With the return of their eye and ear consciousnesses, both Li Bufan and He Wanxing's ability to resist the power of the Six Desires had clearly strengthened.
He Wanxing no longer fell into confusion at every turn as she had when they first entered the secret realm. Her gaze held an added clarity, and her steps had become far steadier.
Li Bufan's senses, meanwhile, had grown several times sharper than before. He could clearly distinguish which sights around them were real and which were illusions woven by the power of the Six Desires.
But Li Bufan knew that the return of his eye and ear consciousnesses did not mean everything was well.
To pull He Wanxing out of her immersion in sound desire, he had used the Fetal Breath Spirit Refining Art to draw the power of the Six Desires clinging to her body into his own Spirit Sea.
After entering his Spirit Sea, that power of the Six Desires had not been easily suppressed by the Mountain Character Art as before. Instead, it circled deep within his Spiritual Sense like a pack of ghosts unable to find their resting place—neither dispersing nor merging, stubbornly entrenched there.
At first, Li Bufan had not paid it much mind.
He had thought that the power of the Six Desires was merely attached to him temporarily and would naturally disperse once he had fully refined the fire of Thus Have I Heard.
But that was not the case—the power of the Six Desires seemed to possess a consciousness of its own. It roamed endlessly through his Spirit Sea, slowly eating away at his Spiritual Sense bit by bit.
He had no choice but to use the Mountain Character Art to suppress it. Yet the Mountain Character Art was itself a cultivation technique for