Heart Demon Tribulation?

Heart Demon Tribulation? Crack...

Somewhere in the unseen, it was as though something had shattered.

Chu Mu looked up and saw a crisscrossing crack abruptly appear amid the endless darkness.

Crack, crack...

Then, the sounds of shattering continued.

That crisscrossing crack spread at astonishing speed, like a shattered mirror. In the blink of an eye, it had extended through every dark corner visible to his naked eye...

The next instant...

The endless darkness shattered with a roar like flowers in a mirror and the moon reflected in water...

Chu Mu froze in astonishment. Before he could even react, darkness fell before his eyes. Before his consciousness blurred, a word surfaced in his mind by instinct.

"Heart demon?"

With the last sliver of his remaining consciousness, he wielded a wisp of Spirit Radiance, then everything completely blurred... and dimmed...

When he opened his eyes again, he was standing atop a lush green hill.

"This is... the Heart Demon Tribulation?"

Chu Mu raised his hands for a look, then glanced around, surprise surfacing on his face.

A blazing sun hung high in the sky, while everywhere else stretched beneath a boundless blue firmament. More than a dozen pine trees of varying sizes grew atop the hill, along with several bluish-gray rocks of uneven height. He could feel a faint breeze brushing his face and smell the light fragrance of grass and trees.

"Hmm?"

The next moment, Chu Mu seemed to sense something. His gaze narrowed as he mobilized a thread of Divine Sense, only to find it confined within his body, unable to pass through it in the slightest.

The cultivation of his mana, even the strength of his physical body, seemed to have been sealed away as well. He could not sense any of it.

Though he still wore a blue