Lin Xian offered a brief explanation. He hadn't drawn blood from the innate sacred body dao embryo. Even if he had wanted to, the Black Emperor would probably have bitten him to death.
Besides, Great Saint Wei Yi had kept an extraordinarily close watch over the child, viewing the innate sacred body dao embryo as Tianxuan's future hope and inviting a Great Saint from Yaochi to protect him.
The two Great Saints had brought out the Western Empress Pagoda to conceal the workings of heaven and traveled deep into the starry sky, allowing the innate sacred body dao embryo to absorb an entire star region's vital essence and strengthen his origin.
He had merely taken the innate sacred body dao embryo's umbilical cord blood and placental blood while everyone else was distracted.
"Studied medicine? No wonder you're so practiced at drawing blood. Turns out you'd done it before-you were a gynecologist!"
Ye Fan saw the light, then muttered, "But Holy Master, why didn't you keep at it? Why abandon medicine for the Dao?"
When they had first met aboard the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin, Lin Xian had introduced himself as a Daoist from Mount Longhu, not a physician.
"Studying medicine couldn't save Earthlings."
Lin Xian spouted nonsense with a perfectly straight face. "This matter was also recorded in Doctor Strange."
Ye Fan rolled his eyes and ignored Holy Master Lin's nonsense, but he didn't probe any further either.
There was surely more to abandoning medicine for immortal cultivation than that.
Judging by Lin Xian's behavior throughout their journey, he seemed to know that the dark turmoil would erupt before long. That was why he had advanced with such careful planning, creating the Heavenly Court's present structure.
*Even if he isn't some ancient monster reborn through nirvana, he must at