Geniuses and Ordinary People

Shen Xiaozhu had already sealed off her own consciousness, leaving most of her humanity in a state of extinction. The remaining humanity was provided by the Black Cat Soul at her side, keeping her humanity and rationality in a delicate balance.

Wang Ping secretly used the Fortune Array to deduce the outcome. Hundreds, even thousands, of scenes appeared before his eyes. In other words, Shen Xiaozhu's advancement could end in either failure or success.

Below the thatched hut.

Shen Xiaozhu maintained that state for more than ten breaths. Just as the delicate balance between humanity and rationality was about to break, she took out the Primordial Spirit of a Third Realm Taiyan cultivator that she had prepared in advance from her Storage Bag and crushed it. She then brought forth a blank talisman fused with a Soul Lure, raised her left hand to draw in Wood Spirit Qi, and traced the Heaven Connecting Talisman onto the blank talisman.

Seeing this, Yulian unconsciously leaned forward slightly.

Wang Ping sensed Yulian's tension. Shen Xiaozhu's Heaven Connecting Talisman was nowhere near as decisive as Xuan Ling's had been—she actually stopped halfway through drawing it!

Because at that moment, the Huai Tree Soul she had fused in the Second Realm suddenly awakened. While Shen Xiaozhu's soul consciousness was wholly focused on drawing the Heaven Connecting Talisman, it seized most of her humanity.

This was the prelude to a failed advancement!

All of this happened in an instant. Just as Shen Xiaozhu's newly cultivated spiritual body was about to mutate, Wang Ping activated the Sky-Veiling Talisman and used his formidable cultivation to forcibly suppress the consciousness within Shen Xiaozhu's spiritual veins.

But Shen Xiaozhu's spiritual vein consciousness had long since fused with her own. As a result, Shen Xiaozhu herself was suppressed as well. Her