Shrek Academy, Infirmary.
A basin of bloody water had just been carried out when Liu Erlong caught the Healing Soul Master at the door and asked anxiously, "How is he? Can you save him?"
"His life is out of danger."
The healer wiped the sweat from his forehead and caught his breath.
"Someone stopped his bleeding before he was brought here. Otherwise, the journey alone would have taken a terrible toll on him. His injuries are stable for now, but he needs plenty of rest. He mustn't use soul power again."
Flender finally felt some of the tension leave his chest.
Yu Xiaogang, however, pointed at the bundle of broken Spider Spears on the table and hurriedly asked, "What about these? Can his external soul bone recover?"
The Healing Soul Master shook his head and said:
"I tried just now. The wounds on his back can heal, but those broken bones have lost their original vitality. The power connected to them inside his body has been destroyed, too. I can't treat an injury like this."
Yu Xiaogang's hand froze in midair.
Tang San suddenly stirred on the bed.
His eyes were open, his gaze fixed on the bundle of remains, and his cracked lips trembled faintly. In his mind, those sharp cracks rang out again, one after another.
Gu Ling had grabbed his Eight Spider Lances and wrenched them outward one by one. His desperate struggles had earned him nothing but even more agonizing pain.
Then those two surges of cold and heat had alternately flooded his shoulders and back, leaving him no chance even to retract his soul bone!
"Xiao San, are you feeling any better?" Yu Xiaogang walked to the bedside, but the moment he reached out, Tang San jerked his shoulders back.
"Don't touch me!"
Tang San's