Jiang Yingying began reciting the Long-Eared Prayer Sutra, sacrificing the essence of her body, energy, and spirit in exchange for divine power. She stopped only once her divine power had reached the standard of a senior disciple.
Just as she had said before, she was the weakest of the three. Should they encounter powerful false gods or false god disciples in the future, she had no absolute confidence that she could escape unscathed. Rather than begrudge the loss of her body, energy, and spirit and end up perishing, she might as well trade them for more divine power to protect herself... After all, death in the Divine Path world meant the end of everything. If she could survive and leave with a great haul of godslaying merit, she could exchange it with Guan Ling for plenty of spiritual materials and resources. Perhaps she might even use it to step into the Divine Bridge Realm. By then, her regressed cultivation and depleted lifespan could both be restored.
Shen Mo greatly approved of her thinking, so he did not stop her from sacrificing herself. Judging by the essence of body, energy, and spirit she had lost, she would likely fall by one minor realm after returning to the Immortal Realm. However, her abundant divine power could activate stronger divine patterns, greatly increasing their chances of leaving this world alive.
After Chen Mengze and Jiang Yingying completed the offering ritual, Shen Mo did not immediately take them out of the divine domain. Instead, he spent three days reworking their robes, armor, and weapons, repeatedly washing them with vast amounts of divine power and engraving multiple divine patterns with different effects upon them.
Only then did he reopen the divine domain, and the three returned to the wooden cabin one after another.
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