Confirming the Location

As more and more Star Gu joined in, the man in black's face looked worse and worse. Huo Hai's expression darkened too, not because he felt ill, but because the man still refused to speak.

After an unknown length of time, the man in black convulsed. The light in his vacant eyes gradually faded, and then he stopped moving altogether. Huo Hai checked him, and anger surged up inside him. "Damn it, he's dead." Number Twenty-Five had been unable to endure the torment and had died in agony.

That said, the man in black's will was formidable to have held out this long. Huo Hai had no idea how he had been trained, but even at the end, he had not screamed once.

When it came to enduring pain, perhaps only someone like Huo Hai, who had fused two souls, could compare. If the man in black had possessed such will before reaching the Spirit Practitioner Realm, he might have endured the tempering of the Body-Refining Spirit Formation.

The Blood Tempering Spirit Formation and Bone Tempering Spirit Formation were different from the Body-Refining Spirit Formation. A strong will alone was not enough; one's bloodline and soul also had to withstand the tempering. Huo Hai did not know that, while he cultivated the Ancient Insect Refinement Method, a mysterious power had stimulated his bloodline and made it considerably stronger. How could an ordinary person endure the Blood Tempering Spirit Formation?

The man's death left Huo Hai feeling ill at ease, and a shadow settled over his heart. There seemed to be more to this affair than met the eye. A deathsworn fighter in the Spirit Practitioner Realm was not someone just anyone could train.

"No, I need to find the World-Spirit Tree quickly. Wait—how did I forget that?" Huo Hai suddenly