Although the Spring Return Immortal Art's healing effect on cultivators at the tenth level of the Void Refinement Realm was greatly diminished, it was more than sufficient for simple broken bones and flesh wounds.
In no more than a few breaths, Gu Nanguan's arm, which had hung limp and useless, was completely healed.
He gently raised his arm and rotated his wrist. His muscles and bones moved freely, without the slightest stiffness or pain; every trace of injury had vanished. He was startled and delighted, his eyes filled with shock.
"Benefactor, what miraculous healing divine ability is this?"
Gu Nanguan solemnly bowed, his heart full of bewilderment and amazement.
He had cultivated for a thousand years, yet he had never seen a healing divine ability swifter even than the Su Clan's Azure Spirit Body-Healing Art.
"This is the Spring Return Immortal Art, a unique secret technique I acquired by chance and merely improved a little."
Chen Changming spoke blandly, his words vague and equivocal, offering no details about the art's origins.
He had already developed a favorable impression of the Ancient Village's people, who kept apart from worldly strife and were simple and kindhearted. That was why he had not hesitated to expend precious Sword Talismans to save them with all his strength, and had further spent his mana to heal Gu Nanguan's wounds.
At the same time, a sliver of expectation lay hidden in his heart.
He had risked himself and used up two priceless Sword Talismans to save the entire Ancient Village. Such a heaven-high, life-saving debt ought to be enough to make Gu Nanguan set aside the ancestral prohibition and give him the complete inheritance of the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art.
He silently thought, *If such a weighty debt of salvation still cannot buy a crippled cultivation