Let it remain here forever, taking this secret with it.
Su Jiu left. Her face still betrayed no additional emotion as she departed, but the sleeve crumpled in her grip told her that her heart was not nearly so calm.
The dark red doors opened once more, then closed again.
The black aura that had spoken to Su Jiu lay piled inside its box, motionless, as though dead.
"She was the main reason your original self abandoned you, wasn't she? The Heartless Dao, tsk, tsk, tsk. Once feelings take root, there's no escaping eternal damnation."
"Who would have thought your original self was so ruthless? For the sake of his Dao heart, he forcibly stripped away his own seven emotions and six desires, uprooting his heart demon along with them."
No matter how the voices in the other boxes teased it, it never uttered another word.
Yet every black aura in those boxes knew that it was watching the direction in which Su Jiu had left.
"Is there any way I can go back?"
Mocking laughter rose from the surrounding boxes, one voice after another. "Go back? Brother, how much have you had to drink? Still haven't woken from your dream?"
"Throughout the ages, whether our original selves discarded us willingly or someone else stripped us away through some special method, ever since the Enforcement Hall was established, the only ones who actually managed to return seem to have been the seven emotions and six desires of the first Enforcement Hall Leader."
There was a long story behind that, but Chu Luohen had no desire to ask, so the other boxes did not elaborate.
"How did it go back?"
"Its original self called it back of his own accord."
"As long as the original self willingly calls us back, we