The moment she sank into deep sleep, the hearts of every Azure Heaven Sword Domain disciple present leaped into their throats, their worry plain for all to see.
"Brother, she'll be alright, won't she?" Zi Ying edged closer and asked tentatively.
Of course I knew what this little girl was thinking. She was afraid I would refuse to save her.
I shook my head with a sigh. "You silly girl, do you really think your brother is so arrogantly blind that I'd stand by and watch someone die?"
Zi Ying stuck out her tongue, but she was visibly relieved.
As I slowly descended, Yu Ningsui's body began to change under the reversal of the Life Force Law and Time Law.
First, the fine cracks covering her skin began to draw together, like a parched riverbed being flooded anew. The edges of her wounds first turned pale, then slowly closed, until not even scars remained.
Then came her meridians. The meridian walls shattered by the backlash from the Hundred Million Sword Tower began reconnecting under the pull of the Life Force Law. New channels grew from the broken ends, budding like tree branches and weaving themselves back into a network thread by thread.
This process was far slower and far more painful than repairing flesh. Even unconscious, Yu Ningsui's brows remained tightly furrowed, and her fingers unconsciously clenched the front of my robe.
"Is this reconstruction? Or..."
"The realm of the Supreme Sealbearer... seems not to have fallen?"
"What mighty power. Her Dao patterns were clearly collapsing, yet they stopped."
"This is no ordinary rebirth."
The murmurs never ceased. Like the changes in Yu Ningsui's body, the most obvious were her hair and brows, which had changed from transparent back to jet-black.
By the time I landed, she had already opened