After Shen Mo attained the Formless Realm, the entire Crimson Flame Sect rejoiced. Sparing no expense, they held an advancement celebration at the outer mountain gate!
The grand ceremony was exceptionally solemn and lively, with guests gathering like clouds and a magnificent spectacle unfolding. Countless old friends and acquaintances, along with Jade Spring Mountain cultivators—including several Formless True Lords—came to offer their congratulations...
Shen Mo sat high in the seat of honor. The hall was filled with familiar fellow disciples, as well as unfamiliar Divine Bridge and Formless True Lords. Though his face was wreathed in smiles, his heart remained filled with an indescribable sense of strangeness.
"I should have passed the tribulation of attaining the Dao, and there seems to be nothing wrong with my past experiences or memories. But why... does it all feel somewhat unreal?"
With a thought, he opened the Destiny Panel.
He then took turns placing special Destinies into the grooves of his Fate Disk, testing their effects.
Everything was normal!
He changed to [Insight into All Living Beings] and expended a great quantity of Spirit Stones to peer into the backgrounds of the cultivators who had come to congratulate him. The feedback from this Destiny remained without anomaly.
Yet the sense of unease in Shen Mo's heart only grew stronger.
At once, he used an escape art, and his figure vanished from the Crimson Flame Sect's outer mountain gate, leaving behind only a crowd of utterly stunned onlookers!
Over the following period, Shen Mo traveled through nearly all of Jade Spring Mountain. He employed countless methods, including the Soul Searching Curse, attempting to verify whether the information returned by [Insight into All Living Beings] was true or false, yet still found no flaws or contradictions.
However, as he investigated ever more deeply, he finally