True Venerable Guo Yi grew anxious at those words. "Fellow Daoist Jiu Si, can he be saved?"
True Venerable Tuo Tuo pondered for a moment before speaking. "I can't say for sure. It seems part of his divine soul has been annihilated, not merely damaged... Damage can be repaired, but annihilation means it suffered destruction on the level of laws. The Heavenly Dao does not permit restoration."
"The Heavenly Dao does not permit it... but isn't there still the One That Escapes?" Xuanyuan Buqi was curious as well. "Even remnant souls can possess another body. This is the first time I've heard of a divine soul being annihilated."
"A remnant soul can possess another body as early as the Golden Core realm. After that, it merely needs to grow," True Venerable Tuo Tuo answered casually. Then he chose his words more carefully. "To regenerate after annihilation would be defying the heavens. At the very least... one would need to be at the Tribulation Transcendence Stage."
Xuanyuan Buqi glanced thoughtfully at Feng Jun but said nothing more.
However, True Venerable Jiu Si had thought of it as well. He asked in a deep voice, "Little Friend Feng, what exactly did you do to that Soul-Sundering Nail?"
Feng Jun gave him an odd look. "I did nothing. Believe it or not, that's up to you."
"The Soul-Sundering Nail!" True Venerable Jiu Si's brows shot up, and his eyes brightened. "If it was that, then I may know the reason... Did Fellow Daoist Qian Xi use the Soul-Sundering Nail?"
"Yes." True Venerable Guo Yi nodded. There was no point concealing anything now. "Once the Soul-Sundering Nail was launched, it never returned... and he ended up like this."
"He brought it upon himself!" Luo Shiqi sneered. He had never been broad-minded, and he remembered