NOVPUBMajestic spiritual power was continuously transferred into the clone Li Qing’s body.
However, the body that should have healed quickly, was instead breaking apart and becoming disjointed in the process of rebirth.
It was like the agonizing pain of having one’s bones picked and soul extracted.
Feeling the agony transmitted from the clone, even Li Fan couldn’t help but frown slightly.
It seemed that an extremely strange force was entrenched around the wound, preventing it from healing.
This force would not disappear with the destruction of the physical body, but rather, like maggots in rotting flesh, it was infiltrating towards the cultivator’s Tao Foundation.
Li Fan had a premonition that if left unchecked, it was very possible that even the clone’s "Heaven’s Oddities" Cave Heaven would suffer erosion.
"The Sky Patrol Arrows didn’t seem to be this powerful before, as if they were specifically targeting New Law Cultivators."
"Not only has their number swelled by many times, but their lethality has also been enhanced..."
Thinking of the ever increasing number of Sky Patrol Arrows in the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals’ sky, Li Fan actually felt a rare surge of unease.
Because in his view, although these Sky Patrol Arrows were individual entities, they could very well form a huge Array Technique that blankets the entire Alliance of Thousands of Immortals.
Connecting points to cover an area, weaving a massive net that hides the sky.
Just as Li Fan had encountered the Xuan Net before.
In a trance, Li Fan used the powers of the Final Separation Disk and began to deduce.
After a few breaths, the results of the Dissociation Disk’s calculations confirmed the feasibility of Li Fan’s guess.
Li Fan then thought of the brand-new Protective Array that the clone encountered upon its return.
He could almost be certain that the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals has been brewing a significant event recently. It’s just a matter of what will suddenly be revealed to give the Five Elders Organization a surprise.
"Perhaps, it has some connection with that Mo Rubing, who took over from the Dharma Transmitter."
Li Fan’s eyes narrowed slightly, and countless thoughts flashed through his Spirit Consciousness.
A moment later, he decided to set it aside for now.
The most pressing matter was to heal the clone first.
The Heaven’s Oddities forming the Tao Foundation was not easily achieved. If it were to be destroyed so easily, that would truly be a pity.
While the clone visited the Five Elders Organization, Li Fan was always in the Spirit Tree Realm’s Secret room, diligently studying the [Sky Mending Record].
Combining the [Divine Doctor Immortal Tome], as well as various materials collected through many cycles of Reincarnation.
Now, Li Fan had a preliminary understanding of the [Art of Healing].
And this preliminary level of understanding was in comparison to the Celestial Doctor.
Compared to common healers in the Xuanhuang World, Li Fan was far superior, almost completely overpowering them.
After all, with the lifelong knowledge of the Celestial Doctor as a theoretical foundation, it would actually be difficult to become a mediocre doctor.
"To defeat the divine, one must first weaken its soul and supplement it with injuries..."
Li Fan recalled the contents of the Sky Mending Record, his expression solemn.
He split off a strand of Divine Soul Power, which, wrapped in pure spiritual power, formed several silver needles.
With a gentle wave of his hand, these silver needles all pierced into the decaying body of the clone Li Qing, disappearing from sight.
The clone, which had been resisting the pain and convulsing continuously, fell into a deep unconsciousness in an instant.
No matter how much pain there was, it could no longer be felt, as if it was already dead.
After waiting in silence for a moment, Li Fan’s thoughts moved: "Quickly!"
Suddenly, these silver needles all returned to their original state.
They lined up in front of Li Fan.
The originally silver-white body of the needle had turned dark and dull in just a short period of time.
It was as if some kind of poison was being drawn up along the tip of the array.
Li Fan sensed the power of his divine soul within these silver needles.
He found that once tainted with this dark toxin, the power of the divine soul seemed to be directly transformed, quickly subsiding.
"Impressive power," he murmured.
"However, compared to that [Disease] I encountered on Han Zhong, it’s still far weaker."
"After all, this dark power only dissipates the divine soul. With the Infinite Fulfillment and Emptiness Method, even if my divine soul is depleted, it can be quickly replenished."
"Whereas the disease from the Outer World directly affects the upper limit of the divine soul," he noted inwardly.
As Li Fan thought this, his hands continued their work without pause.
One needle after another flew into Li Qing’s body, subsequently drawing out the continuously encroaching dark power.
With the primary source of trouble gone, Li Qing’s complexion slowly improved.
As for the extracted dark forces, Li Fan then used the Seven-color Divine Light to temporarily seal and preserve them.
Perhaps there would be a pleasant surprise upon further study in the future.
The treatment took a full incense stick’s time.
When he was sure that the last vestige of the dark power had been expelled, Li Fan finally took a deep breath in relief.
"The Sky Mending Record truly is remarkable. A preliminary trial, and it resolved the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals’ experiment-in-progress superweapon."
The principle behind this treatment was, in fact, quite simple.
It was to suppress the activity of Li Qing’s divided divine soul, then the silver needles would inject their own divine soul power into it as bait.
To draw out the toxic substance.
Of course, in order to complete the treatment without damaging the patient’s divine soul, the doctor required exceptional mastery over the divine soul.
If it hadn’t been his own clone, whom Li Fan knew all too well, and he did not have the ever-replenishing power of the Infinite Fulfillment and Emptiness Method, the treatment would not have been so easy.
After a while, Li Qing slowly came to.
The first words she spoke were, "The targeting of the Sky Patrol Arrow wasn’t bad luck. It must have been that some trace was left on me when I broke through the Protective Array."
"That’s why I was attacked by the Sky Patrol Arrow."
Li Fan nodded slightly and said, "I had the same thought."
"That new Array Technique indeed has some tricks to it. Although it seems not particularly difficult to solve at a glance, in retrospect, the vulnerability was purposely left exposed."
"Like bait, when an Array Master follows the exposed flaws and seemingly breaks the array, they have actually quietly triggered a marker."
"Utilizing this marker, in conjunction with the Sky Patrol Arrows now ubiquitous within the border of the Immortal Alliance, they can accomplish a post-facto assassination."
"It seems that Lu Qixian’s return has been somewhat useful. Such an array that appears defensive but is actually a trap, without a certain level of skill, one truly cannot conceive of it," Li Fan mused slowly.
Li Qing also sighed and said, "Fortunately, I am Heaven’s Oddities as Tao Foundation, my flesh and blood integrated with the Law of the Sword. So even though I left blood traces, I’m not afraid of being tracked. If a regular cultivator were in my place, even if they survived the Sky Patrol Arrow, the Immortal Alliance could still track them thousands of miles away based on the cultivator’s blood on the arrow."
"Anyway, we should lay low for a while. With the Immortal Alliance preparing so many trump cards, it seems there are major moves afoot. We just have to wait and see," Li Fan advised.
Li Qing nodded in agreement.
Then she tapped her glabella, and the Silver Light containing the Mystic Sky Sect Technique flew out from her spirit consciousness.
Li Fan was very cautious and did not watch it with his main body.
Instead, his clone read it, and through cognitive synchronization, recorded the content of the technique into the main body’s spirit consciousness.
Every single one of the Mystic Sky Sect Techniques’ vastness surpassed that of any technique currently existing in the Xuanhuang World.
