"Senior Sister."
Chen Sanshi noticed something unusual about her and asked, "Have you encountered any abnormalities in your cultivation recently?"
"Abnormalities?"
Sun Li shook her head.
Chen Sanshi frowned slightly. "Senior Sister, if you run into any problems, you must tell me. I'll help you solve them."
"Mm, all right."
Sun Li merely nodded without saying anything more.
Chen Sanshi could only suppress his doubts for the time being and ask instead, "How is your progress?"
Sun Li answered, "At most three more years, and I'll be able to enter the True Force Mid Stage."
He remembered that his senior sister's talent had once been mediocre, and she had been unable to break through to the Martial Saint Realm no matter what. Yet now, she was advancing by leaps and bounds, cultivating faster than most cultivators.
So this was what it meant to have one's mind enlightened.
It was only a pity that Xu Wencai had left too early. Otherwise, he might have been able to cultivate to extend his life.
With the court's affairs temporarily settled, Chen Sanshi planned to leave the Eastern Continent. Following his master Lord of Mount Tai's guidance, he would head to the Myriad Monster Kingdom to find the Nine-Tailed Fox Demon Bai Suyin, cultivate within her Blessed Land, and gather the spiritual materials he would need next.
Before setting off.
Chen Sanshi summoned Xu Bin and the other veteran generals once more, only to discover that their bodies also carried a faint, nearly imperceptible strand of baleful aura.
He questioned them.
Xu Bin answered, "Your Majesty, when we stole spiritual roots back then, we used quite a few spiritual plants of the yin-baleful kind. Perhaps there were some side effects."
Chen Sanshi pondered for a moment. "I'll have someone find purification methods for you