Feng Jun was truly speechless at the Big Shot's timidity. He had seen cowardly people before, but never one this cowardly.
Feng Jun considered himself quite good at lying low, yet the Big Shot had developed even more stealthily than he had.
But on second thought, when he had first met it, he had only been at Early Emergence from Dust, and it had still played dead.
So he shook his head. "No, he's still here. He asked me to divine the cause of the Spirit Grain's death, but I'm not entirely sure..."
The Big Shot was visibly stunned for a moment before asking, "The cause of the Spirit Grain's death... what happened?"
Feng Jun took out that stalk of Spirit Grain. "It died like this..."
"Hey, why did you..." The Big Shot was clearly displeased. "Why did you take it out like that?"
"I can't take it out?" Feng Jun raised a brow. "There's a restriction on it. Are you worried he tampered with the restriction?"
"Isn't that obvious?" the Big Shot said unhappily. "All he needs to do is add a faint detection effect, and I might be discovered!"
"It's fine. I know better than you do," Feng Jun replied dismissively. "He's only a small-time fourth-layer Nascent Soul, and I checked it already. There's no tampering on it. Senior, you really are timid."
"Bullshit. The older you get, the more timid you become," the Big Shot snapped. "Is a fourth-layer Nascent Soul weak? If you were a fourth-layer Nascent Soul, I would've... Forget it, I can't be bothered talking to you. This plant's vitality is rather strange."
"It isn't vitality. It's death energy. Without a restriction, it'll turn to ash in a day or two..." Feng Jun explained what he knew. "I think it might be some kind