The black clouds in the sky gathered thicker and thicker, yet showed no sign of descending. Xuan Du, meanwhile, stared blankly ahead as if he sensed nothing at all.
"What is going on?"
"Xuan Du is in danger!"
At some point, Zhunti had arrived beside Liu Mang and looked at Xuan Du with a grave expression.
Nu Wa slowly spoke as well.
"Xuan Du has begun to doubt his own Dao. If even he cannot firmly believe in the Dao within his heart, then he has no possibility of attaining Quasi-Sainthood."
"Then what will happen?"
"His body and Dao will perish. He will not even have the chance to reincarnate." Nu Wa's voice was cold, without sorrow or joy.
Liu Mang was anxious.
In the legends, Xuan Du had never encountered such a situation.
Could it be that only the Dao of Non-Action was best suited to Xuan Du?
Was this why Uncle-Master Taishang had not allowed Xuan Du to involve himself with the Human Race?
Liu Mang looked toward Taishang's pill-refining cave abode. Even Taishang, who had remained inside all this time, had unusually emerged, and was now looking at him with a stern gaze.
There was not the slightest emotion in his eyes, not even a ripple.
Uncle-Master Taishang, something seems wrong. Could it be that he had not been refining pills in his cave abode, but cultivating Taishang's Path of Ruthlessness?
Hearing Liu Mang's words, Nu Wa swept Taishang with her Spiritual Sense and found that he was exactly as Liu Mang had described.
"The Path of Ruthlessness? I never expected Senior Brother Tai Shang to walk this path. No wonder Liu Mang had been trying every possible way to keep Xuan Du from leaving the Human Race."
"Once one walks this path, one will become without