"Ha ha... you're the second person to make that choice." The old man smiled. "Go back!"
Su Mo turned his head, and the scene before him began to blur. The pavilion on the bluestone steps within the Ghost Gate began to appear.
The two scenes overlapped, and the torrential rain in the illusion gradually gave way to the scene inside the Ghost Gate.
Su Mo opened his mouth to ask more, but a gust of wind blew past, and the illusion vanished completely from his sight.
Su Mo opened his eyes to find all four of them watching him. Cheng An’an and Dao Hua looked innocent, Gu Yu's face was full of concern, and Ning Baixue's was filled with complicated emotions.
"Did you find your 'true self'?" Cheng An’an and Dao Hua asked as they looked at Su Mo. Gu Yu was also deeply concerned about this.
Ning Baixue, however, looked aside without saying a word.
Su Mo slowly shook his head. He had indeed not found his true self!
What had begun as a journey to find his true self had instead ended with a scene like an interrogation of his heart.
For some reason, he felt that the Ghost Gate's second trial had been about finding the "true self" for the others, but had held some other intention for him.
Su Mo could not say exactly what that intention was.
The illusion in this second trial had been incredibly real. It had felt like the illusion in the Divine Realm, as though it had been constructed from reality!
And who was that old man?
He had said Su Mo was the second. Who, then, had been the first?
"Ha ha, I told you your comprehension wasn't good enough! We all found ours!" Dao Hua laughed, only for Cheng