The black lotus platform floated beneath the tip of the Heart Sword, holding it aloft.
Chu Huai Xu carefully observed the black lotus platform through his inner vision.
It was strange. Although it was clearly something born within his Sea of Consciousness, it possessed a jade-like texture.
It looked as though it had been carved entirely from black jade, gleaming with the luster of jade.
Chu Huai Xu directly threw an Information Scan at it, but what appeared was another string of question marks.
This meant that his authority was still insufficient—or that it was itself an unknown existence.
At that moment, Dead Fox suddenly recalled something.
He remembered that after coming into contact with members of the Black Moon Cult, he had triggered a hidden quest related to the Nascent Soul Fruit Status.
The quest was called Lost Fruition.
Chu Huai Xu opened his quest interface and took a look, only to find that the quest still showed no reaction.
Did that mean the power Zhong Ming had bestowed upon him had nothing to do with the Lost Fruition?
This left Chu Huai Xu rather puzzled.
Previously, the Black Moon Cult members had sensed traces of the fruition status on him.
That had happened right around the time he made a breakthrough in treating Zhong Ming.
On top of that, there were Zhong Ming's many experiences within the Fifth Layer of the Origin Spirit Realm, the unsolved mysteries that had occurred there, and Ming Xuanji spying on the secrets of Heaven and refusing to let him cure Zhong Ming.
Taken together, all of this had made Chu Huai Xu suspect him. He had wondered whether the fruition status was on Zhong Ming.
After all, the disciples of Junzi Temple from that generation had all been monstrous geniuses.
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