Death... and me

'Life Style, Third Form, Purification!'

Light and Dark Element immediately entered Rafatia's body before spreading to the parts where she was turning into a salt statue. However, Rean quickly noticed that his Purification skill had little effect on the transformed parts. "This isn't good."

Roan noticed the problem. "It's because this isn't some poison that's entering her body. It's something that's transforming her from the inside out. It makes sense that your Purification skill is slow."

Rean agreed with Roan after hearing that. "That's exactly the issue."

"T-Then, can't you save her, Rean?" Falangia obviously grew even more worried.

Rean then explained, "The issue is now that Rafatia's body is beginning to transform, the speed I can heal her is slower than the transformation." Then again, Rean wasn't worried. He quickly took his Black Star from his spatial ring before pointing at Rafatia. "Well, Plan B."

*swish, swish, swish, swish...*

*Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!*

Even though Rafatia was absent-minded, it didn't mean she didn't feel pain. Rean used his Black Star to literally chop off all the parts that were transforming into the salt statue. Well, that only made the pain increase. After all, the moment Rean cut off all the affected parts of Rafatia's body, she came back to herself. One could already imagine how much of a sorry state she looked.

Falangia almost passed out after that. The moment Rean did the first slash, she tried to intervene. However, Roan held her back with his Divine Soul Power, not letting her move nor letting her talk. All she could do was let her tears fall from her face as Rean cut Rafatia everywhere.

"Phew... it's over," said Rean as he looked at the girl who fainted due to the intense pain. Though, Rean could now work on her. With that, he took one of Roan's medicinal pills and forced it down Rafatia's throat. Following that, he began the healing.

'Life Style, Second Form, Instant Recovery!'

As mentioned in the past, Rean's Instant Recovery had improved a lot since the time he first used it. It could even regrow limbs as long as the body had enough nutrients for it. And that's where Roan's pill helped. Instant Recovery grew the slashed parts while Roan's pill provided the nutrients for it to happen.

Rafatia was only a cultivator at the Peak Stage of Foundation Establishment. With the difference in power between her and Rean, the rest of the work was very easy. Everything regrew in a matter of minutes. By the time Rean was over, Rafatia seemed to have never received a single injury in her life. Well, that's if one ignored the cut clothes and the blood everywhere.

With that, Roan let Falangia go, who quickly jumped at Rafatia and hugged the girl. "What have you done?!"

Rean then used his Divine Soul Power to get rid of all the blood on Rafatia's body. Only then did Falangia see that Rafatia looked just fine. Following that, Rean smiled and said, "Don't worry. Other than this method being somewhat gruesome, it's at least effective. When Rafatia wakes up, just tell her that what happened was a nightmare or something like that. The important thing was that I was able to get rid of the salt statue effect."

Falangia's tears still fell down, but this time out of happiness after knowing that Rafatia was fine. "Thank you."

Rean nodded but didn't look at Falangia and Rafatia. Instead, he used his Divine Soul Power to grab the cut parts of Rafatia's body, the ones that were transforming into salt pieces. "Look at this. The transformation stopped."

Roan got close while still keeping that bubble that separated the water from him and Luan. "Weird. I thought the part you cut would transform completely. How come they stopped as soon as you cut them out?"

Rean pondered in silence for a bit before saying, "I can think about three options. One, it needs blood flow over the area for the transformation to continue. Two, it needs life force for it to transform. Or three, it needs the host's Divine Energy to continue the transformation."

Roan shrugged his shoulders in response. "Maybe it needs all three."

As the twins discussed the issue, Falangia finally calmed down a little. However, something began to irritate her. "Can you two not talk about it while holding the cut parts of my daughter's body?"

Rean then looked at those pieces that were half bloodied and half transformed. "Oh, my bad, my bad." Rean then summoned a ball of fire that burnt everything to nothingness. "I already analyzed everything I needed anyway."

Falangia couldn't help but say after that, "You two are weird."

Rean then looked at Roan and used their Soul Connection to talk. 'The problem is the Dimensional Realm. It decided that the situation was too dangerous for us to access it. I just don't know if it's because of these tiny specs of white powder or if there's something more dangerous about to happen.'

Roan shook his head, saying, 'I don't know either. Fortunately, we keep the Rank One and Two Divine Stones in our spatial rings. Only the Rank Three ones are in the Dimensional Realm. We don't need to worry about running out of Divine Soul Energy even if we keep using it to keep the water away from us.'

Rean also added, 'Well, we don't even need Divine Stones to keep this bubble running permanently. It uses very little Divine Energy, so we can recover much more than we use just by absorbing the Divine Energy in the environment.'

However, Roan shook his head. 'This is just the start, according to that aquatic demon beast. Perhaps the specs of white powder will increase from now on. Haven't you noticed? These things are also able to pass through walls, not only the formation. I can't even tell if they're some kind of energy or element. At the very least, they definitely aren't solid.'

Rean nodded. 'That explains why going underground wouldn't help either. Perhaps the concentration there is even higher.'

In the end, the twins reached the same conclusion. 'The problem now is how we can leave this place or if we can even do that.'