"Ah!"
Faced with the Fifth Elder's question, Jiang Qiankun's Father didn't answer. He only let out a soft sigh.
"Still no good?" The Fifth Elder's brows drew together slightly. "Even with Third Brother's Demon Slaying Qi and pure bloodline power, you still can't heal Kun'er?"
The Third Brother the Fifth Elder spoke of was Jiang Qiankun's Maternal Grandfather, the Third Elder of the Demon Slaying Clan.
After becoming an elder, unless they were direct blood relatives, they addressed each other as brothers.
"No!" Jiang Qiankun's Father shook his head. "Kun'er has only cultivated a little over five hundred Great Dao Marks. He's still some distance from being able to use the Demon Slaying Slash. The backlash is far too severe!"
In truth, when Jiang Qiankun's Father, the Fifth Elder, and the other high-ranking members of the Jiang family learned that Jiang Qiankun had suffered such grave injuries from the backlash of using the Demon Slaying Slash, they were all deeply shocked.
They weren't shocked that Jiang Qiankun had suffered such severe consequences from forcing the Demon Slaying Slash. They were shocked that he had survived at all.
Jiang Qiankun's talent and bloodline were both exceptional, but the Jiang family's Demon Slaying Slash was one of the three great esoteric arts in the Demon Slaying Tome.
Not only was its power immense, but most importantly, each of the three great esoteric arts was more domineering than the last.
Even those capable of using the Demon Slaying Slash would still suffer some backlash.
However, with a sufficiently high cultivation level, that backlash wasn't too harmful.
But Jiang Qiankun didn't have that kind of cultivation level!
In the Jiang family, even the most outstanding geniuses with the strongest bloodlines couldn't use the Demon Slaying Slash without suffering severe backlash until they had cultivated