Hearing Lin Mu's words, Blueback nodded. "My friend wanted to create a new path. Not formations placed outside the body, but formations that became the body."
Meng Bai stared wide eyed. "So you are… walking around as a formation?"
Blueback laughed. "That is one way to put it."
Lin Mu traced a line in the air above one of the glowing patterns. "These channels guide immortal essence, but also reinforce flesh, nerves, and marrow. And they link directly with your apertures."
"Yes," Blueback said. "He combined it with the Three Apertures Invoking Technique."
Lin Mu nodded slowly. "You are using the totemic art as a substitute for the final stage. Instead of closing the apertures, you circulate everything through the array and into your body."
Blueback looked surprised. "You saw that?"
Lin Mu smiled faintly. "It is clever. It avoids the greatest danger of the technique."
Daoist Chu frowned. "But it also traps you."
