Chapter 994: Does This Even Mean Anything?
Sometimes that was just how things went. If Wang Yue had made his claims too confidently, Si Teng might have grown suspicious. But he had clearly left himself some wiggle room, so she felt he probably wasn't lying to her.
Ever since she had left the depths of the forest, she had felt that the spiritual energy in the outside world was extremely scarce, countless times thinner than it had been back then. Only after arriving at Nuwa Temple did she feel that the spiritual energy here seemed even richer than it had been in the past.
She figured that Wang Yue was so powerful because he had cultivated here. Now that she could finally keep herself steady, she wanted to cultivate here for a while too.
What Si Teng didn't know was that although cultivation here was indeed quick, Wang Yue had advanced so rapidly because the cultivation arts he had developed from the Beiming Divine Skill were incredibly overbearing. They had absorbed most of the energy from Si Teng's transformation all at once, causing the qi within him to surge.
Of course, Si Teng knew none of this. She thought that with Wang Yue's formation, she might recover quickly, so she nodded and said, "I can stay here for a while. It's just that even if I absorb the spiritual energy, I can't pass it on to you."
She said that because whatever she absorbed went directly into her body, rather than spreading through the air the way it had when she took human form.
Xu Hongdou thought Si Teng didn't seem to be lying, but she also believed Wang Yue wouldn't deceive her. She looked at him, puzzled, and asked, "A Yue, what do you think?"
Seeing both of them