Nian Wanzhou: ...Are you trying to kill me?!
Having no other choice, Nian Wanzhou slowly flew towards them, took a deep breath to prepare her explanation, and a long white dragon appeared before Nan Yu and the other two.
"Wanwan..." Nanyu looked at her in surprise, but then her expression turned to disbelief and confusion. "How come you've grown up? Wanwan."
Le Xi was the same; the two of them looked at her with suspicion, scrutinizing her to see what the problem was.
It looked a little bigger before, but not this exaggerated.
How come you've grown so much in just a few days?
"Well, it's just... I absorbed a lot of black mist before, and because there was too much, it caused me to swell up now," Nian Wanzhou explained, then transformed into human form and landed, looking somewhat embarrassed.
Nan Yu felt a little sad, thinking: Wanwan has grown so big, he can't even hold her anymore.
But he trusted Nian Wanzhou completely.
“Wanwan has grown up…” Nan Yu said regretfully, looking at Nian Wanzhou who had grown to his shoulder and gesturing, “You’ve grown up so fast, I can’t hold you anymore.”
"I didn't want to either, but I suddenly grew up. I just woke up not long ago and I was scared. I was afraid you wouldn't recognize me, so I hid." Nian Wanzhou said helplessly, and only after walking to stand next to Nan Yu did she realize that she was quite tall.
Le Xi scrutinized her for a long time. It was so fake. If it weren't for the familiar, annoying dragon aura she carried, he would have thought that Nian Wanzhou had been replaced.
Finally, "The fact that you're awake means you're alright. As for how you look... let the sect leader and the others take a look at what the problem is. Let's go, the sect leader and the others are waiting for you to wake up."
"Are the sect leader and master alright?" Nian Wanzhou asked as she walked.
“Except for you and… everyone else is fine, they’ve all recovered from their injuries in two months,” Le Xi said after a pause, the three of them knowing exactly who she was referring to.
A moment of silence fell.
Inside the main hall, the sect leader had finished discussing the opening of the secret realm and the selection of personnel with the other sect leaders. He was about to speak with the elders when he sensed Nian Wanzhou's aura.
"She's finally awake." The sect leader said, standing in front of the star map with his hands behind his back. He had been waiting for Nian Wanzhou to wake up for a long time, and he was finally able to do so. He figured that the delay in opening the secret realm was probably also to wait for her to wake up.
Otherwise, the secret realm, which opens on time every year and never waits for those who are absent, has been closed for a long time this year.
Only in the last few days have there been faint signs of it starting to open.
"Sect Master, Junior Sister has woken up, but she... is acting strangely." Le Xi led the person in and, after receiving an announcement, reported in a low voice.
Upon hearing this, the sect leader looked up and revealed the same expression that Nan Yu had when she first saw Nian Wanzhou.
"You've... grown up?" The sect leader sensed Nian Wanzhou's aura and, after confirming it several times, finally acknowledged that Nian Wanzhou was still Nian Wanzhou.
I hadn't seen her for just two months, and she had grown up so much.
Nian Wanzhou unconsciously reached out and touched her face. She was surprised by how well she had grown; she was even more astonished than she had ever imagined. If she hadn't looked the same as before, she probably wouldn't have recognized herself.
"Sect Master, it's a long story, so I'll keep it short." Nian Wanzhou said earnestly. Her appearance was exactly the same as before she grew up, so there was no doubt that she had been replaced. "I became like this because I absorbed too much black mist. My original body was too small to bear it, so... it swelled up."
This would be a rare sight anywhere, let alone in the world of cultivation.
Fortunately, it is precisely because it is the world of cultivation that, although strange, such strange phenomena do exist.
Nian Wanzhou dared not offer any explanation, so he could only fabricate a lie, using the black fog as the culprit, to get away with it.
"I'll have the Second Elder come and examine you, just in case any other side effects occur." The sect leader, without suspecting anything, immediately sent Lexi to fetch someone.
Nian Wanzhou: ...Fortunately, the sect leader and the others are easy to fool, and the lie was not difficult to tell, which made her breathe a little easier. She finally managed to fool them and get through this matter.
Soon, several elders gathered around, and their first reaction upon seeing Nian Wanzhou was...
They're all the same.
“Master, elders…” Nian Wanzhou was startled by the grand scene, just like when she first entered the sect and was surrounded by onlookers.
The elder patted her head and comforted her, "Don't panic."
Yuheng was also nearby, his arm still bandaged, and he almost couldn't squeeze in. He didn't even have the hands to hug her; given Nian Wanzhou's size, he couldn't possibly lift her.
"Don't be afraid, Wanwan. The Second Elder is just checking your injuries. It's nothing."
After the Second Elder examined the body, he calmly said, "There's nothing wrong. Whether it's the elixir, the spiritual power, or even the entire body, there's nothing wrong. On the contrary, as the body has grown, the elixir has also become larger. At the same time, the spiritual power is also more abundant, even more so than before. As for the cultivation level... it's still impossible to detect."
The sect leader's expression was solemn. Each investigation was restricted, and she would only reveal information if she herself was willing and if the circumstances allowed.
"Little dragon cub, can you feel the changes in your cultivation level?" The sect leader also wanted to pat his head, but Nian Wanzhou had grown too tall all of a sudden and couldn't reach him, so he awkwardly withdrew his hand.
“I don’t feel anything.” Nian Wanzhou shook her head.
What a joke! She could sense that she had broken through to the Golden Core stage before, but that was all because Little Heavenly Dao released it for her.
It has little to do with her.
If she continues to cultivate like this, perhaps she will be able to find out. She has never experienced what it feels like to have a high level of cultivation, so how would she know what level she has now?
She only learned it from others.
As for the competition, everyone's attention was focused on her becoming a body cultivator and wasting her talents; no one seemed to care about her cultivation level.
"That's settled then, everyone go back to your work." The sect leader waved his hand, dismissing the others. He was in a real bind now.
Nian Wanzhou didn't leave with them; she still had something to say to the sect leader. Then she looked at the sect leader's grayish-white eye and asked, "Sect leader, is your eye still not healed?"
"It's hopeless. My entire eyeball has been corroded by the black mist. Luckily, you were there, otherwise my whole body would have been corroded." The sect leader sat in the chair, still looking tired. He closed his eyes to rest, not looking at Nian Wanzhou.
"Sect Master, I can actually heal you." After thinking for a moment, Nian Wanzhou finally spoke up. "I couldn't save Third Senior Brother, but your eyes... I can heal them."
"You...don't blame yourself too much. Protecting your fellow disciples is a rule that every disciple of the Heavenly Mystery Sect must learn upon entering the sect. Zhishan always loved you dearly, and even if the situation were repeated, he would still do the same. Besides, his death was all because of the Black Mist and that person, and you have already avenged him." The sect leader comforted her in a low voice, and then handed several memory stones to Nian Wanzhou.
“These are records of Zhishan’s previous cultivation. You can keep them; they were left to you by your master.”
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