"Buzz!"
Immortal Granny's divine soul crumbled to dust. Her blood essence and Great Dao laws surged out of her body, and the Linghao Incarnation refined them into his own flesh, imbuing him with a demonic power.
"Heaven-Mending Technique!"
This was the divine technique the Saint Spirit Lineage had once craved beyond measure. It could make Saint Spirits born prematurely whole, and now it had fallen into the Linghao Incarnation's hands.
Why could the Heaven-Mending Technique make its practitioner whole?
The way of heaven took from excess to replenish deficiency. The way of humanity took from deficiency to serve excess.
This was, in essence, the heart of the Heaven-Mending Technique!
Once Saint Spirits were born, they left the way of heaven and entered the mortal world. They no longer possessed lifespans that easily stretched into millions of years. To mend their deficiencies, Saint Spirits in the mortal world could only follow the way of humanity.
They drew upon living beings to mend their own flaws, using the way of humanity to complete the heaven within themselves. Put simply, this was a secret technique that devoured people.
In truth, the Linghao Incarnation had also been born prematurely and still had deficiencies.
Why?
Because in the Ancient Immortal Era, true Saint Spirits were True Immortals from the moment of birth, immortal from the moment they emerged. Those were the true Sons of Heaven, unlike their present counterparts, who still had to worry about their lifespans.
Thus, the Heaven-Mending Technique still worked wonders when the Linghao Incarnation employed it. After devouring a Supreme Being, he grew stronger again, his emperor qi becoming even denser and terrifying the remaining Supreme Beings.
With the Heaven-Mending Technique, killing others to grow stronger was an utterly ordinary method for him. Moreover, after his improvements, it meshed perfectly with