Damage to flesh and bone was nothing to a Fourth-Order Body Refining cultivator like Li Chang'an.
His physical strength and ability to recover far surpassed those of an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator.
After his right arm was severed, flesh writhed at the wound as though a new limb were about to grow.
This confirmed Li Chang'an's suspicions.
His ability to recover had indeed grown stronger.
In the past, new flesh could never have grown so quickly.
Moreover,
The vitality in his right arm had not dissipated. It remained firmly locked within its flesh.
Li Chang'an could not help wondering whether, if he tossed the arm aside somewhere and waited a few hundred thousand years, it might develop a mind of its own.
"Strange. This was only the first awakening, yet it brought such a dramatic change."
He was puzzled. He picked up his right arm and reattached it.
According to the Moon Gazing Blood Burning Technique, the first awakening brought no great improvement. It merely allowed a mortal to become a cultivator.
"What this Cultivation Method describes fits the human cultivators of the Moon Gazing Secret Realm, but not me."
"The benefits I gained from my first awakening far exceed theirs."
"Then the ancestor of this special bloodline in my body was far stronger than that Moon God of the Moon Gazing Secret Realm—"
After some thought, Li Chang'an had more or less worked it out.
The Bloodline Cultivation Path was unusual.
The stronger the being at a bloodline's source, the higher the path's ceiling, and the greater the benefits its descendants gained with each awakening.
He estimated that the ancestor behind this bloodline must have surpassed Tier 6.
Tier 7, or even Tier 8, was possible.
"Was there really such a powerful being among my ancestors?"
Li Chang'an thought