When Jin Guan Kai found Jin Guan Xuan beneath a cliff, he was shocked by the latter's appearance.
At this moment, all of Jin Guan Xuan's upper garments were gone. His entire right arm was dripping with blood, as though countless blades had scraped it like fish scales. Flesh hung off in strips, and crimson bones could vaguely be seen beneath.
He looked utterly savage and terrifying.
Even with the Life Creation Art circulating to restore him, an injury in which nearly all the flesh of an arm had been shaved away would require immense effort and spiritual energy to heal.
Though the Blood Clan's Life Creation Art had formidable restorative effects, capable even of growing flesh from white bones, it still depended on the injured person's strength and physical constitution.
If an ordinary person had been injured to Jin Guan Xuan's present extent, recovery would have been easy. After all, the physical quality and meridian strength of ordinary people made restoration—even rejoining—an exceedingly simple matter.
But for a soul master like Jin Guan Xuan, whose strength had already touched the Heaven Soul Realm Late Stage with half a foot, completely recovering through the Life Creation Art was exceedingly difficult. The strength of his arm's meridians exceeded that of an ordinary person's by tens of thousands of times.
Sensing Jin Guan Kai's approach, Jin Guan Xuan slowed the circulation of the Life Creation Art. Although his earlier recovery had stopped the injury in his right arm and regenerated some flesh to cover the bones, his strength had weakened from the fifth breath of the Heaven Soul Realm to the fourth due to the art's circulation.
This weakening was not an ordinary expenditure from cultivation. It was irreversible and had to be cultivated back from scratch.
That was why the Life