Build the Blood Pool, Break Through the Ninth Layer, Ten Thousand Daos End, the Dao Physique Lies Hidden (Extended Chapter)

What condition was Black King in now?

After months of careful examination, Luo Chen had come to understand it.

His body had suffered devastating injuries, almost beyond reconstruction.

His Demon Core had shattered. The Demon Power he had cultivated over centuries had either scattered or seeped into his broken bones.

His soul was nearly extinguished, like a tiny flame flickering on the verge of going out.

To anyone, injuries like these were no different from a death sentence.

In truth, it was only natural that he had been hurt so badly.

Even after the Pill Hall's great formation had blunted the explosion of a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure layer by layer, the residual shock alone was more than Black King could withstand head-on.

Had he not built such a strong foundation, soaked in the Spirit Shaping Holy Spring, and received Luo Chen's protection after Bodily Nirvana ended, Black King would likely have died in the Pill Hall then and there.

After being gravely wounded, Black King had instinctively entered hibernation through the Cliff Serpent method.

That had preserved his soul, though it could have gone out at any moment.

But that was all.

There was no chance he could recover on his own.

Even with every Medical Arts technique at his disposal, Luo Chen had repaired only a tiny fraction of his physical injuries.

To Tian Xuan, who had watched from the side, even if Luo Chen saved Black King, he would be little better than a cripple.

The reason was simple!

His Demon Core was shattered. He could no longer advance along the Great Dao.

Yet Tian Xuan could hardly bear to leave him to die. The two demons had joined Luo Chen one after the other. Though they seldom got along, they were friends all the same.

Luo Chen