"They've been spying and divining more and more often."
Mi Shanglian answered, then explained further,
"Shan Sheng guarded the tree for forty years, and they made only one calculation. I've guarded it for twenty years, and they've acted four times in all-two divinations and two attempts to spy. And the intervals keep getting shorter. The most recent was on the day of your memorial-submission ceremony as True Lord. They probably wanted to act while all our attention was on you. I never expected them to lose patience again after just a few months. Clearly, they're growing more and more anxious."
"Hmph!"
Cheng Xinzhan snorted coldly.
"Of course they're growing anxious. First, the patriarchs have blocked them every time, so they've never seen what the Immortal Tree looks like. Naturally, the itch is unbearable. Second, they know what we first obtained was an Immortal Core, and that it would take a long time to sprout and grow into a tree, so they were fairly patient at first. But as time passed, they naturally couldn't sit still. They wanted to see whether the Immortal Sprout had become a tree, whether it had flowered, and whether it had borne fruit." Mi Shanglian nodded and said,
"That should be the reason."
Then Ancestor Mi looked at Cheng Xinzhan again, some wonder in her eyes, and said,
"Your abilities truly are remarkable now. I can no longer see through you. I control the Mountain-Guarding Grand Array and the Paradise's Spirit Restrictions, and my realm is one higher than yours, yet even my reactions fall short of yours. In the past, Shan Sheng and I only managed to block and disperse Dragon-Tiger Mountain's spying. We never traced it back and secured concrete evidence, much less forced Dragon-Tiger Mountain to use the Celestial Master Sword. Truly, each