An expert saw the method behind it. Yi Jue only needed one look at the treatment plan to grasp the other party's general approach.
Shouzhong glanced at her and shook his head slightly. "As expected of our Spirit Plant Path elder. Your insight is remarkable."
Elder Yi Jue caught the implication. "You know the reason, don't you? No, I need to ask the Dao Master!"
"Elder," the barefoot burly man spoke up this time, "you just said that we should focus on completing the mission for now..."
They chatted casually, and time passed quickly. At some unknown point, someone suddenly appeared where Feng Jun had vanished moments ago.
"Hm?" The refined scholar let out a soft cry. "You used the Nascent Soul Defense Talisman already?"
"Don't mention it." Feng Jun shook his head with a wry smile. "It hurt so much to use it."
He truly ached over it. A passively activated Nascent Soul Defense Talisman was practically equivalent to a Nascent Soul True Immortal's Blood Essence Protective Talisman!
Of course, a Nascent Soul True Immortal's Blood Essence Protective Talisman could never be loaned out. Even Golden Core cultivators cared greatly about their "leakless bodies," and Nascent Soul True Immortals even more so. If their blood essence fell into the hands of someone with ill intentions—one only had to consider Feng Yishu's current state.
That was why the defense talisman he had obtained was truly precious. No wonder even Shouzhong had praised it.
Feng Jun was not a miser. He used what needed to be used; nothing was more precious than his own life. But what made him laugh bitterly was that the attacker had used Spatial Lock rather than something like a flying sword strike.
If it had truly been a flying sword strike, then the Nascent Soul Defense