Lin Taichu raised his hand, Soul Power gathering at his fingertips. Feeling the pure Soul Power within his body, he secretly rejoiced. Thank goodness he had not kept drinking the Spirit Turbid Liquid. Otherwise, if he had once been tainted by the Spirit Devouring Gu, the consequences would have been unthinkable.
Although the Spirit Devouring Gu could rapidly increase strength, it was certain to affect a cultivator's Dao heart, and might even cause him to suffer backlash from the Gu Worm and be reduced to its puppet.
He rose and walked out of the Spirit Gathering Pavilion, looking toward the small courtyard. The black-robed demon was still nurturing the Spirit Devouring Gu inside the stone house, while inside the Spirit Gathering Pavilion, Cultivators were still drinking Spirit Turbid Liquid, utterly unaware that they were indirectly nourishing Gu Worms.
Lin Taichu did not immediately go to the small courtyard to expose the truth. His current top priority was to complete Chaotian Gate's second trial.
But he knew clearly in his heart that this second trial might also have some connection to the Spirit Devouring Gu. Chaotian Gate's trials were never simple contests of strength, but comprehensive tests of a cultivator's temperament and insight.
He turned and walked toward the curtain of light, thinking constantly along the way.
The second trial was to cultivate beneath the curtain of light, testing endurance and resilience. Yet even after he had fought with all his might, he still could not complete it. Perhaps the problem did not lie in how hard he cultivated, but in the fact that he had not found the core of the trial.
The Cultivators within Chaotian Gate used the Spirit Devouring Gu to rapidly increase their strength. It seemed like they had taken a shortcut, but they had also paid