Elder Tiegu True Immortal really prepared a lot for the battle with Immortal Yi Jue.

However, the Void True Intent Stone he activated wasn’t aimed at Yi Jue, but was mainly to guard against the possible appearance of Feng Jun.

This thing wasn’t something he borrowed, but rather something he inadvertently obtained while sweeping through a Sky Demon Nest Cave.

At first, he didn’t know what this thing was and didn’t particularly treasure it. Later, when this object came into contact with some void-related items, those items would undergo changes, leading him to investigate the origin of this thing.

He investigated for hundreds of years and eventually learned from a True Immortal from a secret realm clan that this might be a Void True Intent Stone.

For these five words, he expended favors worth at least fifty high Spirit Stones.

At the time, Tiegu didn’t think he would ever need this item, so he tossed it into a secret chamber.

It wasn’t until he encountered Feng Jun, who could launch attacks from the void, that he brought this item along—the Void True Intent isn’t just useful for defense in the void; it can also be used to pursue someone into the void and several other functions.

Once he entered the void, he constantly considered how to handle the situation, but one thing was clear: he didn’t want to waste spiritual energy casually. He even thought about Feng Jun’s method of risking bodily harm by using Spirit Stones to explosively generate spiritual energy.

The reason he chose such a big stone was precisely for the preparation of Spirit Stone explosion.

After much thought, he still chose the most reliable method—first do nothing, conserve his breath and preserve his life as the priority. Should Yi Jue and others manage to find him, he could immediately start a fight.

If he replenishes spiritual energy first and the Spirit Stone explodes causing internal injuries, then potential hazards will exist when he wants to act.

Can the Spirit Stone cause internal injuries to a Nascent Soul Peak? Absolutely, while the Nascent Soul’s body is strong, it also requires a lot of spiritual energy, including middle and high Spirit Stone supplements, which certainly poses the risk of explosive injury.

The spiritual energy in Tiegu’s body was just about sixty percent, with the remaining forty percent not urgently needing replenishment. After three to five months, if Yi Jue and the others haven’t come looking, there would still be time to replenish.

Unfortunately, the situation he most wanted to avoid appeared, but it was fortunate that his preparation was quite thorough, and crucially, he owned the Void True Intent Stone, which in the void, served as the most orthodox defense rule.

The Jade Spore Skyworm attempted to attack him but was directly bounced off; Immortal Yi Jue’s Green Luo Heavenly Net, though wondrous, was also deflected.

In such circumstances, no matter how much spiritual energy the opponent possesses, it doesn’t matter—those attacks initially violate void rules, weakening significantly overall, let alone his defense being the most orthodox!

Tiegu now considered that the opponent’s peak True Immortal included two people and one insect, plus one Initial Golden Core stage, which was no real concern, while he was alone.

However, since he held the rules in hand, he was not very worried. His proper tactic was to induce the opponent to expend more spiritual energy, allowing him to escape safely, and if operated skillfully, possibly counter-kill one or two.

Yet he didn’t expect his methods to be recognized by the opponent, which made him momentarily irritated—to know that the Void True Intent Stone wasn’t infinite, the next operation posed challenges.

Elder Qing Ji grasped the other’s intent upon understanding this, feeling somewhat upset—this guy had a void defense rule protecting him, making things quite difficult.

Enduring consumption wasn’t the problem... with Feng Jun present, spiritual energy could be replenished anytime, but the critical issue was ineffective attacks, causing headaches.

She looked toward Immortal Yi Jue, "I’m just witnessing; if he responds to the challenge, you two manage it, I won’t easily interfere. However, I believe such an item like the Void True Intent Stone... can’t be endless in reserve."

Eventually, she noticed Tiegu’s weakness. Wanting to endure consumption, their side wasn’t bad either, hardly believing that the Void True Intent could have much more.

But these matters were not hers to decide; Yi Jue had to take the lead—without proper authority, words wouldn’t be proper.

"Then let’s do it!" Yi Jue’s body suddenly lunged forward, raising the horsetail whisk in hand, which suddenly extended nearly a hundred meters, sweeping towards Tiegu suspended above.

Tiegu True Immortal could completely dodge this move, but he had already decided to exhaust the opponent’s spiritual energy, feigning a deliberate retreat, and was "carelessly" brushed by the tip of the horsetail whisk.

Once touched, the whisk’s tip felt electrically charged, bouncing away immediately, but Tiegu True Immortal didn’t fare well either; with action and reaction equal, he was directly propelled far away.

On the surface, neither suffered losses, nor gained an advantage, but in truth, it was different.

Yi Jue seriously utilized spiritual energy, while Tiegu merely used a tiny amount, "coincidentally" retreating to the whisk’s tip before bouncing off, with no spiritual energy consumption, relying entirely on void rules for defense.

He designed it this way initially, only to be exposed by the sly Feng namesake, now seeing Yi Jue still opting for such attacks, he couldn’t help but scoff internally: With such vision and intellect, this fellow claims to be an emerging talent, but Spirit Plant Dao seems to lack resources!

With such thoughts internally, he outwardly sneered, "It’s useless; do you intend to break the Void True Intent?"

In his view, regardless of deceiving the opponent into frequent attacks, it was always right; the gentle spiritual energy coming from Tianqin, expending a bit more was beneficial, for when you want to replenish later, what you’re adding is "explosively generated spiritual energy."

Explosive spiritual energy can also be used, but ultimately it’s not as effective as the spiritual energy absorbed in the Tianqin Plane.

As for using a spatial physique cultivator to help build a Spirit Restoration Array? Sorry, Elder Tiegu really hasn’t considered it.

He’s not particularly conservative or old-fashioned, occasionally having some unconventional ideas—which is an essential quality for a cultivator. However, he has never encountered such an operation before, and couldn’t think of it in a hurry.

Yi Jue drove spiritual energy forward, sweeping the horsetail whisk in her hand once again—there’s no choice, techniques are largely impractical here, weapon attacks are necessary, and she has no other options.

"You’re not going to make it..." Elder Tiegu sneered and spoke, unexpectedly hearing Yi Jue’s faint snort, "Attack!"

Attack? He was a bit puzzled, could it be that you have an ambush here?

However, even if there was an ambush, so what? Cultivators from Tianqin coming here would be useless... unless you have connections in the void!

Yet, before this thought could end, he heard a "ha" sound, white light flashed, and crackling lightning appeared on the pink aura.

For a moment, Elder Tiegu was shocked, "What is this?"

He turned his head to look, the white light was actually emitted from Qing Ji’s direction, "Qing Ji, what are you doing? Is this a force to overwhelm with numbers?"

Elder Qing Ji originally intended to ignore him, but at this moment in the battle, she was recording with an image stone, and upon hearing this she snorted coldly, "I didn’t do anything, open your eyes wide and see clearly... it wasn’t me."

"You little thief, it was you?" True Immortal Tiegu looked at Feng Jun, itching with anger, "Do you dare interfere in a True Immortal’s battle?"

"How rare indeed," Feng Jun sneered, "When so many True Immortals surrounded me during the Initial Golden Core Stage, did you consider my feelings at all? And now you dislike my interference... Bah, you have some nerve!"

This insult was spot on, Elder Qing Ji even thought that the image stone didn’t fear being shown to others—this battle was originally one of vengeance, was there a problem with a Small Golden Core involved?

In the midst of this clamor, the lightning on the pink light shield continued unceasingly, but after all, Feng Jun was only at the Initial Golden Core Stage. Although condensing energy into steel is a void obliteration technique, the quantity of true intent within the void true intent stone is indeed copious.

Yi Jue’s horsetail whisk reached again, still bounced off by the dazzling lightning of the pink light shield, albeit less sharply than last time.

Just as the horsetail whisk was bounced away, Feng Jun opened his mouth once more, and a white light sprang forth, "Ha~"

At this moment, Elder Tiegu truly wanted to dodge, but unfortunately, here in the void, his reactions and teleportation were slowed a bit, and he was hit hard again.

The arcs of lightning on the light shield had yet to completely disappear, but after this strike, the arcs became intense again, the void glowing bright, crackling without pause.

Elder Tiegu glanced at the void true intent stone, utterly shocked: just these two strikes, the true intent decreased by two percent?

If this guy shouted a hundred times, wouldn’t I have no true intent protection at all?

He didn’t even think about it, just turned around and ran. At this time, not using spiritual energy wasn’t an option; once the true intent was exhausted, facing three Nascent Soul Peak cultivators left him only the option to kneel—they wouldn’t even need to kill him, just trap him in the void where he couldn’t escape.

He fled in a flash of lightning, looking very much like a strip of LED lights.

"Where do you think you’re going, thief?" Immortal Yi Jue chased after him directly, with True Immortal Qing Ji along with Feng Jun following close behind.

Actually, Feng Jun also felt frustrated, the spiritual energy inside him now was only enough for one more condensation of energy into steel, so he took out his mobile phone and swiped, "Elder Qing Ji, you chase him first, I’ll go recover some spiritual energy."

"Then go ahead," Elder Qing Ji really gave him face, releasing him directly and stopping her body, "I’ll wait here for you, go quickly and return promptly."

Feng Jun was not shy, simply tapped his mobile phone, returned to the Big Stone, released Liu Yiyi, and began recovering spiritual energy.

Spiritual Restoration Array recovers spiritual energy faster than Spirit Gathering Array. It would take at least three days with a Spirit Gathering Array to recover the spiritual energy he now lacks. For recovery without any side effects, eight to ten days would be best.

Whereas the Spiritual Restoration Array only took a day and a half, indicating that it does have some side effects on the body.

After replenishing spiritual energy, Feng Jun used footprints to teleport to Elder Qing Ji’s side, "Where have they... gone?"

He could no longer see Yi Jue and True Immortal Tiegu, and... seemed to have lost the sense of the Transpatial Vine more than a thousand miles away.

"That old thief Tiegu ran away," True Immortal Qing Ji responded laughing and crying, "He also tried to coax the Transpatial Vine to ally with him, but with the Jade Spore Skyworm around, the Transpatial Vine ran too. I deliberately stayed here to wait for you."

(First update of September, asking for guaranteed monthly tickets.)