Seeing that Feng Jun was still brooding over it, Yi Jue could only speak gently. "I helped you communicate on this point too. The Artifact Refining Path has shown considerable sincerity. True Venerable Half-Fool even lost his temper over it."
"True Venerable Half-Fool... does have the bearing of a senior," Feng Jun said, finally returning to a normal state of communication. He truly had a good impression of Half-Fool, but that bastard last time had acted under Half-Fool's banner, which was why Feng Jun had remained so bothered by it.
Now that he heard Half-Fool had become angry as well, he felt that this was how a senior expert ought to act. Still, he could not quite let it go. "Sincerity and all that don't matter. The key is that my reputation has been dragged through the mud like this... If I don't strike back fiercely, won't people think I'm easy to bully?"
Senior Qian Zhong truly was a Spirit Severing Great Lord. Her eye was indeed sharp! Yi Jue could not help sighing inwardly, but she spoke again. "I agree with that. You should strike back fiercely, but... how should you strike back?"
It was not that she opposed Feng Jun. This truly lay beyond the scope of what she was familiar with—yet she very much wanted to help him retaliate.
"Try to eliminate the impact," Feng Jun said, not making things difficult for her—how could he bear to? But if he himself proposed the means of retaliation, that would be a little too low-class. "Let's see how sincere they are."
"I discussed some terms," Yi Jue said. Her personality was such that she said whatever was on her mind. "That Nascent Soul artifact refiner will be at your disposal for two hundred years. What do you think?"
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