Chapter 921: Little Heavenly Doctor Li Fan

Vast spiritual power was continuously channeled into the body of the clone, Li Qing. But the body, which should have healed quickly, was instead constantly shattering during its regeneration. It felt like the agony of having one's bones stripped and soul extracted. Feeling the pain emanating from his clone, even Li Fan couldn't help but frown slightly.

It seemed there was an extremely strange power lurking around the wound, preventing it from healing. This power would not disappear with the destruction of the physical body; instead, like maggots clinging to bone, it would infiltrate the cultivator's Dao foundation. Li Fan had a premonition that if left unchecked, even his clone's "Heavenly Wonder" Grotto-Heaven might be corroded.

"Previously, the Sky-Patrolling Arrows didn't seem this powerful; it's as if they are specifically designed to target cultivators of the new law."

"Not only has their number expanded many times over, but their lethality has also been enhanced..."

Recalling the increasing number of Sky-Patrolling Arrows in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance's sky, Li Fan felt a rare surge of unease. Because in his view, while these Sky-Patrolling Arrows were individual entities, they could potentially form a vast formation covering the entire Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance. Connecting dots to cover the whole, they could weave a colossal net that overshadowed the sky, just like the Profound Net Li Fan had encountered before.

Momentarily, Li Fan activated the abilities of the Terminal Disintegration Disc and began to deduce. After about a few breaths, the Disintegration Disc's calculation results confirmed the feasibility of Li Fan's hypothesis. Li Fan also recalled the new defensive formation that his clone encountered upon returning. It was almost certain that the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance had been brewing something big recently. It remained to be seen what would suddenly be revealed to surprise the Council of Five Elders.

"Perhaps, it's not unrelated to Mo Rubing, who replaced the original Dharma transmitter." Li Fan's eyes narrowed slightly, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind. A moment later, he decided to put it aside for now.

The most urgent matter at hand was to heal his clone first. The Heavenly Wonder's achievement of the Dao foundation was hard-won. If it were destroyed so easily, that would truly be a pity.

While his clone was at the Council of Five Elders, Li Fan had been painstakingly studying the "Heaven-Mending Record" in a secluded cultivation chamber within the Spiritwood Realm, combining it with the "Celestial Physician Immortal Scripture" and various materials collected over multiple reincarnations. Currently, Li Fan could be said to have just grasped the basics in the art of healing. Furthermore, this "grasping the basics" level was in comparison to a Celestial Physician. Compared to common healers in the Xuanhuang Realm, Li Fan's level was far superior, almost overwhelmingly so. After all, with a Celestial Physician's lifetime of experience as his theoretical foundation, becoming a quack doctor would actually be difficult.

"To overcome a divine affliction, one must first weaken the spirit, then mend the wounds…" Li Fan recalled the contents of the Heaven-Mending Record, his expression solemn. He separated a wisp of his spiritual power, enveloped it in pure spiritual energy, and formed several silver needles. Then, with a gentle wave, all these silver needles pierced into Li Qing's damaged body and disappeared.

The clone, which had been resisting the pain and whose body was constantly twitching, instantly fell into a deep sleep. Even intense pain could not be felt; it was as if it had already died. Holding his breath for a moment, Li Fan's mind stirred: "Quick!" Instantly, all the silver needles returned. They lined up in a row before Li Fan.

The originally silvery-white needle bodies, in this short time, had turned completely dark and dull. It was as if some kind of toxin had been absorbed through the needle tips. Li Fan sensed his own spiritual power within these silver needles. He found that after being tainted by these dark toxins, his spiritual power seemed to be directly transformed, quickly becoming inert.

"Quite powerful."

"However, compared to the illness I previously saw in Han Zhong, this is still more than a notch weaker."

"After all, this dark power merely dissipates spiritual power. I have the Limitless Replenishment Method, so even if spiritual power is consumed, it can be quickly replenished."

"But that external illness directly affected the spiritual power's maximum limit."

As Li Fan thought this, his hands did not stop. Silver needles continuously flew into Li Qing's body, then brought out the constantly eroding dark power. As the culprit disappeared, Li Qing's complexion gradually improved. As for the dark power that had been extracted, Li Fan temporarily sealed and preserved all of it with his seven-colored divine light. Perhaps studying it later would yield a pleasant surprise.

The treatment took a full stick of incense to complete. When he confirmed that the last trace of dark power had been expelled, Li Fan finally let out a long breath.

"The Heaven-Mending Record is indeed remarkable. A small test of its capabilities allowed me to resolve the major weapon still being experimented with by the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance." The principle of this treatment was simple. It involved suppressing the spiritual activity of the clone, Li Qing, then injecting his own spiritual power into it via the silver needles, acting as bait, to draw out the harmful substance. Of course, to complete the treatment without causing spiritual damage to the patient, the healer needed extremely high attainment in spiritual power. If the patient hadn't been his own clone, whom Li Fan knew intimately, and if he hadn't had the Limitless Replenishment Method for a continuous supply of spiritual power, the treatment would not have been so easy.

After some time, Li Qing slowly regained consciousness. The first thing he said was: "The Sky-Patrolling Arrows locking onto me wasn't bad luck. It must be that when I breached the defensive formation, some trace was left on my body."

"That's why I was attacked by the Sky-Patrolling Arrows."

Li Fan nodded slightly: "I also thought of that."

"That new formation indeed has some tricks to it. Although it didn't seem particularly difficult to break through, now that I think about it, the flaws were deliberately exposed."

"It's like a lure; when a formation master follows the exposed flaws and seemingly breaks the formation, they have actually quietly triggered a mark."

"Using this mark, in conjunction with the now ubiquitous Sky-Patrolling Arrows within the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, it's enough to achieve post-event assassination."

"It seems Lu Xichan's return still has some use. A formation that appears to be defensive but is actually a trap truly requires a certain level of skill to devise," Li Fan said slowly.

Li Qing also sighed, "Fortunately, I have the Heavenly Wonder as my Dao foundation, and my flesh and blood are integrated with the Sword Dao. So even if I left blood traces, I wouldn't fear being tracked. If it were an ordinary cultivator, even if they survived the Sky-Patrolling Arrows, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance could still track them for thousands of miles based on the cultivator's blood adhering to the arrows."

"In any case, let's lie low for a while. The Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance has prepared so many trump cards; it seems they are about to make a big move. We just have to wait and see," Li Fan instructed.

Li Qing nodded in agreement. Then, he tapped his glabella, and a silver light containing the Xuan Tian Sect's cultivation method flew out from his mind. Li Fan was very cautious and did not directly observe it with his main body. Instead, while his clone read it, through cognitive synchronization, the contents of the cultivation method were recorded one by one in his main body's mind. Each of the Xuan Tian Sect's cultivation methods, in terms of its vastness, far surpassed any currently existing cultivation method in the Xuanhuang Realm.