These points of light were not true Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, but an extremely pure form of life essence.
This essence really could improve a person's physical condition in a short time and drive out some ordinary illnesses, but the price was...
The depletion of the recipient's own innate potential.
In other words, this so-called baptism merely traded an overdraft of future life potential for brief recovery and renewed vigor.
"And on top of that, every single person who receives the baptism is left with an extremely obscure spiritual mark!"
"The mark is very faint. If I hadn't cultivated Spiritual Power, I never would have noticed it!"
"Do they seem to be using the mark to establish a link with some kind of existence?"
Jiang Fan couldn't quite understand it.
Just as he was about to continue observing, in the blink of an eye, he discovered that Wuchen's gaze had pierced through the crowd and turned toward him.
Their eyes met for an instant. Wuchen quickly looked elsewhere and continued presiding over the baptism ceremony, as if he had merely happened to see an ordinary onlooker just now.
Jiang Fan withdrew his gaze, a faint wariness rising in his heart.
Wuchen's cultivation was at least above the middle stage of the Emperor realm.
With such cultivation, even in a Holy Land, he could become an Inner Sect disciple.
Why would he willingly serve as a front-stage pawn in this little broken cult?
He took a deep breath and decided to wait and see for now.
These people's purpose was unclear, their identities were unclear, and everything was unknown. For the time being, they had not done anything too excessive either.
Whether they had anything to do with the death of the previous Patrol Envoy was still hard to say,