CHAPTER 381: CHAPTER 381: THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY

Jin Taohua saw that this Blood Spirit couldn’t even defeat the lowest level of Blood Spirits and felt it was useless, so she ignored it, letting the Blood Spirit devour Chen Guan.

But then she suddenly heard Chen Guan’s voice, causing her to be slightly surprised, and she looked up at Chen Guan again.

"This Blood Spirit can actually speak... and knows how to ask for help..." Just as it seemed that Chen Guan was going to be torn apart by the Blood Spirit, Jin Taohua waved her hand, causing the Blood Spirit to retreat to one side.

"You still have a consciousness of your own; who were you in life?" Jin Taohua asked, looking at Chen Guan.

"I don’t know... I forgot..." Chen Guan knew that if he wanted to survive, he had to make Jin Taohua feel he was special, but not too special, otherwise, he wouldn’t escape being killed on the spot.

"What do you still remember?" Jin Taohua frowned slightly.

"I want revenge..." Chen Guan said.

"Revenge for what? To kill me?" Jin Taohua’s brow furrowed tighter.

"Celestial King... hate... revenge..." Chen Guan said.

"Which Celestial King is your enemy?" Jin Taohua was a bit surprised and continued to inquire.

"Forget... don’t know..." Chen Guan said.

"What feud do you have with that Celestial King?" Jin Taohua continued to ask.

"Book... secret few... Celestial King... seize..." Chen Guan spoke haltingly, trying hard to play the part of a Blood Spirit that had lost the majority of its memory.

"Was the Celestial King trying to seize your Secret Skill or Secret Manual?" Jin Taohua became interested.

"Secret... and..." Chen Guan mumbled.

"Do you still remember the contents?" Jin Taohua couldn’t make out what Chen Guan was saying.

"Dead... remember..." Chen Guan said.

"Good... recite it..." Jin Taohua directly ordered.

Chen Guan did not dare to hesitate at all; he had to make Jin Taohua think he was a Blood Spirit that obeyed orders one hundred percent, just with the accidental retention of some memories.

What Chen Guan recited was the "Emperor’s Scripture," also known as the Dual Cultivation Technique.

As Jin Taohua listened, her eternally indifferent face gradually showed a change of expression.

Now Chen Guan was just trying to buy time, hoping he could delay until the Daluo Dream Butterfly came to take him back.

"King of Du got the Daluo Dream Butterfly and could go to the Immortal Palace Jade Hall, and got a copy of the ’Daluo Golden Immortal Scripture,’ but when it comes to me, I’m the one who has to trade a copy of the ’Emperor’s Scripture’..." Chen Guan thought sullenly.

Luckily, he was just a Spirit Body, so there were no expressions on his face, and he didn’t have to worry about being noticed.

As Chen Guan recited, he also thought about what he should do to delay the time if the Female Demon intended to kill him.

"If it really doesn’t work, I could recite the original text of the Secret Technique of One, which is over a hundred thousand words. That should allow enough time until the Daluo Dream Butterfly gets me back, right?" Chen Guan calculated in his heart.

The look in Jin Taohua’s eyes kept changing. With her status, she naturally heard the subtleties of the "Emperor’s Scripture."

This was clearly a Dual Cultivation method, but the level of its intricacies was somewhat unbelievable even to Jin Taohua.

"That such a powerful Dual Cultivation Technique exists in the world, not only does it not harm others, but it can be mutually beneficial, achieving a state where Yin and Yang combine, and all laws return to one."

The more Jin Taohua listened, the more profound she felt it was. As for the other contents, it was fine, but when Jin Taohua heard the last part of the Daytime Ascension Chapter, she was even more shocked.

If this "Emperor’s Scripture" is practiced to the end, it can break through the Great Cave Heaven’s realm and directly ascend to another mysterious level.

Low-level cultivators might not understand what this represents.

Jin Taohua, however, understood it very clearly. If this Secret Technique is genuine, it’s no wonder a Celestial King would want to seize it.

The Great Cave Heaven is already the limit of human cultivation, but it is not the limit for the Secret Spirit.

Humans in the Great Cave Heaven are constantly threatened by external Secret Spirits, and their situation is not as idyllic as ordinary people think.

Rather than saying that the Ten Celestial Kings are the masters of the Great Cave Heaven, it’s more accurate to say that they are merely its gatekeepers.

The real masters of the Great Cave Heaven are the Secret Spirits, and the power of human cultivators within the Great Cave Heaven is insignificant.

It was only because the Ten Celestial Kings used their power to carve out a small space within the Great Cave Heaven that human cultivators could have a foothold; otherwise, they would not have had the ability to stand in the Great Cave Heaven at all.

The top level of humanity is the Ten Celestial Kings, and even they find it hard to advance further.

And this Secret Technique actually provides a method above the Great Cave Heaven, so Jin Taohua’s shock is understandable.

"If I could cultivate this Secret Technique, wouldn’t I transcend the Ten Celestial Kings, and then it wouldn’t be hard to find and kill them all," Jin Taohua’s eyes flashed with killing intent.

"But this is a Dual Cultivation method; how am I supposed to cultivate it?" Jin Taohua pondered over this difficulty again.

A Dual Cultivation method naturally requires two people to practice, and she was all alone; having this Secret Technique would be useless.

Jin Taohua’s gaze fell on Chen Guan, pondering the origin of this Blood Spirit and why it was in the Blood Spirit Banner.

Was it already in the Blood Spirit Banner or just recently collected from the Celestial Void Palace?

It is unlikely it was previously in the Blood Spirit Banner. Although the banner contained an innumerable number of Blood Spirits, and it wouldn’t be possible for her to meet each one.

But she had used the Blood Spirit Banner in quite a few battles; if there were such a unique Blood Spirit, it would be impossible for her not to notice it at all.

"It seems likely it was just collected from the Celestial Void Palace, but how could a disciple of Celestial Void Palace be so weak? If it was truly collected from the Celestial Void Palace, there would only be one possibility." Jin Taohua looked at Chen Guan, with her gaze gradually softening.

She figured the Blood Spirit was so weak because it had been severely injured, weakening both its vitality and soul.

What kind of person, in the Celestial Void Palace, would be so weak?

The only possibility was a prisoner detained by the Celestial Void Palace, especially one who had been tortured so badly that their vitality and soul were nearly depleted.

Combining this with what Chen Guan had just said, Jin Taohua could judge that the Celestial King enemy Chen Guan mentioned was most likely the King of Palace from the Celestial Void Palace.

The King of Palace locked this person here and used every method to torture him to get this "Emperor’s Scripture" from him.

Unfortunately, fate had other plans, and what the King of Palace couldn’t obtain had inadvertently fallen into Jin Taohua’s hands.

The enemy of an enemy is not necessarily a friend, but Jin Taohua was in a good mood now, and she found Chen Guan much more agreeable.

"Let’s nourish him first; perhaps more information can be obtained." Jin Taohua’s heart moved, and another Blood Spirit appeared, flying towards Chen Guan.

Chen Guan saw Jin Taohua summon another Blood Spirit that pounced on him and thought that Jin Taohua intended to silence him after crossing the river.

But who would have thought that when the Blood Spirit was in mid-air, Jin Taohua slapped it, causing a burst of blood light to shatter its body into countless particles that surged towards Chen Guan.