Wen Ziheng did not even consider it treatment. Qiao Ranran was talented in medicine, but her cultivation had severely limited what she could do. Only after a stumbling climb to the Golden Core Stage had she barely managed to hold back the Blood Gu inside Feng Changdong. Even then, that was only because the Blood Gu had kept his cultivation from advancing.
But to accomplish that without harming Feng Changdong's Spirit Root or cultivation was already remarkable.
What Wen Ziheng did not know was that Qiao Ranran's progress came not only from reaching the Golden Core Stage. She had also been fortunate enough to enter the Langhuan Blessed Land, where she had obtained the Flower-Transposing Acupuncture Technique and the Illusory Sea Heart Sutra.
She had even reversed the Blood Gu inside Feng Changdong through an almost fantastical method. It no longer threatened his cultivation or his life; it could actually help him cultivate.
She had not yet had the chance to tell Wen Ziheng any of this.
Wen Ziheng had already killed Qiao Ranran with his own hands and given her body to the Remnant Soul he had brought out of the God-Demon Battlefield Ruins.
All because her body suited that Remnant Soul, allowing it to provide Wen Ziheng with more Cultivation Methods.
When he struck, Wen Ziheng gave no thought to how the world might change if it lost its "Confounding Star." He did not believe Qiao Ranran could be that important. He even suspected the true Confounding Star might only emerge after the Body Snatching. After all, that Remnant Soul had belonged to the strongest being on the Divine-Demon Battlefield. Even as a Remnant Soul, he had once been an Ancient Dao Comprehender.
Unfortunately, he was wrong.
Even when Pei Ling made himself the Formation Core, activated the