Gu Lingxi Leaves Her Seclusion

Like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

As autumn arrived, Luo Chen returned to the Starfall Ancient Realm and continued fulfilling his pill orders.

Over the past three months, he had often observed that young man and discovered that after absorbing those forces of darkness and karmic fragments, his cultivation had not increased in the slightest.

It was as though there was a bottomless abyss within him, capable of devouring and refining everything.

Luo Chen could still understand the forces of darkness.

But the karmic fragments produced by the Gu Demon Realm came from a divine ability wielded by a Hunyuan Daluo.

Yet the other party could absorb even that, without undergoing any change at all.

That in itself was a miracle.

At one point, Luo Chen's curiosity got the better of him. His true body secretly descended, and he cast a Lifespan inspection on the young man.

[Ling Yun (Divine Intent Realm): 25/9999!]

Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years of Lifespan!

An ordinary Divine Intent Realm cultivator had, at most, five hundred years of Lifespan.

Luo Chen became even more interested in the young man named Ling Yun.

At Ling Yun's current age of twenty-five, he had only just reached the Divine Intent Realm. Among the other fortune-blessed sects of the World Sea, that was not particularly outstanding.

His constitution was far too unusual—there were gains and losses alike. Perhaps that heaven-defying constitution was what had suppressed the advancement of his cultivation.

Luo Chen fell into thought. By all reason, the dark energy Ling Yun had devoured should have been enough for him to break through to the Forging the Dao Realm.

Of course, in reality, a Divine Intent Realm cultivator could not possibly absorb dark energy and the power of karma.

Not only had