"Alas!"
Faced with the Fifth Elder's question, Jiang Qiankun's father did not answer. He merely let out a soft sigh.
"Still no good?" The Fifth Elder frowned slightly. "Even with Third Brother's Demon Slaying Qi and the power of pure bloodline, you still can't heal Kun'er?"
The Third Brother the Fifth Elder spoke of was Jiang Qiankun's grandfather, the Demon Slaying Clan's Third Elder.
After becoming Elders, unless they were direct blood relatives, they addressed one another as brothers.
"No!" Jiang Qiankun's father shook his head. "Kun'er has only cultivated a little over five hundred Great Dao Marks. He is still some distance from the realm required to unleash the Demon Slaying Slash. The aftereffects are simply too severe!"
In truth, whether it was Jiang Qiankun's father, the Fifth Elder, or the other higher-ups of the Jiang family, upon learning that Jiang Qiankun had been so gravely injured by the backlash from using the Demon Slaying Slash, all of them had been deeply shocked.
What shocked them was not that Jiang Qiankun had forcibly used the Demon Slaying Slash and suffered such severe aftereffects.
What shocked them was that Jiang Qiankun had actually survived.
Although Jiang Qiankun's talent and bloodline were both exceptional, the problem was that the Jiang family's Demon Slaying Slash was one of the three great profound meanings of the Demon Slaying Tome.
Not only was it immensely powerful, but more importantly, each of those three great profound meanings was more tyrannical than the last.
Even those capable of using the Demon Slaying Slash would still suffer some backlash.
However, if one's realm was high enough, such backlash would not cause much harm.
But Jiang Qiankun did not possess such a realm!
Even among the Jiang family's most outstanding geniuses with the strongest bloodlines, one needed at