Another three months passed in the blink of an eye.
Besides carrying out his routine patrol and guard duties, Lin Ze occasionally summoned Qingtian.
First, he wanted to ask how Qingtian and Little White Tiger were doing.
Second, he wanted to deepen their bond while having Qingtian continue taking his "dragon blood" to strengthen his body.
Since he was on the battlefield, however, Lin Ze chose to use ordinary blood rather than essence blood. Whenever he summoned Qingtian, he also had him take a small bottle of his blood back for Little White Tiger.
He devoted most of his remaining energy to training.
Opening the Eight Gates Released Formation required an exceptionally strong physique. More than a year had passed since he first opened the Fifth Gate, the Gate of Limit, yet he still could not open the Sixth Gate, the Gate of View. Thus, Lin Ze never neglected his daily basic physical training.
The other ability he focused on training was perception. His sensing range in a single direction had now reached around two and a half kilometers. Although it was still nowhere near the absurd level of the Mind's Eye of the Kagura, Lin Ze was quite satisfied, and that range continued to expand steadily.
During this time, Lin Ze could clearly sense that Tsunade's condition was growing worse.
Her fear of blood had not improved. Instead, remaining on the fringes of the battlefield had made it even more severe.
Sometimes, merely seeing a little dark red seeping through a bandage or catching the faint scent of blood in the air would make her breathing quicken, leaving her needing Shizune's support to stand steadily.
She spent more and more time in the main command tent and almost never went outside anymore, passing all her orders through Shizune.
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