All things considered, Chu Luohen had probably contributed the most among them. Lately, he had distinctly felt his cultivation improve again.
His sword was fast-so fast that even cultivators at the same cultivation level could hardly keep up with his strikes.
It was precisely this that allowed him to fight Li Gou on equal footing.
Yet although Chu Luohen posed the greatest threat to Li Gou, Li Gou's primary target remained not him, but Su Jiu, whose power could severely corrode him.
However, with the amount of spiritual qi she could use currently restricted, Su Jiu had to weigh every expenditure carefully. She dared not use it without restraint.
At her peak, fighting the corrupted Li Gou alone would not have been a problem. After all, her own spiritual qi had a powerful suppressive effect on things like him.
But she plainly could not manage that now. Her spiritual qi could indeed injure him, but because she could not unleash it on a large scale, even the damage Li Gou sustained was not particularly severe.
Another blade-sharp gust of sinister wind hurtled toward Su Jiu's face. She raised her index and middle fingers and lightly traced them through the air, and a talisman appeared between them.
The Wind Blade was fast, but Su Jiu activated her talisman even faster. Just as the wind blade was about to strike her, a thin membrane abruptly blocked its path. The wind blade vanished, and the membrane disappeared along with it.
When spiritual qi was nearly exhausted, talismans undoubtedly became a cultivator's last refuge, for activating one required very little spiritual qi. The trade-off was that talismans were consumables, and against an enemy with Out-of-Body strength, the talismans required would have to be of a very high grade.
Such talismans were generally in far