Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 3378 Soul Heart

Ning Duanye sighed and continued, "When I was performing the ritual before, I thought there was some room for improvement. Who would have thought that after testing it with this method, the result would be like this? This is really..."

"Does it have anything to do with the time he wakes up?" Tie Wandao asked.

"That's right. I really didn't expect there would be no leeway at all." Ning Duanye replied, "I thought we came back here late enough. I thought that when Shao Zuying fell on the ground between the four candles, he would definitely wake up no matter what. If he could wake up immediately, it would prove that there was still leeway. I could continue to think of ways to measure the situation of that leeway, and then find a way to make Shao Zuying live as long as he could. But now I know that there is no leeway at all, there is no way at all!"

"What kind of leeway do you mean?" Tie Wandao asked, "Please tell me in detail, don't just give me some perfunctory words!"

Ning Duanye said, "That's... probably... how to explain it? The margin I'm talking about is the margin for his life span to be extended. Let's put it this way, when I was performing the ritual before, I roughly understood that Shao Zuying seemed to have less than eleven months to live, and I also learned that he had eleven months left to live, probably from a certain day in the past. However, I had chanted the Jingzhi Mantra before, and chanting the Jingzhi Mantra would affect my ability to use that kind of magic to directly obtain information about his life span within seven days. If his life span still had room to be extended, because I had chanted the Jingzhi Mantra within seven days, the result I measured with that kind of magic would not include the extension. I decided to use another method to determine how long the extension was. After I used that method, if Shao Clan Hero woke up immediately when he landed on the ground surrounded by four candles, I would continue to perform rituals on him to find out when his 'soul heart' actually woke up, and from that I could infer how much longer his life span could be extended than what I had measured before. Who would have thought that he hadn't woken up until now? If he hadn't woken up at this time, it could be concluded that his soul heart hadn't woken up either. If his soul heart hadn't woken up at this time, then that meant that the eleven months I had measured before wouldn't have any room for extension."

Tie Hongyan felt even more depressed after hearing these words. She looked at Wu Xunsheng, hoping that he would wake up soon. Although she knew from Ning Duanye's words that even if Wu Xunsheng woke up immediately, his life span would not be extended, she still hoped that he would wake up as soon as possible.

Tie Wandao asked, "So, when you performed the ritual just now, you have already determined that Shao Zuying can only live for another eleven months from the day you mentioned, but this result does not include the time for extension?"

"Yes, clan leader." Ning Duanye replied, "After all, I had chanted the Shocking Mantra before. The Shocking Mantra would affect my practice, causing the results I measured to not include room for extension."

"So you did what you did later in order to understand the room for extension?" Tie Wandao asked, "Did you think at that time that there was definitely room for extension?"

"Yes." Ning Duanye answered, "I thought that the 'eleven months' I measured did not include room for extension simply because I chanted the shock spell before! But I didn't expect that there is actually no room for extension at all! This is really beyond my expectation!"

(End of this chapter)