A haunting had broken out in the village. Rumors spread that zombies were appearing, and for a time, the people were gripped by panic. The less people understand about the world, the more they fear the unknown.
This so-called haunting was precisely an arrangement by the Heavenly Dao to further suppress Chen Xuan's Dao Heart. If Chen Xuan could not even face these strange and anomalous events, if he lacked the courage to uncover the secrets behind them, then the clouds of ignorance shrouding his Dao Heart would only grow deeper. Eventually, they would cause Chen Xuan to lose his faith in pursuing the Great Dao entirely.
This trial seemed simple, yet it unfolded without Chen Xuan even being aware of it. Whether he, as an "ignorant and shortsighted villager," could successfully resist depended entirely on whether that faint, underlying instinct—his true self as an Immortal Cultivator—could awaken from the deepest recesses of his consciousness.
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