Chapter 551

Within the illusion, Ian clearly saw how Walter had attempted to use the negative energy of human lives to force the sacred tree to turn malevolent. He sighed. "As a cultivator, I wonder why Walter would do that." "If the sacred tree turned malevolent, the amount of fortune and good karma he'd obtain from slaying it isn't something he would've been able to obtain through regular cultivation," explained Madison. Ian's eyes widened in disbelief. "T-There's no way the heavens would allow for such deception!" "Methods of evading the eye of the heavens have existed since ancient times," she said simply. Ian fell silent. He was a legitimate cultivator who devoted himself wholly to cultivation. He had always obeyed all the rules of cultivation. Therefore, it had never crossed his mind that there would actually be equally legitimate cultivators who would go so far as to force a sacred tree to turn malevolent. And it was all for the sake of their own cultivation progress too. Seeing the