Her mana had turned sluggish, and that usually meant only one possibility.
She had been poisoned!
"No, how could I have been poisoned?"
Qi Yunjin swallowed several Detoxification Pills, but no matter how she thought it over, she could not understand.
Recently, she had been cultivating inside the Imperial Palace the entire time and had not gone to the Northern Region to fight the Demonic Cultivators of Five Poisons Valley.
As the Great Qi Eldest Princess, everyone around her had a clean origin and an innocent background. Even ordinary maids had gone through layer after layer of screening, so the possibility of someone poisoning her was not high.
As she was pondering this, Qi Yunjin discovered another thing that startled and alarmed her.
The Tier 4 Detoxification Pill she had swallowed was actually ineffective against the symptoms of her stagnant mana!
"This poison is no ordinary poison!"
Her heart sank. If she could not detoxify it, then her path of cultivation would be considered severed.
In this state, how could she charge into the Nascent Soul realm?
She feared she would not even be able to complete the step of shattering her core and forming her Nascent Soul.
That very day, Qi Yunjin gave the order to thoroughly investigate everyone around her, not letting a single person go.
However, everyone was perfectly clean. Even after special interrogation spells were used, nothing could be pried out.
After eliminating every possibility, Qi Yunjin's gaze finally fell on the Nine Revolutions Fire Scale Pills she had been taking over the years.
"Could there be something wrong with this pill's Pill Recipe?"
She immediately brought the Pill Recipe and the pills to seek out Fourth-Order Alchemy Grandmaster Le Zheng.
The two discussed it at length, but they did not find any problem.
Afterward, they