At that thought, Jiang Chen stared at the Heavenly Sacrifice Item in his hand and sank into thought again.
Er Leng's concealment methods could be called the pinnacle of perfection. He could easily fool both Jiang Chen, whose intuition was monstrous, and Tie Zhu, who had recovered his Five-Step King strength.
Yet he had nowhere to hide before this stone pillar.
Although Er Leng had barely been hurt by its repeated blows, making its lack of strength apparent, its perception alone was enough to be called heaven-defying.
There was something else, too.
No matter how Jiang Chen had called to it earlier, it had not responded, yet when he was attacked, it had taken the initiative to strike.
That left Jiang Chen rather baffled.
Could this stone pillar want to follow him, just like Tie Zhu?
But in that case, shouldn't it introduce itself and pay its respects first? What was the point of playing deaf and dumb?
"Er Zhu? Little Stone? Little Heaven? Little Sacrifice? Be good and say something. Uncle won't hurt you."
After all, he had just benefited from its help. Jiang Chen called to it as gently as he could, but after repeated failures, his tone gradually grew irritable again.
"You little thing, am I being too nice to you again?!"
Finally, he could stand it no longer. He grabbed the stone pillar and swung his arm in great circles like a windmill.
After nearly ten thousand revolutions, it finally could not take any more. It shot a short distance away with a whoosh and floated unsteadily in midair, seemingly still dizzy.
A moment later, the stone pillar dropped back down, letting Jiang Chen pick it up again.
"It doesn't seem to be deliberately hiding the fact that it's conscious. It's just, it's just..."
Jiang Chen