Qiao Zirong had already noticed what Su Jiu intended. The instant she quietly activated her Formation Disk, he stuck a Tracking Teleportation Talisman onto her.
The talisman sounded impressive, but it actually only supported short-range teleportation.
When Su Jiu saw Qiao Zirong appear beside her, she understood what had happened.
She sighed softly, her voice full of helplessness. "Why did you have to do that?"
A trace of anger showed in Qiao Zirong's eyes. "What about you? What were you doing it for?"
The air suddenly seemed to freeze. In the end, Ji Jue broke the silence first.
"Miss Susu, you're still holding me. Could you put me down first?"
He had not meant to break the silence; he was genuinely on the verge of suffocating. Su Jiu had teleported in while gripping the back of his collar, and he really could not hold on much longer.
Su Jiu set Ji Jue down and said evenly, "I can protect myself. You can't."
Qiao Zirong felt that even when he was angry, this girl would still wear that same calm expression. A profound sense of helplessness washed over him.
"Yun Chao excels only with a sword, not Array Talismans. Yun Huanling is hopeless in a fight. No matter how skillfully he uses Strange Gates and Hidden Armor, how much of it do you think he could bring to bear in such a confined space? Mo Qi and you are in the greatest danger. Neither of you has a sect behind you. How many Spirit Artifacts for protection could you afford with the few spirit stones you earn as rogue cultivators? In a crisis, you might not even measure up to Yun Huanling."
Qiao Zirong flushed slightly. "W-we're not quite as useless as you make us sound."
Su Jiu nodded. "If this