"Huh, it broke already?"
Chu Mo frowned and clicked his tongue. "A fake, just as I thought."
There was not the slightest surprise in his tone.
He had wondered since when Zhi Su had become so generous. No, rather, since when had he ever given anyone something genuine?
Forget giving them to others-Zhi Su probably did not have more than a handful of genuine articles himself.
"Heh, Senior Brother Zhi Su is actually rather decent. It waited until I finished using it to break, instead of suddenly breaking while I was using it."
Chu Mo chuckled. The other counterfeits in Harmony Truth never cared whether anyone lived or died. By comparison, Zhi Su seemed extraordinarily decent.
He tucked the damaged Plain Heaven Diagram into his sleeve, already making his calculations. Since it was broken anyway, this was the perfect chance to return it to Senior Brother Zhi Su.
Once he went back, he would find a way to coax another treasure out of him. Ideally, he could swindle him out of something even greater.
Something like the [Ten Thousand Methods Mirror]. He had used it once when he was still a Nascent Soul True Lord. This Dharmic Treasure could independently extrapolate all manner of cultivation methods and divine abilities. It was quite formidable.
Though Zhi Su possessed plenty of counterfeits, even his counterfeits were useful. The only concern was that Zhi Su would secretly learn the borrower's divine abilities, but that was precisely what worried Chu Mo least.
... Several days later, in the Brightlight Blessed Land.
"Junior Brother Sect Master."
Zhi Su pushed open the hall doors and looked at Chu Mo in the seat of honor, speaking with a cheerful smile. "You look well lately, Junior Brother. Has something good happened?"
Chu Mo lifted his eyelids. A thousand