Sect Grand Ceremony

Watching the Spatial Cage Zone vanish into nothingness, Nie Yun knew that he had once again parted from the girl he loved. But unlike his Past Life, he now knew what had happened to Tantai Lingyue. She had not died; she had merely returned to her family.

As long as she was not dead, there was hope—even if her family's strength was as unreachable as the heavens!

Standing quietly where he was, he recalled every little moment he had shared with the girl. On careful thought, the Outer Heaven Treasure in the Ghost Mist Underworld Sea had most likely belonged to her family and had been used to summon her.

Otherwise, there was no way such a powerful treasure could have been completely refined in just a few breaths.

After obtaining the Wood Life Master Talent, he had once treated the hidden injury in her soul. Only then had he discovered that it was not an injury at all, but instability in her Dao Heart caused by cultivation.

An unstable Dao Heart could only be held firm through one's own will. No matter how potent the pill or how skilled the Wood Life Master, neither could heal it. If one failed to hold on, the result would be a regression in cultivation and damage to the soul at best; at worst, direct death.

There were several causes for an unstable Dao Heart. The three most common were: first, a conflict between one's inner beliefs and one's cultivation technique. For example, someone cultivating a Buddhist Sect technique of great compassion and mercy, yet being bloodthirsty by nature and born to slaughter, would suffer this problem. Second, doubting the beliefs one had always upheld and questioning the results of one's cultivation. Third, being affected by powerful negative emotions such as jealousy, hatred,