Looking at Chen Changsheng's concerned face, Baleful Shadow's mouth twitched.
"Sir, I followed the cultivation method exactly. Why did this happen?"
Chen Changsheng smiled. "The Soul Secret Method in your hands has indeed been tested."
"But I never said it was safe."
"Why not?"
"How could cutting your True Spirit possibly be safe? Do you have no common sense, kid?"
Baleful Shadow: "..."
That makes so much sense I can't even argue.
But before Baleful Shadow could ask another question, Mo Bai, who was visualizing the scroll nearby, ran into trouble too.
Blood flowed from Mo Bai's eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, and his aura fell into disarray.
"Child, how could you use the visualization image I gave you like an ordinary one?"
Chen Changsheng chided him mildly, then pulled him straight out of his visualization.
Mo Bai stared at Chen Changsheng in terror. "Sir, I just saw..."
"I know what you saw. The Supreme Sage did that deliberately when he painted it."
Chen Changsheng raised a hand to cut Mo Bai off and spoke at an unhurried pace. "Many years ago, the Desolate Heaven Emperor and the others were fighting the people of the Four Brahma Three Realms."
"For a time, the enemy poured through a breach."
"Manpower was desperately short, so the Supreme Sage devised a way to hold them back."
"He had the Desolate Heaven Emperor display his strongest state, then used his peerless art of painting to capture its spirit."
"As he painted, the Supreme Sage also incorporated the Three Thousand Demonic Paths to trap the enemy as thoroughly as possible."
"What are the Three Thousand Demonic Paths?"
"The path the Nether River Ancestor used to cultivate. He came up with that name himself, though."
Mo Bai was startled by the answer. "How did the Supreme