The flames roared, and the scene grew more and more like some bizarre, heretical ritual.
If Su Yuan hadn't heard the man being burned shout, "Divine Body Sacrificial Artifact Great Law! Activate!" he would have turned and run without a second thought.
After the man on the cross had burned for a while, an indescribable, profoundly mysterious, intangible radiance descended from the heavens.
The radiance had no shape or substance, yet Su Yuan could sense it clearly.
He watched as it sank into the man's Niwan Palace. Immediately afterward, all the lab assistants rushed over with fire extinguishers and put out the flames.
Thud—
The man on the cross, charred from head to toe, toppled to the floor like a burnt-out log.
As he fell, flakes of charcoal even dropped from his body.
The lab assistants seemed long accustomed to such a bizarre sight.
One of them pried open the charred figure's mouth and stuffed in a healing pill. The others stood to the side and began to discuss what had happened.
"The flames were a little too fierce this time."
"Brother Wei's vital parts got pretty badly scorched. Once he recovers, will it really not affect his length?"
"The Divine Body Sacrificial Artifact Great Law is powerful, sure, but the price is way too steep."
"Brother Wei did it himself this time. Who's up next?"
The charred figure they called Brother Wei was, of course, Wei Yuxiu.
As the assistants talked, new skin and flesh rapidly grew over his body, and he lay naked on the floor.
Although most of Wei Yuxiu's burns had healed, he hadn't a single hair left anywhere on his body.
Unless they actively consumed spiritual power to accelerate hair growth, cultivators' hair grew no faster than an ordinary person's.
Another lab assistant hurried over,