The face brought its emotions under control and slowly spoke. "Why are you asking about... Forget it. I'll just tell you."
He truly disliked pointless communication, so he gave a brief explanation.
His own lifespan was nearly spent, but because he owed someone karma, he had helped another attempt to break through to the Out-of-Body Realm.
That person's attempt at reaching Out-of-Body had been rather forced, but in that situation, even a Grand Lord could do nothing.
The moment the face sensed that the other party absolutely could not succeed in reaching Out-of-Body, it forcibly halted the imminent advancement.
As for that kind of method... Qu Jianlei only needed to hear about it. Without reaching Spirit Severing, it was absolutely impossible to do.
After stopping the other party, the face directly adopted a backup method—the very advancement approach Qu Jianlei had chosen.
The secret arts of the Cultivation World were bizarre and varied, and its cultivation methods and secret techniques were countless, but overall, there were only so many cultivation paths.
As a Grand Lord, the face had already anticipated that if one path failed, another could be tried.
But the problem was that he was not very familiar with this latter path either.
Even if he had already foreseen this situation beforehand, how could such an important method be casually deduced?
The face had a general idea. He pondered it while teaching the other party and also controlled the tempo—this was not difficult to do.
However, the process of probing was long. Up to now, it had already continued for more than two hundred years.
Previously, he had believed that if even he, a mighty Spirit Severing expert, could not deduce a path, then no one else possibly could.
In total, he had only heard of two True Venerable