Faced with Ye Lin's silence, the Dao Voice seemed to grow even more interested, questioning him again and again.
The chains kept tightening, as though they wanted to drag Ye Lin completely into the hell beneath the earth.
Beyond that, countless obsessions and regrets—every fixation and regret from the past—assaulted Ye Lin's mind.
Having come this far, it was impossible for Ye Lin to have no obsessions or regrets at all.
And the heart demon tribulation had seized precisely this opening.
The next moment, Ye Lin slowly opened his eyes. He sat quietly in the void, facing the heart demon head-on as all the regrets, fears, obsessions, and confusion of the past surged through his mind.
Suddenly, the Flower of Laws above Ye Lin's head burst forth with gentle rays of light. Those rays pierced the void, transcending the concepts of space and time, and firmly protected Ye Lin's true spirit.
At that moment, the black chains wrapped around Ye Lin's body shattered completely.
"My Dao is not Transcendence for the sake of Transcendence. It is to understand my heart and see my true nature, to uphold my original heart as I walk the Great Dao."
Ye Lin murmured to himself, suppressing every voice within his mind.
At that instant, flashes of insight continuously emerged in his mind.
"All things are straw dogs; the Dao is without feeling! Yet there is feeling in my heart, and righteousness in my Dao!"
"To walk the merciless Dao with a compassionate heart—this is my Great Luo!"
"I do not transcend all things. I comprehend that all things lie within the Dao, and I too am one link in the Dao. I must walk my Dao and bear my responsibility!"
"But I am myself, not anyone else. The Transcendence I seek is only the