"A critically injured immortal?"
Yaoli was a little surprised and couldn't help asking, "Master, even if that immortal was on the brink of death, with an immortal's power, how could a few mere Mahayana figures refine all his Immortal Force, even if only a sliver of his consciousness remained?"
"Besides, if those people from Northern Domain Tianjue Hall didn't have methods on the level of the Immortal Dao, how could they refine Immortal Force?"
Ning Wangshu said, "That was because another Mahayana Demon Emperor from the demon race had been with them. That Demon Emperor bore the brunt of the immortal's final counterattack, unleashed with the last trace of his consciousness."
"After that strike, the immortal lost all consciousness. The three Hall Masters of Tianjue Hall used all sorts of vicious, underhanded methods to search the immortal's Remnant Soul and obtain a few Immortal Dao methods."
"Only then were they able to slowly refine the Immortal Force in his Immortal Body..."
Yaoli understood at once and couldn't help sighing. "In that case, that immortal met a truly miserable end. A mighty immortal reduced to such a fate, even suffering this kind of humiliation after his death."
"That's right."
Ning Wangshu nodded, then smiled at Yaoli. "A Li, what about you? How did you reach the Half-Immortal level?"
Yaoli took a deep breath and said slowly, "To be honest, Master, it was sheer luck that let me take this half-step. Back then, I reached the peak of the Mahayana realm, but every attempt to open the Immortal Gate ended in failure."
"Disheartened, I traveled far and wide. Eventually, I came to the Chaotic Star Sea, where a chance encounter led me to discover a Cave Mansion once inhabited by an immortal, before the Immortal Relic Era."
"By good fortune, I not