696 Showdown!

As more and more Spirit Transformation cultivators entered the Bloodthirsty Forest, defeated Spirit Transformation cultivators emerged from the forest one after another.

In less than half a day, thirty or forty early- and mid-stage Spirit Transformation cultivators had eagerly gone in, only for an equal number to come out looking utterly bedraggled.

Without exception, they had lost with astonishing speed. For some reason, after their defeat, they kept silent, merely watching with schadenfreude as other Spirit Transformation cultivators entered the forest, then came back out as unlucky as they had been.

"Go in and fight, and all the mysteries will suddenly become clear—you'll naturally understand what's going on. If you don't go in, you'll never understand that marvelous process! This is the most painful, yet also the most exhilarating thing I, Skyward True Person, have encountered in centuries."

"People who don't understand won't get it even if I talk until my tongue is dry. But fellow Daoists who have gone in and fought only need the slightest hint to grasp it; every one of them understands the profound mystery within, enough to savor for decades or even centuries."

Skyward True Person was practically spraying spittle as he proudly proclaimed his hard-won experience, urging the other Spirit Transformation cultivators to go in as well.

Naturally, everything Skyward True Person said had nothing to do with the details of the battle.

This inevitably aroused the curiosity of even more Spirit Transformation cultivators, who wanted to enter and fight Ye Qin to get to the bottom of it.

Every Spirit Transformation cultivator who emerged defeated from the Bloodthirsty Forest stirred a wave of intense curiosity.

The vast majority of the Spirit Transformation cultivators had yet to enter the forest. Watching one defeated cultivator after another emerge, they gradually grew shocked, and an unbelievable