Chapter 543: Seed

The morning light was faint.

Lu Wushuang carefully supported Li Miao, stepping on the blood-covered ground, and walked toward the foot of the mountain. When they reached the mountainside, Li Miao suddenly coughed a few times, causing Lu Wushuang to frown with worry.

"Master... are you okay?"

Li Miao looked exhausted, but not the bored laziness of his usual self, but truly, from his complexion, movements, and even breathing, revealing weakness from the inside out.

"*Cough, cough. *"

He coughed a few more times, raised his hand to pull open the damaged clothes on his chest, revealing the wound that pierced through his chest. The battle with Bodhidharma's remnant corpse had ended for less than half an hour, and the wound no longer bled, but it showed no signs of healing.

"I'm fine."

Li Miao said with a smile.

"Half my heart is shattered, two pounds of lung lobes were scraped off, fortunately, it didn't hurt my spine. I'm temporarily simulating internal organs with *Qi*, so it doesn't affect walking."

"Ah!"

Lu Wushuang let out a low cry.

"Can this be called fine?"

The smile on Li Miao's face did not diminish at all.

"Took a 'Finger of Non-Phase' from Venerable Bodhidharma and didn't die; how can that not be called fine?"

Lu Wushuang choked.

Ah, yes.

That's the logic; being able to take a move from Venerable Bodhidharma and not die is indeed enough to brag about. But the matter is the matter, and the injury is indeed real.

Full *Qi* and spirit, for someone of Li Miao's realm, even being unable to hide his fatigue meant he had already injured his foundation. Not to mention the wound that had never healed.

Seeing Lu Wushuang pursing her lips and not speaking, Li Miao was also amused.

Fighting Venerable Bodhidharma across a thousand years fulfilled half of his wish, which in itself made his heart surge. Now that there was nothing to do, he naturally couldn't help but want to say a few pretentious words.

"Venerable Bodhidharma's realm is likely not just Six-Path Unified; there is still a path to walk above Heaven-Man, and Six-Path Unified is not the end."

Li Miao seemed happy and sighing.

"Actually, I had guessed it before. I am already half-way to Five-Path Unified, but I am just adding strength and *Qi* bit by bit, without seeing any feeling of a bottleneck. I can already infer the power of Six-Path Unified; it's just a stronger and faster Heaven-Man."

"The peak of martial arts shouldn't be so boring."

Seeing Li Miao in the mood to talk, Lu Wushuang naturally wouldn't dampen his spirits, suppressed the worry in her heart, and followed Li Miao's words.

"But he ended up like this."

Li Miao nodded.

"Yes, it makes one sigh."

"But he didn't lose."

Li Miao raised his hand and pointed to the wound on his chest. Lu Wushuang took a look; the flesh and blood inside the wound were wriggling, transparent protective *Qi* and the pulsating incomplete internal organs were spliced together, rising and falling with Li Miao's breathing, clearly visible.

"I won, but he didn't lose to me."

Li Miao sighed.

"He went easy on me."

"He could have taken me down with him, but he held back two points of strength and didn't completely destroy my heart."

Lu Wushuang frowned.

She sensed a hint of oddity in Li Miao's words.

"Master... Venerable Bodhidharma is already dead, how could he 'go easy'?"

"Because of his Xuanlan."

Li Miao said.

"The Xuanlan cultivation method has spread throughout the *Jianghu*, and you should also have some understanding of it. The wonders of the Xuanlan realm vary from person to person, and even if they connect to the same path of Life Cultivation, there will be differences."

"Venerable Bodhidharma's Xuanlan, I think it should be called 【Flawless】, connecting with Vajra, the flawless golden body obtained by pouring nature into the flesh. Before he died, he poured a part of his nature into his own corpse, so... *cough, cough*."

Li Miao coughed again.

Lu Wushuang took over his words.

"So... after the last move was finished just now, the one who appeared behind us but didn't make a move was not Bodhidharma's corpse, but Venerable Bodhidharma himself!?"

Li Miao spat out a mouthful of stagnant blood and smiled. ===== CHAPTER 544 =====