Chen Zui, who had been lowering his head to wipe his blade, finally looked up. "What kind of commotion do you still want?"
"Mm, I don't know, but isn't this terrifying? Ordinary people can barely even give rise to a Heart Demon, so how did the Nascent Soul and Heart Demon drive out the original self? They even managed to cultivate to Spirit Transformation?" Bian Chunchou could not puzzle it out no matter how he thought about it. It sounded like something very difficult to accomplish.
Wen Chishan was already dead, and no one knew the truth of what had happened. But Wen Xu felt that perhaps cultivating the Emotionless Dao had played a part in it. Just as his master had said, not a single cultivator of the Emotionless Dao was sane. Once a person wanted to sever something they had been born with, they were bound to discard even more.
Perhaps Wen Chishan had initially only wanted to cast away the emotions he possessed as a person, using that to fight his Heart Demon and achieve Spirit Transformation. But when cutting things away, it was inevitable that he had been heavy-handed. Once the original self grew weak, the Nascent Soul and Heart Demon naturally took advantage of the opening. With the east wind overwhelming the west wind, having his body seized became very easy to understand.
As for when it had been seized, the transformation had likely been completed silently under the influence of time and accumulation.
"You think it was because of the Emotionless Dao?"
Wen Xu nodded.
"I guessed so too. Of all things to cultivate, he had to cultivate the Emotionless Dao." Bian Chunchou pursed his lips. "Good thing you didn't cultivate that back then. Otherwise, the graduation rate would've been frighteningly low. I'd worry