"Brother…" Zi Yan figure immediately appeared beside him and picked him up after exclaiming.
As she felt the cold temperature of Shen Yi's body and no heartbeat, a chill spread through her spine and her heart cooled down.
"Brother, wake up… Please wake up." She muttered, shaking his body as tears started flowing out from her eyes.
"Please, I won't ask you for a pill…" She begged and then hesitated and added,
"Please, I-I won't even ask about my father… I will find a lot of herbs for you… Please don't leave me alone."
As her expression became more and more wrong seeing Shen Yi not responding, just as she was about to burst into tears and loud cries,
A familiar voice sounded beside her, "Ohh, I thought you were staying beside me for your clan and father… Now it seems I was wrong."
"Ahhhh…" Immediately Zi Yan jumped away, scared, and landed on another stone, looking at the direction of the voice.
The next moment her eyes widened, looking at the familiar boy standing in front of her, with lengthy brown hair and pupils. He is possessing a perfect face and figure, taller and more handsome than before.
She immediately raised her finger and pointed at both of them, a fresh and spiritual Shen Yi in front of her and the skeletal Shen Yi lying on the stone. She stuttered with frightened expression as if seeing a ghost, "Y-you, you, you are two... Why?"
"Hahahaha, I am really your brother Shen Yi… I was just teasing you; it's my soul clone."
Shen Yi laughed loudly, looking at her expression, and then explained teasingly,
Zi Yan was startled and then asked confusedly, "Soul Clone?"
She immediately recalled something, and her cheeks puffed in anger and resentment looking at him.
"Brother, you deceived me… Take my punch."
The next moment, she appeared in front of his soul clone and punched him in the stomach. Shen Yi smiled seeing her slow-motion punch collide with his stomach.
Boom!!!
Immediately he flew back, collided with the mountain behind, and debris and stones scattered toward the surroundings. The whole mountain shook because of the tyrannical force.
"Nooo… Stupid Shen Yi, why didn't you dodge?"
Immediately Zi Yan returned to her senses and suddenly felt more grievous looking in the direction of the broken mountain area.
Swish!!!
"Don't worry, it's my soul clone… I can scatter and recondense it as I want in a hundred-meter range."
Shen Yi's soul clone somehow appeared beside her and explained by patting her head,
Zi Yan was startled, and then she sighed in relief; after that, a happy smile appeared on her face, and she hugged his soul clone tightly.
"I knew you wouldn't die."
A smile appeared on Shen Yi's face, and he patted her head and spoke, "How can I die before completing my promises to you?"
After staying silent for a while, Zi Yan backed away, remembering something. She glanced at the unconscious physical body lying on the large stone and asked doubtfully,
"Brother, your physical body? Are you going to abandon it?"
Shen Yi's mouth twitched hearing her words, and then he shook his head and replied, "Only idiots will abandon their physical bodies willingly."
Then he walked toward his physical body and added, "Didn't you notice the change in the dou qi flow in the surrounding ten thousand miles? I have been gathering dou qi for the past whole year. I thought that you would notice it with your treasure hunting talent."
Zi Yan was startled, and then her pupils turned purple; she focused deeply, and as dou qi ran through her pupils' veins, immediately a pattern was revealed in her eyes.
She saw waves of dou qi particles gathering from all around and slowly drifting toward the motionless body lying on the stone. Such a pattern is extremely hidden and blends in with the natural flow; no one will notice it if they don't want to deliberately look for it.
Zi Yan fell speechless looking at the scene, and then she saw the soul clone appear and stand in front of the original body.
Immediately the original body sat up in the same cross-legged position like before as the two boxes containing treasures appeared around him, the lid opening up amidst the curious gaze of Zi Yan.
The next moment the soul clone merged with the original body; he opened the hollowed eyeball that looked extremely scary and then moved his thin branch-like arms, while the joints emitted crackling noises.
Instantly grabbing the two items from the boxes, the first one is a pitch-dark crystal; upon appearing outside the box, it devoured all the surrounding colors.
The second one is the irregular fist-sized black stone, with countless colorful particles on its surface bursting, emitting different colored lightning, and then more particles replacing those disappearing particles.
Shen Yi immediately ran the primordial art, and green lightning flashed on the surface of his physique. His rickety figure slowly freshened up, the bones were nourished, the muscle built up again, the old skin was shed, and new skin recovered. The organs started beating, producing fresh blood and cells, and the heart started pumping it through his veins, regenerating them back to their actual sizes.
At the same time, his dou qi flowed through whole-body meridians and started devouring the star and space lightning from both of these treasures in his arms.
Visible to the naked eye, the figure returned to his original appearance; at the same time, both treasures in his hands dimmed because of the overbearing, devouring effect of primordial art, which is now officially a heaven-rank exercise.
Crack!
As time passed, the void behind Shen Yi cracked in the shape of a single lightning bolt, as if a bolt was cutting through the very essence of space, revealing the flickering stars on the other side of the dark void.
Suddenly the single bolt multiplied into two and spread toward opposite directions like the double reflections in the mirror.
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