Pan Long rarely used the divine ability Infinite Light and Life, Thousand-Petal Lotus.
He had healing spells at his disposal and had no need to use a divine ability that consumed Merit.
His Merit ran deep, but why waste it for no reason?
It was like people who thought their hair was too long when they were young and kept getting buzz cuts or even shaving their heads. Only when they reached middle age, with so little hair left they could count the strands, did they realize how wasteful they had been twenty years earlier...
Besides, Infinite Light and Life, Thousand-Petal Lotus was already on the Imperial Court's records.
Back when the Demon Gods of Yun Province besieged Bi Lingkong, Pan Long had used it to heal her and help her turn defeat into victory.
At the time, probably every Monster and immortal in Yun Province had been watching in secret.
Pan Long knew how dangerous that was. From then on, he had almost never used his "nameless swordsman A-Fei" disguise again.
Later, when the Hundred Schools of Thought ambushed Di Cangqiong, Pan Long used the ability once more. He drove the lingering effects of Di Cangqiong's Demonic Art from Hua Ji, the Yin-Yang School's "Many-Treasure Child," and the others, and shaved their heads while he was at it, turning them all into gleaming bald heads.
Both the Hundred Schools of Thought and the Divine Mechanism Bureau had witnessed that scene. The Imperial Court probably knew about it too.
The role of "a lay Buddhist disciple with excellent hard-body skills" had likely been linked to "swordsman A-Fei."
In other words, that disguise was basically unusable too.
Each use of this divine ability cost him roughly one disguise.
Losing a disguise was no great matter. He had made progress in Follow