Outside the county town.
Chen Lin found Grass and He Chengfeng. He put Grass back into the Space Bag to keep her as a hidden trump card, then turned to He Chengfeng.
"Have you noticed anything unusual about your body?"
Xu Qingyuan had said that they had already begun to be assimilated, but Chen Lin felt nothing himself and could not discern anyone else's condition, so he asked He Chengfeng to confirm it.
He Chengfeng had been wanting to bring this up for some time. He immediately replied, "Senior, I feel that my memories are beginning to blur. I have to make a tremendous effort to recall many things from the past. I haven't noticed anything physically, but I suspect the abnormal energy here has already begun to erode me. I need to leave as soon as possible."
Chen Lin drew a breath. He Chengfeng really had begun to change, which meant Xu Qingyuan had not lied.
As for how Xu Qingyuan had detected it, Chen Lin had no way of knowing. The people here had originally all been powerful cultivators, so possessing a few unusual methods was hardly surprising.
Yet he himself felt nothing, which puzzled him.
Chen Lin carefully pondered Xu Qingyuan's words, considering the few conditions he had mentioned that could exceed the upper limit of this place's rules and grant immunity to assimilation.
One was being able to circulate immortal spiritual power to cleanse oneself. He certainly could not do that. Only immortals possessed immortal spiritual power. Never mind him-the entire Southern Star Realm might not have any. There was no point even considering it.
Another was possessing an innate spirit treasure that could merge with its owner.
That was harder to judge.
He had actually long suspected that the Thunder God Sword was an embryonic