Chen Yao immersed himself in his mental world, sensing the Dao Fruit's influence on his consciousness.
This was terrifying. The Dao Fruit he had cultivated through repeated transcendence of the Extreme Realm actually had serious negative effects on him!
"Was it the Eight Extraordinary Skills? Couldn't those side effects naturally disappear simply because of the difference between worldviews?"
Chen Yao couldn't help recalling what he remembered of the Eight Extraordinary Skills' settings.
It seemed perhaps possible that Spirit Summoning and Commanding's potential side effects came from devouring spirits, but that had never been made clear.
The side effects of the Six Treasury Immortal Thief came from appetite, along with the accompanying effect of losing interest in everything except eating humans as one's cultivation increased. But it had always been hard to tell whether this meant coveting targets rich in Qi or simply coveting humans, and whether the decline in other desires came from weariness or actual distortion.
One issue was that he had hardly cultivated the Six Treasury Immortal Thief, much less transformed it into a Divine Ability, so he did not know whether it had any.
The side effects of Grand Luo Insight were unclear, but they might have had something to do with losing one's fate.
The side effects of Twin Hands were likewise unknown, perhaps bearing some connection to losing one's humanity and freely modifying one's own consciousness.
There was a tribulation when first learning Feng Hou's Mystic Gate: anyone enthralled by the power of its transformations would become trapped in the Inner Landscape forever. But that was not its side effect. The greater problem came from the spatial and temporal dislocations and changes in rules brought about when Qimen Formations transformed, fundamentally harming oneself through those drastic changes.
That kind of orthodoxy or evil had no