After returning to his fiefdom, Chen Lin was still deep in thought.
His expression kept shifting.
Grass grew increasingly worried.
She gently slipped her arm around his.
But she did not know how to comfort him, so she simply stayed silent and nestled quietly against him.
Seeing this, Chen Lin immediately put his thoughts aside.
He drew Grass's petite body into his arms and said, "It's nothing serious. I just discovered that something isn't quite right with the Seven-Star Shining Sun cultivation technique."
"What's wrong with it?"
Grass's expression changed.
A cultivation technique was a practitioner's foundation. Although she was an innate spiritual entity and did not need one, she still understood its importance.
"It's not really anything serious. Earlier, when I used the Immortal Star's Star Ring to destroy that Black-robed Person's nascent soul and soul, I discovered that the Star Ring could actually devour his origin essence and feed it back to the Immortal Star itself, making it stronger."
Chen Lin explained.
"Isn't that a good thing?"
Grass looked somewhat surprised.
From what he had said, he had benefited. She did not understand why Chen Lin was unhappy instead.
Chen Lin shook his head.
"I originally thought this was a dharmic formula of supreme strength and pure yang," he said gravely. "That the so-called Spirit Refining and Immortal Refining were merely offensive capabilities targeting different cultivation systems."
After a pause, he continued, "I never imagined that the technique's targeting went beyond suppression. It can also devour practitioners of the corresponding system."
"That means this technique has strayed from the righteous path!"
Chen Lin sighed.
He was not being overly scrupulous.
In truth, he had never considered himself an orthodox cultivator, nor did he harbor any desire to save the common people. He was merely an insignificant man struggling