Three Failures, the Heart That Sought the Dao

While Wei Tu and Venerable Han Yue each attended to their own affairs.

Half a year later.

Of the four attempting to break through to Spirit Transformation within the blood sacrifice grand formation, the first runner-up finally appeared.

The person came as quite a surprise to everyone present.

It was Five Scatter Daoist, the one Wei Tu and Venerable Han Yue considered, aside from Lüqiu Qingfeng, the second most promising candidate for Spirit Transformation.

Yet he had become the earliest to be eliminated this time.

"I was careless..."

Seated cross-legged atop a black jade pillar, Five Scatter Daoist slowly opened his eyes, his face pale. Looking at Venerable Han Yue, who had rescued him in time and severed the spiritual power in his dantian, shame immediately surfaced in his eyes.

After all, this opportunity had not come easily.

Though he had the merit of luring Ghost Granny into a trap, there were no shortage of quasi-Spirit Transformation cultivators beneath Venerable Han Yue who wished to vie for this dangerous undertaking.

Still, there was one fortunate thing.

During this attempt at Spirit Transformation, Wei Tu and Venerable Han Yue, two great Spirit Transformation cultivators, had stood guard beside him and suppressed the turbulent spiritual power within him. He had not died during his breakthrough and had managed to claw back his life.

"My failure to break through this time was because my state of mind was impure, giving rise to a heart demon..."

After Venerable Han Yue brought Five Scatter Daoist out of the blood sacrifice grand formation, he sighed and revealed the reason for his failure.

A heart demon was not one of the tribulations on the path to Spirit Transformation. It had merely arisen from his own carelessness, the product of stray delusions magnified within his mind.

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