Chapter 174: Chapter 79: Inner Scenery Divine Transformation Demon Suppression Scripture

Yang Jing skimmed through the Nine Illusions Mirage Demon Scripture. This Demon Skill was recorded on a Jade Scroll that Wu Siming carried with him. It documented the Cultivation Technique from Qi Cultivation all the way to Golden Core, and it also contained Wu Siming’s numerous annotations and insights.

Because the Inconstant Illusionary Shadow Technique was derived from the Nine Illusions Mirage Demon Scripture, Yang Jing only had to browse through it briefly before all sorts of new insights dawned on him.

Stowing the Jade Scroll into his Storage Bag, Yang Jing slowly exhaled. ’Demon Skills truly live up to their name.’ The Nine Illusions Mirage Demon Scripture allowed for extremely rapid progress in the early stages because its practitioners breathed in the Demonic Qi of the Nine Illusion Mirage Demon, not Spiritual Qi.

From initiate to Qi Cultivation Perfection, the fastest took only two and a half years, while the slowest took no more than four. There were no slower ones, because the Demon Sect had no need for such trash. Their only fate was to be dismantled and used as raw material for Refining Demon Artifacts or performing Rituals.

Even progressing from the First Layer of Foundation Establishment to Perfection only required a mere thirty years.

Even if only one or two out of a hundred could succeed in their cultivation—with all the rest being devoured by the Nine Illusion Mirage Demon—a steady stream of Demon Cultivators within the Illusion Demon Sect still wished to practice this Cultivation Technique.

Learning Magic, Arrays, and Alchemy is difficult. But by using the Nine Illusion Mirage Demon Qi to devour an enemy’s Divine Soul, all the skills they painstakingly honed would instantly become mine.

Lacking defensive measures? Just spread the Demon Sect’s Body Refining Techniques, and some fool will diligently train themselves into a tough, fleshy Demon Puppet.

Yang Jing also found the technique’s fatal flaw within the Nine Illusions Mirage Demon Scripture: its most powerful Illusion Techniques were greatly restricted when used in an environment overflowing with Yang Qi.

He sighed. If Wu Siming hadn’t run into him—his perfect counter—he really wouldn’t have been defeated so easily.

No wonder that despite being a Dark Room, he was so arrogant, conceited, and looked down on everyone.

But as good as this Cultivation Technique was, while practitioners of the Nine Illusions Mirage Demon Scripture could treat all living beings as their Puppets, weren’t they themselves just Puppets of the Nine Illusion Mirage Demon?

The greatest tribulation for a practitioner of the Nine Illusions Mirage Demon Scripture was Core Formation. The moment they attempted it was the day the Nine Illusion Mirage Demon from beyond the Nine Heavens came to reap its harvest.

This was because after achieving Core Formation with the Nine Illusions Mirage Demon Scripture, a cultivator could completely purge the Nine Illusion Mirage Demon’s brand from their Demonic Qi, severing all connection to it. From then on, they would be free and unfettered, no longer living under a sword of Damocles poised to fall at any moment.

How could the Nine Illusion Mirage Demon tolerate a pig it had raised for so long jumping the fence and escaping just as it ripened? Thus, it would certainly appear during Core Formation to obstruct their path.

The reason Wu Siming didn’t focus on preparing for Core Formation after reaching Foundation Establishment Perfection, and instead ran off to the Northern Army Governor’s Mansion to be a precarious Dark Room, was that he hoped to earn enough merit for his Sect to help him with Core Formation and block the Nine Illusion Mirage Demon that would come to obstruct his path.

Naturally, Yang Jing had no intention of practicing a Cultivation Technique with such severe future consequences.

He then inspected the other Jade Scrolls. Most of them contained classified intelligence about the Northern Army Governor’s Mansion.

Another Jade Scroll was for Wu Siming to hand over his duties to a successor Dark Room and to report his own achievements.

It detailed how Wu Siming had secretly investigated and uncovered the details and routes of the Demon Patrol Envoys, then organized Demon Cultivators from the Northern Domain Seven Kingdoms to ambush and kill the previous envoys.

A full seven Demon Patrol Envoys had died by his various schemes, forcing their successors in the Northern Domain Seven Kingdoms to cower in the Governor’s Mansion, not daring to take any action.

Even though the enraged Northern Army Governor’s Mansion had thoroughly purged the Northern Domain Seven Kingdoms, these rogue demons were like leeks in a field. As long as a few Demon Skills were scattered about, they would grow back on their own.

As long as the elite Demon Cultivators he had secretly nurtured didn’t die, it wasn’t a truly crippling blow.

A large part of the reason Wu Siming had moved against him was that the Cold Spring Three Demons, Venerable Niu Li, and the Profound Cyan Old Demon were all elites he had painstakingly nurtured.

He had even planned to use those three Yin Death Demon Serpents to refine a Demon Artifact.

Yang Jing’s unpredictable move had destroyed decades of his hard work in an instant.

Even that precious Demon-Catching Tripod had fallen into Yang Jing’s hands. How could Wu Siming not be grinding his teeth in hatred?

For him to not launch a sneak attack in his fury, but instead plot to have Lou Chenglong of the Dharma Image Sect test his own capabilities, showed that Wu Siming had some Willpower after all.

The end of this Jade Scroll listed the Foundation Establishment Demon Cultivators that Wu Siming had painstakingly cultivated, as well as their contact methods. Aside from the Liao Kingdom, which Yang Jing had already swept clean, there were three to five people in each of the remaining Six Kingdoms.

Yang Jing carefully put away this Jade Scroll. In his opinion, its contents were even more valuable than the Nine Illusions Mirage Demon Scripture.

The next Jade Scroll recorded the Supreme Profound Upper Yang Sect’s Taixiao True Thunder Skill. This technique’s standing in the Supreme Profound Upper Yang Sect was similar to that of the Five Elements True Thunder in the Five Elements True Spirit Sect—only Inner Sect Disciples were qualified to practice it.

Yang Jing skimmed through it. Wu Siming must have obtained this Thunder Technique from the real “Wu Siming.”

Although the Taixiao True Thunder was a Celestial Thunder Technique, it shared many similarities with the Five Elements True Thunder. Coupled with the fact that Yang Jing possessed the Epic Talent of ’Mastery of the Five Thunders,’ he gained a great deal of insight from just a single look.

With a casual wave of his hand, the purple Taixiao True Thunder leaped up from the Seal and flew into his palm.

’Shenxiao Thunder Seal.’

He finally knew the name of this Spiritual Artifact. The seal could absorb and control various types of Celestial Thunder, helping a Cultivator practice Thunder Techniques.

Wu Siming had only crudely released the Taixiao True Thunder stored within it. It was truly a case of casting pearls before swine.

Yang Jing carefully put it away.

The Six Great Sects had a law: any Cultivation Technique or Magical Artifact seized from a Demon Cultivator belonged to the one who vanquished them. The original owner of the Cultivation Technique or Magical Artifact, as well as their relatives, were forbidden from seeking retribution.

Take this Taixiao True Thunder Technique, for example. As long as Yang Jing registered it with the Northern Army Governor’s Mansion, he could practice and use it freely, and the Supreme Profound Upper Yang Sect would absolutely not come looking for trouble with him.

This measure was also for the sake of harmony between the Six Sects.

After all, since the Six Great Sects all allowed their Inner Sect Disciples to take non-core legacies out of the sect to establish their own families, they naturally wouldn’t be obsessively strict about disciples from other sects practicing their Magic.

Only for their core legacies would the Six Great Sects spend all sorts of treasures and Spirit Stones to buy them back.

Yang Jing took out the last Jade Scroll, which recorded the Dharma Image Sect’s Inner Scenery Divine Transformation Demon Suppression Scripture.

This was none other than the Secret Technique of the Dharma Image Sect for condensing a Dharma Aspect. By practicing according to this scripture, one could manifest the divinity within their heart, transforming it into a Dharma Aspect to protect oneself and overcome enemies in Magical Combat, becoming ever-victorious.

This Dharma Aspect was not only empowered by Magical Power and Divine Soul, but also by the physical body. The stronger the body, the stronger the Dharma Aspect.

This Daoist Technique was precisely what Wu Siming had obtained from that Demon Shadow of the Dharma Image Sect. The Demon Shadow was originally an Inner Sect Disciple of the Dharma Image Sect who was secretly murdered by Wu Siming, and all of his wealth and Cultivation Techniques fell into Wu Siming’s hands.

Yang Jing was pleasantly surprised. With this Inner Scenery Divine Transformation Demon Suppression Scripture, it was possible to skip the Qi Cultivation Technique and only practice the Dharma Manifestation Skill.

After all, a Dharma Aspect was just a type of Secret Technique for utilizing one’s Divine Soul and Magical Power.

The only drawback was that the resulting Dharma Aspect would be half a step weaker than that of a true Dharma Image Sect disciple.

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