Master Lakong's face instantly turned pale, and that twenty-year-old face rapidly aged, wrinkles crawling all over his cheeks.
In the blink of an eye, he had turned back into an eighty-year-old again—no, older than eighty, as if his body were decaying.
Li Chengjie's face greatly changed.
Suddenly, a transmitted message came from the direction of Shouxian Pavilion and fell into Lakong's ears.
"Bald donkey monk! Stop right now. With a Nascent Soul body and a decaying fleshly shell manipulating the power of law, you'll age rapidly and return to a decayed body."
It was Xian Ling'er's voice.
Master Lakong's whole body shook, and his finger stopped in midair.
That droplet of water hung suspended in the air, trembling slightly, then shattered, turning into specks of mist that disappeared.
He withdrew his hand, lowered his head to look at his withered hands, then looked toward Shouxian Pavilion. After a moment of silence, he raised his head to look at Li Chengjie and gave a bitter smile.
"Amitabha. This old monk lost his composure."
Li Chengjie quickly stepped forward and supported Master Lakong. He sensed the vitality inside Master Lakong's body rapidly draining away, as if something were drawing it out.
"Master, you..." Li Chengjie began, but he didn't know what to say.
Master Lakong shook his head. "It is no matter. It is only a fleshly shell."
Lakong paused, then said, "Benefactor Li, this old monk's power of law is still too weak. When I strike with all my strength, I cannot even control myself."
Li Chengjie fell silent. He knew it wasn't that Master Lakong's power of law was weak, but that his physical body was too weak.
A Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivation level, a decaying body—he simply couldn't withstand the backlash from the power of law.
The fact