Have you ever truly loved someone?
Song Shuhang had not even finished speaking before reality slapped him square in the face. His heart ached.
The heavenly tribulation had clearly ended, yet the heart demon lurking within Ding Gan had transformed into a "heart demon tribulation" at the very last moment, raising the tribulation's difficulty.
To receive the heart demon tribulation treatment while advancing from the Second Stage to the Third Stage—who knew whether that made little fellow daoist Ding Gan lucky or unlucky?
"That's why you shouldn't speak too quickly sometimes. Speak too quickly, and you're liable to get slapped in the face," Pavilion Master Chu said earnestly. "Next time, you'd better run your words through your head before speaking."
Song Shuhang sighed softly. "I'd like to, too."
But sometimes I just can't control myself.
Pavilion Master Chu: "..."
As they spoke, the heart demon surrounding little fellow daoist Ding Gan below underwent a change.
Countless squid tentacles tangled into a mess, with several even tied into knots that would not come undone. In that instant, the "nature of their existence" changed slightly.
It evolved from a "heart demon" into a "heart demon tribulation"!
A single word made all the difference: a raw heart demon that only the Shadow Lord could eat had evolved into an ingredient for the Heavenly Tribulation Set.
The squid tentacles enveloped Ding Gan's body... judging purely by the visuals, it was decidedly adults-only.
Song Shuhang remembered Pavilion Master Chu saying last time that Ding Gan's heart demon was "love."
Love was a difficult problem shared by all intelligent beings.
Even though the various cultivation sects provided counseling classes for their young disciples to deepen their understanding of "love," whenever disciples developed "heart demons," more than half still had something to do with "love."
Even if