"The Beast Taming Sect has Void Soul Crystals? And Lu Ze came out unscathed after absorbing one?"
Beneath his mask, Heart Demon frowned.
As one of the few cultivators in the world who had absorbed a Void Soul Crystal, he knew better than anyone how terrifying the thing was.
Even someone as powerful as him could not sense where his absorption limit lay.
And Void Soul Crystals would entice cultivators to keep refining and absorbing them. Once they crossed that limit, their bodies would burst and they would die. It was perilous in the extreme.
Yet Lu Ze had survived?
"The Heavenly Dao probably intervened behind the scenes again..."
Heart Demon spoke in a low voice.
That was the only answer he could think of.
Another plan had fallen through, but Heart Demon was not too disheartened.
Failing to kill Lu Ze was certainly a shame, but with Lu Ze's root bone aptitude, the benefits he could gain from a Void Soul Crystal were practically negligible.
He was merely starting from zero.
What intrigued Heart Demon was something else entirely.
"Since he survived, he should naturally know that he's reached his limit for absorbing Void Soul Crystals..."
Heart Demon rubbed his chin and muttered to himself.
"Then why is he still going to such lengths to earn Void Soul Crystals from the Beast Taming Sect?"
"Hah, isn't it obvious? He must be afraid that once we elders absorb Void Soul Crystals, we'll surpass him on the Path of Illusion!"
White Crane snorted and spoke through gritted teeth.
"That day, I was just about to get a Void Soul Crystal from the Beast Taming Sect, and that brat chose that critical moment to interfere... how could it be anything but deliberate?"
"Perhaps."
Heart Demon rubbed his temples, suppressing the unease deep