This time, Li Bufan did not have He Wanxing lead the way.
He knew what He Wanxing feared most was sound—in Six Desires Heaven, desires of sound posed a far greater threat to her than the other five desires.
If he had her search for the fire of Thus Have I Heard, she would likely be completely devoured by the various desires of sound along the way before she ever found that Spiritual Fire.
So he could only rely on himself for this trial.
Once more, he slowly withdrew the suppressive force of the Mountain Character Art from within his Spirit Sea.
As the phantom image of the Divine Mountain gradually faded, the power of the six desires flooded back into his senses.
This time, what arrived first were decadent, seductive sounds—music of strings and woodwinds, singing, and laughter woven together, lush and lingering, descending upon him like an invisible net.
Yet Li Bufan did not react too strongly to these sounds. In his previous life, he had lived in an age of information overload; what kind of music and sounds had he not heard?
His ears had long drifted through an ocean of countless sounds time and again. Though this music was delicate and pleasing, it was nowhere near enough to make him lose himself in it.
He continued onward, his steps steady and unaffected.
But after walking for several hours, the sounds at his ears began to change.
Those seductive melodies gradually receded, replaced by an entirely different sound—someone softly reciting the formulas of cultivation arts, every word and sentence clear to the ear.
He heard, "the principles of mutual generation and restraint among the five elements," "the wondrous formula for circulating True Essence," "the essential meaning behind condensing a Golden Core"...
Every word of those formulas was