In the past, you might have treated information from any external source as reference, but you would never have taken it as sacred truth. Yet ever since encountering Ru Shou, you had unconsciously placed far too much trust in Xunyoudu. That trust had even made your normally steady temperament somewhat rash.
Now, faced with Karma Fire, whose fatality rate was absurdly high, this should have been a situation where not the slightest mistake could be tolerated. Yet you had treated it so lightly. This made you wary.
As your cultivation and strength had risen, it seemed you had also grown somewhat lax. You had never expected a Witch Treasure to be able to influence you so inexplicably. Thinking back to the white light that had shone upon Xunyoudu earlier, that brief moment had been your only contact with it. Perhaps it had passively influenced you then. In other words, aside from guiding others, this Witch Treasure likely possessed an ability to make outsiders trust it. Even you had unknowingly fallen into its trap!
Fortunately, Xunyoudu had neither interest in you nor any ill intent toward you. Coupled with the fact that your soul realm was already not low, you had been able to react in time. Otherwise, if you had truly trusted Xunyoudu without condition and believed that anything you did would succeed, the consequences would have been unimaginably dreadful.
With that thought, you began correcting your mindset. Once you confirmed that you were no longer under any other influence, you started disregarding the guidance Xunyoudu had given Ru Shou, treating this as nothing more than an ordinary treasure hunt. The predicament before the treasure lay right before you. What you needed to do now was consider every possibility and overcome it...
The shift in your thinking allowed you to