The middle-aged cultivator in the Treasure Pavilion smiled and glanced at Yelin. "It seems Junior Brother is someone who values defense very much."
With that, he flicked his finger, sending a stream of vital energy into a huge stone cabinet behind him. A moment later, one of the cabinet doors swung open to reveal a massive, faintly glowing green shield crafted from a turtle shell—precisely the Turtle-Patterned Dharmic Shield Yelin had chosen.
Yelin's main combat strength currently came from his spirit insects, while the *Five Elements Vajra Skill* was essentially a stubborn tortoise technique, offering very limited combat capability at this stage. Therefore, when selecting a Dharmic artifact, he completely disregarded offense, adopting a "head-in-the-shell" strategy in battle: survival was everything, and then some.
Chapter 23