The Test of Human Nature

Zhou Yang had not expected that his reunion with Zhu Zizhen would take place under such circumstances.

After discovering that it was Zhu Zizhen attacking the cave dwelling outside, he had no choice but to go out and stop her first, lest she completely destroy the formations outside. He then invited her inside.

"Please forgive Zhou for being presumptuous, but how did Senior Zhu find this place?"

After inviting Zhu Zizhen into the cave dwelling, Zhou Yang, as the host, began probing into her purpose.

He could not help being curious. This underground sea of magma was boundless; he absolutely did not believe Zhu Zizhen had arrived here by chance.

Yet after hearing his question, Zhu Zizhen did not answer immediately. Instead, she looked at him with the same surprise in her eyes and asked, "I am also quite curious. How did Fellow Daoist Zhou come to be here? And from the looks of it, you seem to have gone through a fierce battle!"

Zhu Zizhen remembered that when she and Zhou Yang parted ways in the Cultivation World of the Donghua Continent, Zhou Yang had only been at Golden Core Layer 8.

Now, only two hundred years had passed since their parting, yet Zhou Yang had not only successfully formed his Nascent Soul, but apparently had done so long ago. He had already cultivated to the Nascent Soul Second Layer.

Such cultivation speed was exceedingly rare among human cultivators.

If that were all, it would have been one thing.

But what puzzled Zhu Zizhen was how Zhou Yang had come to the sea of magma deep beneath the Savage Jungle, and how he had occupied this obviously extraordinary cave dwelling.

She had already witnessed the formation outside this cave dwelling. Though it posed little threat to her, ordinary Nascent