Fuzi's expression darkened. She really did have some ideas, actually planning to use Human World Power to suppress her cultivation.
But then he thought of the timing she had mentioned. He had sensed it too.
"Hmph, I knew nothing good would come of you visiting the Academy!
"Several hundred years ago, you taught here for a few days and read the Old Book Tower clean."
Red Dust laughed. "You old fossil, you're far too stingy. What do you mean, a few days? That was a full hundred years!
"Over that century, I trained quite a few outstanding talents."
Fuzi snapped, "You got your benefits and still want to play innocent. Where did all those talents go?
"In the end, all you did was use the Academy's resources to train a great many people for the Imperial Family."
"Oh, get on with it. If it bothers you that much, help yourself to anything at my headquarters.
"Cultivation methods, divine abilities—take whichever you fancy!"
"Haha, does that count as betrayal?"
"They're my own things. How is that betrayal? At most, I'm giving them away!"
"You're the only person I'd believe if they said they could give those things away so casually!
"This is a Yuan Qi bead I condensed using Human World Power!"
As he spoke, a bead floated toward Red Dust.
Red Dust took it and, seemingly without inspecting it at all, refined it directly, thickening the barrier between her cultivation realms.
"Won't you even inspect it? Aren't you afraid I might harm you?"
Red Dust had, of course, inspected it, but she still said, "We've known each other for years. How could I not trust you, you old fossil?
"Even setting that aside, we're on the same side now. Murdering me at this point would be no different from committing