When the four elders collectively erupted.
After everyone exchanged looks, the atmosphere became awkward for a moment.
Lin Xuan, who had been carefully observing and learning from the side, was completely dumbfounded.
Why had he never heard that breaking through from the Golden Core Realm to the Nascent Soul Realm could cause something like this?
Cultivators at this level had long since abstained from food.
Even if they occasionally ate something, it should not have given them diarrhea, right?
And all four of them at once, no less?
In the end, Deputy Sect Master Zhang Dazhi was the first to break the silence.
"What happened to you? Even if your breakthrough failed, it shouldn't have..."
The four elders did not answer.
Instead, they took out clean clothes from their storage rings and changed.
Before changing, they used spells to remove the filth from their bodies.
The First Elder, whose dignity had already been scattered across the ground, also realized that things were not so simple.
His face darkened as he said, "This time, I had already seen through my inner demon and was on the verge of breaking through, yet for some reason I fell into my inner demon again. Moreover, I have abstained from food for years and have never eaten mortal food. By all reason, there should have been no filth within my body."
"So was I."
"Same here."
The other three elders voiced their agreement.
Then, in unison, they turned their gazes toward Lin Xuan.
Their old faces were as black as if ink had been splashed over them.
This was not so simple!
Though everyone stared at him like tigers eyeing their prey, Lin Xuan remained entirely calm.
With a composed expression, he said, "Do the elders misunderstand something about me? You all saw the quality