"Wounded? Eh, that actually makes some sense... A battle of this scale will most likely end with both sides severely injured. It truly is a fine opportunity. Don't think this old man didn't know that—I thought of it long ago. I was merely testing you. The facts have proven that your aptitude is passable enough. Keep working hard, young man," Bald Bird said with the pompous air of an elder, utterly shameless.
Chen Fan, however, knew very well that this world possessed no spiritual medicine capable of instantly restoring injuries. Once wounded, one needed time to slowly recover. Something like the Pure Wood Essence on Chen Fan's person—even finding a small piece of it in the Earth Cultivation World would be enough to shake all four directions. Compared with the Heavenly Court, this world truly fell far too short, yet that instead became a rare opportunity for Chen Fan.
With Chen Fan's current cultivation, it would be nearly impossible for him to improve further in a short time. Moreover, if he wanted to ascend Shu Mountain, he needed at least the cultivation of the Golden Core Realm. Yet forming a golden core was a step all cultivators found difficult to take. Looking across the entire Earth Cultivation World, those capable of forming a golden core were few and far between, and every one of them had cultivated for centuries, achieving it only after water wore through stone. No matter how heaven-defying Chen Fan's aptitude was, without an unending supply of heavenly treasures to support him, it would still take him at least ten or twenty years to form a golden core.
But the old woman possessed the Six Paths Jade Disk. As long as Chen Fan remained alive, she would continue tracking the Soul Devouring Banner's whereabouts. If the Ant