However, before Bei Xian'er's gloating could linger in her heart for even a moment longer, Xiao Hua's fleshly body emerged once more from within the collapsing golden body! Though his body was now covered in wounds, with exposed sinew, flesh, and bone in many places, those injuries had been inflicted earlier by Bei Xian'er's natal conch shell and had not half a copper coin's worth of relation to the Sea God's power!
"Th-this... how is this possible?" Bei Xian'er cried out again. At this point, a trace of understanding finally dawned on her. The human cultivator before her, this human Mahayana cultivator she had been cursing, was absolutely not an ordinary cultivator as she understood one.
Xiao Hua raised his hand and looked at his intact palm, then lowered his head to inspect the various parts of his body. His mind once again recalled the Demigod Physique that Witch Elder Jian Ji of Houtu Village had spoken of back in Million Meng Mountain.
"As the name suggests, a Demigod Physique possesses a body like that of a great god! Other than being unable to possess a godhead, it is no different from a great god in every other respect! Now, it seems that I already possess the embryonic form of a godhead. The golden threads formed from the voices upon the crystal's various facets should, if nothing goes wrong, be exceptionally pure power of faith." Xiao Hua then raised his head to look at the nine-colored radiance, pondering inwardly. *"The witch elder also said that neither a Demigod Physique nor a godhead can be obtained through cultivation. One can only encounter them by relying on the power of heaven and earth and peering into its mysteries. By a fortunate coincidence, this Xiao has obtained both. It could be said that