(I'm back! Haha! Had a pretty good time!)
"Hahaha! Well? Do you admit defeat?" Li Xiaoya burst out laughing at the sight. It had been a long time since he had gotten to cut such an imposing figure.
"Hmph! Relying on a Dharma Artifact doesn't count as skill!" Zhang Zhi turned his head away, refusing to concede.
"Oh? Weren't you the one who used a Dharma Artifact first?" Li Xiaoya asked in a mocking singsong.
"..." Zhang Zhi choked on his words. Indeed, if it came down to who had used a Dharma Artifact first, he had been the first to bring out his Azure Small Shield. His face alternated between red and white as he stared at the Azure Small Shield lying in two pieces on the ground, unable to speak.
"Hey! Senior Brother Li! Just let Zhang Zhi go!" Seeing this, Ye Ying hurried over from a distance, calling out as she ran.
Although Li Xiaoya and Zhang Zhi's fight took some telling, it had actually lasted only a few breaths. She had never expected Zhang Zhi, who had placed two spots above her in the Kunqi Sect's selection competition, to be defeated by Li Xiaoya just like that. But the whole affair had started because of her. If anything really happened to Zhang Zhi, she would not be able to escape responsibility either, so she had hurried over to persuade him.
"No! What you used wasn't a Dharma Artifact-it was a Spiritual Artifact!" Looking at his Azure Small Shield, cleaved in two, Zhang Zhi suddenly cried out. His Azure Small Shield had been a high-grade defensive Dharma Artifact. Though it did not have the strongest defenses among all his treasures, it had always been one of the Dharma Artifacts he relied on for protection. Only a Spiritual