"Treat an illness?"
Wei Liu paused, momentarily failing to understand what Tan Chengcheng meant.
Mostly because she wasn't ill.
"The cultivation malady of this realm's Dao Tradition," Tan Chengcheng explained.
Zhang Yuan had never forgotten about Wei Liu's condition. Only a True Lord or a Divine Master Great Immortal Lord could break the curse from the Six Heavenly Demon Kings. Now that Tan Chengcheng had arrived, he naturally wanted her to examine and treat Wei Liu before he left.
"Stand still. This princess will take a look at you."
Tan Chengcheng had Wei Liu stand straight. Golden light flashed through her bright eyes, sweeping over every detail of her limbs, bones, and internal organs. Even the many threads of karma attached to Wei Liu lay fully exposed to her gaze, which finally settled on Wei Liu's shoulder.
"Hmm... this princess can't cure it."
After pondering briefly, Tan Chengcheng gave her answer.
The root of the illness lay in the Cavern-Peering Lamp-Kindling Path itself. This was the necessary price that this Dao Tradition paid to obtain power from the Demon King Palace. Unless Wei Liu was stripped of all her cultivation, that price would remain for as long as she was a cultivator of the Cavern-Peering Lamp-Kindling Path. The influence of the Six Heavenly Demon Kings ran exceedingly deep, touching on karma, space-time, and life and death. Ordinary means could not resolve it perfectly.
It seemed these Six Heavenly Demon Kings did have a few tricks up their sleeves.
"Mm-hmm."
Wei Liu did not feel disappointed at Tan Chengcheng's words. After all, a cultivation method's malady followed a cultivator throughout their life from the moment they began cultivating. How could it be cured just like that?
Throughout the entire history of the Cavern-Peering Lamp-Kindling Path, not a single person had ever