This sort of mishap should have happened long ago. He knew perfectly well that surgery could never succeed one hundred percent of the time. This was an industry of probabilities; after too many successes, a few probabilistic failures were bound to come along.
Barto had merely triggered it by chance.
That he had only made a mistake now meant he should count himself lucky for having maintained such perfect form until just then.
The situation was not too bad yet. The Void Heart had only just begun to atrophy, and his cut had not been deep. With his ability, he could patch up the breach.
Barto was howling, Gelong was asking questions, but Li Ziran shut all those sounds out completely. What he needed now was focus.
He concentrated on the incision he had just made. It had been cut along the slope of the Soul Continent, and the structure of the Void Heart happened to lie along that slope.
The only problem now was that he did not know the size of the Void Heart. Whether it was the Void Heart itself or the area where it connected to the Continental Core, none of it could be seen. He could only stimulate the Continental Core and judge its rough structure through the Core's reactions.
That meant he needed to patiently probe inside Jiawen's body.
Sizzle!
A blue electric arc flashed out, and the entire Soul Continent suddenly trembled, as though it had broken out in a cold shiver. Yet Jiawen did not blame him. On the contrary, his attention was even more fixed upon the Starry Sky Chains. It seemed he actually preferred Li Ziran making mistakes, as that gave him more time to capture the details within the Starry Sky Chains.
Li Ziran laughed inwardly. He had never