced him back.
Ji Buyi shook his head with a wry smile and let Kong Ruobing scold him. He didn't blame her. He was indeed in the wrong.
Because logically speaking, with his strength, he shouldn't have needed to rely on the environment to respond.
Borrowing external objects meant his skill was inferior.
So, strictly speaking, he had already lost.
But it was enough to know that in his heart. Saying it out loud would be humiliating, and as the dignified number-one genius of the Ice Spirit Sect, he could not afford to lose that face.
"Ahem."
Ji Buyi coughed twice and changed the subject. "Junior Sister, what's going on with the Talisman Runes in your ice crystals? Where did you learn them?"
"Why should I tell you? You're a cheat."
Kong Ruobing snorted.
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