The smile on the White Sun Holy Mother's face grew more intense, indicating a genuine sense of joy.

When he stepped forward and placed a hand on Yu Ziqing's head, his gaze was deep, as if he saw Yu Ziqing's Yin God. His smile widened even more.

Yu Ziqing was confined in a felt tent, his body weighed down by two iron balls as heavy as mountains.

The White Sun Holy Mother exited the tent to personally inspect, while Liu Xin prepared the sacrificial altar.

"Is everything ready?"

"Reporting to the Holy Mother, it has been ready for a long time."

"Good, let's start tomorrow then."

Beneath the ice and snow, a massive underground space had been excavated at some unknown time.

Inside was a sacrificial altar made of white jade, with runes formed by fresh blood spread around the altar.

Yu Ziqing was brought to the altar, his limbs bound in a large spread-eagle position, while Liu Xin sketched eerie runes on Yu Ziqing's body using a blood-like substance devoid of any bloody smell.

Three days later, the White Sun Holy Mother arrived in grand attire, looking at Yu Ziqing with satisfaction.

"Are you trying to force me to worship you through some ceremony?"

"No, no, no, you have already mastered the Yin God, and the Yin God has the form of a hungry ghost. You're a Fourth-tier body cultivator, while I'm only Fifth Tier, barely achieving the out-of-body state, so naturally, I can't force such a cultivator to worship me."

"Then what is this ritual for?"

"Of course, to take everything from you."

With victory in sight, the White Sun Holy Mother was in high spirits.

"Do you intend to descend upon me?"

"No, I can't descend upon you. I just want possession, complete possession. I want to take your physical body, your Yin God, everything you have."

"Can you still perform possession?" Yu Ziqing seemed very shocked.

"Why wouldn't I be able to? I descend upon this person, I become this person. I can also be seen as a normal cultivator, and this body is quite spiritual. I'm already in the Fifth Tier, Refining God out-of-body realm. Why wouldn't I be able to possess?"

The White Sun Holy Mother looked at Yu Ziqing's astonished look and smiled very happily.

In recent days, this Qing Ziyu felt only he knew how to walk the Hungry Ghost Dao, showing no fear and talking continuously without stop. Was it that he was finally afraid now?

The White Sun Holy Mother simply didn't believe what Yu Ziqing was saying was true, without any errors. Besides, a higher-level Dharma Method couldn't be fully articulated by Yu Ziqing's current strength.

So from the beginning, the White Sun Holy Mother hadn't intended to interrogate.

Just like how Yu Ziqing hadn't intended to interrogate him from the beginning, knowing he wouldn't reveal anything.

The White Sun Holy Mother flipped his hand to reveal a rusty sword, playing with it in his palm. He looked at Yu Ziqing, asking out of curiosity.

"Is this the sword you used to kill me the last time?"

"I've seen many things, yet still couldn't see anything special about this ordinary rusty sword that allowed you to erupt with power far beyond your realm."

"However, your reliance is now in my hands. Do you have any other support?"

Seeing Yu Ziqing not responding and closing his eyes as if grappling with the emerging power of the Yin God, the White Sun Holy Mother smiled, dismissing it, and turned to make final preparations.

A moment later, Liu Xin conducted the ritual, using the Blood Sacrifice Method to bolster its power.

Blood ignited, setting aflame all the blood-colored runes, strange energy surged, impacting the White Sun Holy Mother.

The White Sun Holy Mother stood before Yu Ziqing, and under the infusion of those powers, his flesh began to burn, everything in his physical body transformed into nourishment for the Yin God.

When his flesh completely withered, his fontanel suddenly exploded, and a Yin God emitting white light rushed out from there.

At the same time, the Soul Suppressing Nails pinned on Yu Ziqing's fontanel were also pulled out by Liu Xin.

The Yin God of the White Sun Holy Mother seized the opportunity, rushing from Yu Ziqing's fontanel into Yu Ziqing's Sea of Consciousness.

Simultaneously, Liu Xin re-nailed the Soul Suppressing Nails into the fontanel to prevent Yu Ziqing's Yin God from escaping.

Yu Ziqing's Yin God sat in a lotus position, hands forming seals, runes flickering rapidly and continuously appearing.

When his Yin God opened his eyes, he saw a White Sun Holy Mother a hundred times larger, surrounded by white light, pressing toward him.

The White Sun Holy Mother reached out with a hand, grasped his Yin God, and stuffed it into his mouth, swallowing Yu Ziqing's Yin God.

Complete possession officially began from this moment on.

The Yin God of the White Sun Holy Mother began to incessantly dissolve Yu Ziqing's Yin God, intending to absorb all the power and completely devour it.

However, at that moment, circles of halos appeared above Yu Ziqing's Yin God's head, layers upon layers densely stacked.

Runes emerged around, layering over each other.

Tendrils of black gas emanated from Yu Ziqing's Yin God, continuously expanding outward.

Yu Ziqing looked around at everything, suddenly breaking into a grin.

The most thorough possession had begun and couldn't be stopped, unless the possessor succeeded.

The last sentence was somewhat imprecise; there had to be one to die between the possessor and the possessed.

He had waited a long time for this moment.

Willing to risk his own life as bait.

This entire act was exhausting, fortunately, he was weak enough for the other side to be so bold.

Had he been stronger, such a scenario might never have occurred.

Despite returning with Lao Yang's guidance, he seemed to have learned no secret techniques over this past year.

Despite having only a few dozen ordinary orifices left to develop, he still took a year to complete them all.

Because he was focusing on other things very diligently.

He had layered runes defending against possession to a total of twenty thousand four hundred and eighty layers.

Soul rings defending against possession, protecting consciousness, were also layered to that number.

Besides these two stackable protective measures, he had practiced six additional defensive possession methods known to the Langya Institute.

Initially layering five seals a month, he eventually became proficient enough to add several hundred layers a day.

He dared not venture out until mastering the Yin God.

Only upon mastering the Yin God, where self-awareness coalesced, could an attempt like the White Sun Holy Mother's complete brainwashing be effectively thwarted unless his Yin God was directly shattered.

And without thorough brainwashing, the White Sun Holy Mother simply couldn't descend upon him.

What the White Sun Holy Mother desired could only be achieved through known methods of possession.

After killing the White Sun Holy Mother once, Yu Ziqing deliberately gave him an eager reason.

To walk the Hungry Ghost Dao with a human form was reason enough.

The White Sun Holy Mother had once been backlashed by the power of hungry ghost incense; he was most aware of the power gathered by those hungry ghosts.

Without need for nurturing, immensely numerous, even effortlessly generating more hungry ghosts was a temptation the White Sun Holy Mother could never resist.

So when the White Sun Holy Mother found he couldn't absorb the power of hungry ghost incense yet discovered someone practicing the Hungry Ghost Dao,

by his conduct over countless years and persistent actions, his single thought would always turn to seizing.

Take everything of Yu Ziqing, then use the cultivation of the Hungry Ghost Dao as a foundation to absorb the power of the hungry ghosts' incense.

This was a shortcut.

Because he would neither know nor think of it.

Yu Ziqing completely blocked any path to using the power of hungry ghost incense to prevent any loopholes.

Not to mention the path of the hungry ghost, even the hungry ghosts themselves or their king could never absorb the power of incense offered to them.

With such people, with the White Sun Holy Mother's countless years of methods and thoughts, it was entirely impossible for him to consider these matters. Even if told, he wouldn't believe the King of Hungry Ghosts could forfeit that easily accessible power.

People are different; what the White Sun Holy Mother took for granted, Yu Ziqing disdainfully rejected, disdaining to gain power by exploiting those pathetic hungry ghosts.

A power with foundations not within himself.

No one knew these things.

From the start, Yu Ziqing understood that stepping out of Jinlan Mountain meant eventually facing his current predicament.

He only left one path for the White Sun Holy Mother to take, and the White Sun Holy Mother would only see that single shortcut.

Yu Ziqing thought, having killed the White Sun Holy Mother before, even with the same method to kill him again, he had no desire to repeat it.

He wanted to eradicate the White Sun Holy Mother once and for all, thoroughly wipe out the Evil Dao.

Suffering, taking risks, acting crazy were all worthwhile.

For how could you guard against thieves for a thousand days, let alone spend a lifetime on guard?

He would have lapses in vigilance; so would those around him.

Just like this time, Yu Ziqing failed to anticipate someone from outside the White Sun Evil Cult coming to capture him.

If he didn't eradicate the White Sun Evil Cult once and for all, countless future repetitions of such events awaited him.

Every day, someone with no limits would secretly watch him, watch those around him.

Just the thought made Yu Ziqing feel misery worse than death, knowing every future day would carry flaws.

So, even if he had to die now, he would utterly kill them.

Kill them!

Yu Ziqing gritted his teeth; all eight defensive possession methods he had mastered intensively, the two stackable methods layered over twenty thousand times each.

In addition, he had practiced thirteen reverse possession methods, each one studied with focused intent.

Especially one which he incorporated into the cultivation of the Hungry Ghost Dao.

Such complete possession would take everything from the opponent, from the flesh to the divine soul, even memories, everything.

That reverse possession would counter in exactly the same way.

Now, halos and runes layered over each other, resisting infiltration and devouring.

The forceful energy translating into numerous tendrils from the accumulation of Hungry Ghost Dao's power, instead piercing back into the invading white light.

Reverse possession, counter-devouring.

Runes collapsed continuously, and halos shattered one by one.