Feng Jun's words cut straight to the heart: if no one came from Heavenly Zither, what did she take him for?
Earth Spirit was truly panicking and had no idea how to answer.
But Feng Jun was not finished. "This is my Core Embrace celebration, understand? A Core Embrace celebration. It's important, okay?"
"It is important," Earth Spirit replied. Not knowing how to continue, it simply went along with him.
"I thought the Six Harmonies Earth Vein could be ready before the celebration." Feng Jun looked at it coldly. "There's less than a month left. I'm very disappointed with how slowly you've been drawing it over."
"I really didn't know the schedule was this tight!" Earth Spirit wailed. A month would have been more than enough. Earlier, to spite Yun Buyao, it had deliberately dragged its feet, intending to complain about her behind her back. It had never expected this outcome. "I'll strive to finish it in twenty days."
"Not knowing it was urgent means you could slack off?" Feng Jun frowned and spoke calmly. "Since this is your first offense, I'll only take one hundred thousand units of spiritual energy. Do you have any objections?"
"No!" Earth Spirit screamed. It had truly experienced the consequences of having its spiritual energy extracted. Though it was only one percent of its spiritual energy, it had been born a Golden Core and possessed an exceptionally keen perception of its own spiritual energy.
Was losing ten thousand units of spiritual energy serious? Not really. But after carefully sensing itself, it had still discovered something wrong. Its body truly felt mildly unwell, and that discomfort had lasted many days.
Though the discomfort was minor, Earth Spirit still cared greatly, because it knew that the next time would start at one hundred thousand units.
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