Afterward, an eerie silence settled over them.
Lu Chuchu's expression did not change. She still looked on the verge of tears, but she secretly tightened her grip on her sleeve. She had realized these people were different from those of the Lu Household. Whenever the latter saw her suffer a grievance before Lu Shuangshuang, they would take the initiative to help her. These people, however, were mostly just watching the show. Only two or three had spoken up for her so far, nearly leaving her unable to keep up her act.
Yet she failed to consider how many people in the cultivation world who had reached foundation establishment or above could possibly be fools. If they truly were fools, they could hardly have survived, could they?
Su Jiu glanced at the unwanted spirit-draining stone still resting in her hand, then waved the stone containing the fourfold spirit root. "If no one wants it, I'll throw it away." With that, she tossed it onto the ground.
As Lu Chuchu watched the spirit-draining stone land on the ground, her expression shifted only slightly. Then, as though it had never belonged to her, she did not spare it another glance.
Had Su Jiu's divine sense not been so keen, even she might have been fooled.
Then everyone heard Su Jiu say, "If the spirit root inside a spirit-draining stone belongs to you, nurturing it in your dantian will restore it to its original state. But if it isn't yours, without vast quantities of heavenly treasures to sustain it, the spirit root will wither sooner or later. As it disappears, your cultivation will drain away bit by bit as well."
Surprise flashed through Lu Chuchu's eyes, and her fingernails involuntarily dug into her palms. Why didn't this female cultivator say so sooner!
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