Zu An put up his guard. “Don’t tell me you’re going to beat me up?”

The Phoenix Nirvana Sutra increased his cultivation whenever he took a beating. However, he was at the eighth rank right now, so he needed a seemingly endless amount of ki. It wasn’t something that a light beating could fill up.

Mi Li rolled her eyes. “You’re now so tough I don’t even feel like beating you up. I’m talking about another power. When that Old Mi tried to possess you, his cultivation went inside of you. I sealed that, remember?”

“I do!” Zu An’s eyes filled with tears. “You said that it would affect my cultivation foundation and didn’t let me absorb it. I missed out a chance to immediately become amazing! I almost forgot about it after all this time.”

“Hmph, of course I had to interfere to stop you from ruining your own prospects,” Mi Li said. “However, you should be able to absorb it now with your current cultivation.”

“Really?” Zu An’s eyes lit up. “Then wouldn’t...