Disdain

Actually,

after suffering that crushing defeat at the Elephant Mountain Sect's mountain gate Ruins that day, Shi Mengting had formed quite a deep impression of the Shen Changchuan who had intercepted her on her way back.

After all, because of him, she had failed to achieve a perfect success.

But as for Shen Changchuan's strength,

Shi Mengting had not actually cared much about it.

Once she calmed herself and reviewed that battle,

she could see one thing clearly.

That Shen Changchuan had never truly been her match!

The reason for her crushing defeat

was merely that, when the Sky Control Bracelet and Three Thousand Illusory Void Steps she had relied upon as invincible were broken, her mind had fallen into chaos. She had failed to calmly assess the situation, allowing him to seize an opportunity with ease.

Especially at the end, while her mind was in turmoil, he had used an attack sealed at the peak of the Spirit Wandering realm while also disrupting the power of her Sky Control Bracelet. That peak Spirit Wandering realm strike had hit her head-on and nearly left her there for good.

But in truth,

if she had been able to calm down at the time,

after discovering that the combination of the Three Thousand Illusory Void Steps and the Sky Control Bracelet had been broken,

she could simply have abandoned the Sky Control Bracelet and Three Thousand Illusory Void Steps

and fought him using her peak Nascent Soul cultivation and other conventional spell techniques.

With him being merely at the Out of Body Stage eighth level, only barely reaching the Out of Body Stage ninth level after using some unknown secret technique, he could never have been her opponent!

That was why

Shi Mengting had not truly regarded Shen Changchuan highly.

Although, before