Lin Xuan froze, his heart surging like a tidal wave. He felt that he was about to hear something extraordinary.
He Xiong's voice continued. "So you entered the Divine Firmament Grotto-Heaven ahead of time so that he could continue improving, yet that decision instead led you down the wrong path..."
"Could it... be because of emotions?"
From between He Xiong's words, Lin Xuan caught an extremely crucial piece of information.
He could not help looking at Ye Zhuo.
Ye Zhuo's expression was incomparably complicated. This was not an expression someone walking the Path of Slaughter should have had.
Lin Xuan confirmed his guess and sighed inwardly. "How could the Path of Slaughter be so easy to walk? How could people truly sever all emotion and desire?"
"If they truly did, would they not become walking corpses?"
Ye Zhuo's expression shifted for a long while before he finally waved a hand and crushed the recording stone.
Only then did he sigh. "Alas... indeed. He shared the same circumstances as this old man, and because of that, we cherished one another as kindred spirits. Our emotions resonated."
"But that is a great taboo of the Path of Slaughter. Before this old man discovered those signs, I had already entered the grotto-heaven. I did not even wait for the three-hundred-year opening of the time grotto-heaven, but spent the savings of a lifetime to force my way in..."
"Looking at it now, it was of some use to him, but it only deepened the hardships awaiting him in the future."
He Xiao and He Xiong fell silent, yet both sighed inwardly.
Just as Lin Xuan had thought, how could a person so easily sever all emotion and desire?
Some things were absolutely bound to run contrary to one's own wishes.
The Path of Slaughter