Follow Your Heart Pavilion looked quite large from the outside, but once he stepped inside, the space was far bigger than expected. Row upon row of bookshelves stood within, no fewer than fifty or sixty in total.
The shelves held jade slips of every kind, each covered by a layer of restrictive light.
Seeing so many texts within Follow Your Heart Pavilion, Yuan Ming's confidence in finding a suitable cultivation art here increased by several degrees. He was just about to walk over.
The void hummed, and a streak of white light appeared out of nowhere, blocking his path.
Yuan Ming immediately stopped.
"Fellow Daoist need not worry. This is our pavilion's Heart-Questioning Restriction. Everyone entering Follow Your Heart Pavilion must pass through it, to prevent Demonic Cultivators from sneaking in." An elderly man wearing a scholar's headcloth and white robes emerged from behind the bookshelves. Holding a bamboo scroll, he spoke without even raising his head.
He looked like an ordinary old scholar, yet his aura was immense. He was unmistakably a Void Return cultivator as well.
"So that is how it is. Thank you for the guidance, Fellow Daoist." Yuan Ming said, staring at the white light as his heart quietly beat a drum.
He truly carried devilish qi within his body. If it were detected, things would go badly.
Yet the old man in white was watching him. Backing down now would only make him more suspicious.
Yuan Ming secretly compressed the devilish qi in his body into one place as much as possible, then wrapped it in the roots of the Undying Tree before gritting his teeth and stepping into the white light.
The white light rippled gently. Even after Yuan Ming passed through its range, nothing unusual occurred.
Only then did Yuan Ming lower his