Minister's Residence.
Study.
Zeng Anmin sat upright before Zeng Shilin.
Father and son had not seen each other for over two months.
Now that they were sitting together again, Zeng Anmin felt inexplicably restrained.
"Tell me. What trouble exactly did you stir up in the Jiang Kingdom?"
Zeng Shilin's gaze carried a trace of heaviness.
He stared at Zeng Anmin's hand beneath the desk, clenched tightly into a fist.
The few things Zeng Anmin had said during the meal just now had been far too fantastical.
They had even been somewhat laughable.
"How could that be called stirring up trouble?"
Zeng Anmin muttered, "I was only doing it for my own body..."
"Hmph!"
The more Zeng Shilin spoke of this, the angrier he became. His gaze sharpened.
"Why did you not tell your father that your body was unwell?!"
There was a thread of fury in his voice.
"I didn't want to make you worry too much, and besides, didn't I resolve it myself?"
Zeng Anmin lifted his head and said weakly,
"And even if I had told you, you might not have known what to do."
"Before you departed, all you told your father was that you wished to travel the mountains and rivers in search of an opportunity to break through."
Zeng Shilin kept a stern face and sat ramrod straight. This was a sign that he was about to lose his temper.
"That was the first matter. The second was that, while fighting disciples of the Profound Formation Division that day, I carelessly fell into his trap and was infected with Bizarre Qi."
Zeng Anmin took a deep breath. "But I have already found the Heavenly Lotus and successfully eliminated the Bizarre Qi."
"Instead, disaster turned into fortune, and I successfully comprehended Lesser Heart Scrutiny, reaching the