Walker Of The Worlds

Xukong was a little shocked upon seeing the faces of Lin Mu's parents appearing on the dark figure's face.

"Why did Lin Mu never speak to me about this?" Xukong questioned himself.

'Has he been suppressing this in his mind all long, such that it has now turned into his Heart Demon?' Xukong thought to himself.

Indeed, the figure that was alternating between the two faces was none other than a Heart Demon. A Heart Demon is the product of the cultivator's emotions, memories, and guilt. They combine together and give birth to an entity that eventually becomes a Heart Demon.

A Heart Demon can gravely harm a cultivator if they don't deal with it or suppress it. Every cultivator that exists will one day develop a Heart Demon, the only difference is when. Even the most staunch, just, righteous, and willful of cultivators develop Heart Demons when they undergo their tribulations, not to say about the other common or unorthodox cultivators.

Though the reason why Xukong was so shocked was because Lin Mu was simply not at the cultivation stage where he could develop a Heart Demon. A Heart Demon also required a large quantity of spirit qi to be born, thus the earliest a cultivator could develop a heart demon was at the Core Condensation realm.

Lin Mu developing one at the Mid-stage of the Qi refining realm simply did not make sense. This was apparent since looking at the heart demon, Xukong could tell that it was not fully developed and was thus forcibly absorbing the spirit qi in Lin Mu's dantian.

"Even if it absorbs the entirety of Lin Mu's Spirit Qi stores, it still won't be able to live. Nevertheless, I have to do something." Xukong spoke inwardly.

Xukong was just about to act when suddenly, his spirit sense was pushed back because of an immense pressure.

"Wha… What?" Xukong spoke after recoiling.

He looked around and saw that the True Grand Formation Array had activated. The runes on it started shifting and showed a myriad of changes. It was as if the workings of the heavens were hidden within the formation and gave one a slight glance into it.

Xukong could not help but be lost within the mysteries of the True Grand Formation Array. A moment later he forcibly snapped out of his daze, as a chill went down his body.

"This is truly fearsome. It can even pull someone like me into it." Xukong spoke with a little fear in his voice.

~screech~

Xukong then heard a loud echoing screech and saw an oval mass appear over the formation array. The oval mass was making shrieking and crying noises which made one's ears hurt and hair stand on the end.

demon that was hidden within. The heart demon was floating above the formation array and seemed to be greatly distressed. It seemed to have stabilized its form temporarily after absorbing

is the heart

was glowing with white light started to thrum with power. Even more intense waves of

the waves of energy were only targeting the heart demon. The energy waves would be released by the altar and then surround

altar is sealing the Heart Demon? No! This is something else…"

the energy shell it started floating towards the altar. It came to a

And then it happened…

by the altar was no longer white. Instead, it had turned into a crimson shade of red.

aura… how can it be here…"

spread inside the ring

is the aura of the Demonic Path!" Xukong stated before

*****

in the real world. A stream of memories were currently flashing in Lin

was looking at a rough and

father." The

have a choice, my son. I need to go

the boy were a pair of

if you fall sick like mother as well?"

middle of the winter as well. I don't know

changed and a different scene appeared

now standing over two graves alone. He fell on

had waited for a few more days, the medicine

am I supposed to do, now that you two

other people could

kept on replaying in Lin Mu's mind over and over again. Each time he would think what if, it didn't happen? What if they did something different? Or what if they had chosen to wait? But every time he thought about each 'What if?', the

conditions in the past and then how the town head had rejected everyone's calls for aid. He would then recall all the luxuries that the Town head was enjoying and could not help but wonder, what it was

mysterious ring. He did not even react when the spirit qi within his body started depleting rapidly. The only thing that mattered