"Ah, the rumors were right. After Master passed away in meditation, his body immediately collapsed into dust. The monks in the temple all saw it with their own eyes. Everyone said Master had suffered a backlash while cultivating the Divine Eye of Knowing Others. Only later did we learn that what Master had been cultivating was no longer the Divine Eye of Knowing Others, but Heart Demon Induction."
After Xiao Se finished speaking, Wuchan let out a soft sigh and continued describing his master's circumstances. Grandmaster Wangyou had not cultivated the Divine Eye of Knowing Others, but Heart Demon Induction. Though the Divine Eye of Knowing Others and Heart Demon Induction were somewhat alike, they could not be mentioned in the same breath. The former was a genuine Buddhist divine art, while the latter was a forbidden technique. To cultivate that forbidden technique, one first had to fall into demonhood.
"Have they arrived?" As the group quietly listened to Wuchan explain Heart Demon Induction, Shen Fei could not help looking to the right. Someone was sprinting along the mountain wall there. It was the White-Haired Immortal.
"Buddha, demon—whatever. In the end, Grandmaster Wangyou just suffered a cultivation backlash, right?" Sikong Qianluo said. She had understood none of Wuchan's explanation, so she voiced her own interpretation.
"It wasn't a cultivation backlash. He saw too many heart demons, so he went mad," Xiao Se said slowly.
"He truly was an enlightened monk. But unfortunately, the human heart is unfathomable." Shen Fei beside them could not help sighing softly as well.
Without question, Grandmaster Wangyou had been a truly enlightened monk. Yet he had clearly underestimated the darkness of the human heart. As the saying went, you could know a person's face but not their heart. There were far too many people who