Time revolved, each slash faster than the last, as though severing the River of Time and standing apart from heaven and earth. Lin Xian concentrated fully, like a sculptor carving his most perfect work of art.
Ye Fan sat cross-legged within the golden forbidden sea, his eyes half closed, his thick black hair loose, and fine sweat covering his forehead. His Indestructible Golden Body had once been translucent as jade, flowing with immortal radiance and free of flaws. Now it was riddled with wounds, subjected to blades and swords, his skin turning bronze.
Gold and crimson sacred blood soaked his white robes. The sight was brutally gruesome; stark white bones were almost visible through his chest.
"A Great Accomplished Saint Physique shouldn't be like this. Recultivate the Secret Realm Method. Again!"
Lin Xian swung his blade, severing a damaged section of bone and grinding it into powder. The Ancestor's golden sea boiled, releasing the power of crimson radiance to reshape the flesh under the Time Blade's control.
Ye Fan said nothing, merely knitting his brows. He endured this blessing of cultivation countless times each day. In Holy Master Lin's words, it was a tremendous stroke of fortune that other Quasi-Emperors would never encounter.
"The years rush by; the mortal world tempers the heart. All are rosy skeletons."
Murmuring softly, Lin Xian swung the Heavenly Blade three thousand six hundred times, slicing flesh without the slightest mistake. Only someone who shared the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body could cut with such precision, adding not a fraction and damaging not a hair.
He then used the Killing Art of the Assassin Divine Dynasty, the Heavenly Court, to strip away skin and extract tendons. The golden skin glittered, fit to be refined into a supreme artifact, and Lin Xian branded it with the bronze