Five-colored radiance, a stone, and it had fallen from the sky!
Ecstasy made Li Ye tremble all over. Could this be the legendary Five-Colored Stone, the one Goddess Nüwa had used to mend the heavens?!
—He had once heard a theory: mending the heavens could also count as a form of construction. After all, Goddess Nüwa had not only mended the sky; she had also used a tortoise's legs as pillars.
A construction divine art of that caliber.
He took a deep breath and immediately held the five-colored stone in his hand.
It was scorching hot to the touch.
Even his body, nourished by countless streams of vitality and tempered by the bronze water of the Sword Bone Pool, could barely withstand it. He nearly dropped the stone.
"His..."
Yet the Five-Colored Stone forcibly melted into his flesh. When he looked, half of it was still protruding from his finger, but in the blink of an eye, only his fair, slender fingers remained.
"Huh?"
He nearly suspected that this hand was not his own and flexed it.
His fingers were as nimble as ever—except they seemed to have "grown" a tiny bit. Even probing with spiritual power revealed no difference from the rest of his body.
His heart, which had only just calmed somewhat from his excitement, began pounding again. His spiritual power truly could not inspect the Five-Colored Stone's condition.
So he used Jianmu.
He extended Jianmu's branches through his meridians in that direction.
A tiny, almost imperceptible pop sounded, and the Five-Colored Stone was pushed out from his fingertip. His finger returned to its original length.
"Did the Five-Colored Stone really make my finger extend?"
He stared at the stone, still thinking, when he suddenly noticed that the Five-Colored Stone seemed to be trying to merge into the