Bamboo Gentleman was famous for one thing: whenever it got angry, it liked to steal other people's treasure vaults as revenge.
When such an existence entered the sect's sacred grounds, not only were the junior disciples of the Spirit Plant Path worried, even the elders had to remain on guard.
However, considering that Yi Jue had invited it, the chances of anything going wrong were slim.
Bamboo Gentleman's methods were ruthless only toward those who offended it. Under normal circumstances, it still cared about maintaining the dignity of a mighty expert.
What worried the two elders most was Bamboo Gentleman itself... it was an unusual bamboo that had attained the Dao, originally belonging to the Spirit Plant lineage.
The Spirit Plant Path, meanwhile, mainly cultivated spirit plants and made full use of every part of them.
That sort of practice... was very likely to displease Bamboo Gentleman, since they were all beings of the same broad category.
And Feng Jun's wandering around and looking everywhere only made him seem more suspicious.
The two elders knew Bamboo Gentleman's temperament and did not dare speak too plainly. They could only ask vaguely.
Yi Jue could not very well call it by name either. After thinking for a moment, she said, "That senior... probably would not be as you imagine."
"Probably not," the elders could only say with bitter smiles. "But... could we trouble Great Venerable to confirm it?"
"No problem," Yi Jue answered crisply, vanishing in a flash.
She arrived beside Feng Jun and asked, "Senior, does our cultivation of spirit plants count as an offense?"
"An offense against what?" the Big Shot asked strangely, then stated bluntly.
"If I truly held it against you, I would have treated you rudely long ago. Yet in fact, you have taken quite a few