CHAPTER 448: CHAPTER 294 VOID_2

In short, just now he used one finger to pinch a Blood Puppet Virtual Machine, actively infected himself with the Heavenly Demon Virus, and tentatively ran this thing to see what exactly the Heavenly Demon was.

Hmm... It’s nothing.

To put it directly, the ’Heavenly Demon’ data cannot be run using the Blood God’s Son system.

A huge mass of chaotic, unrecognizable, incomprehensible gibberish, fills the pile of information in front of him, piercing through the firewall, quickly covering and merging the underlying code, completely rewriting and distorting the Blood Puppet Virtual Machine into meaningless fragments.

It’s not functional data, nor does it contain anything decipherable. The only part Chen Xuantian could understand was the emotion relayed back after the Blood Puppet contacted the Heavenly Demon.

Chaos, bewilderment, void, indescribable, unintelligible, incomprehensible.

Ultimately, all the unknown transforms into negative thoughts, becoming a direct reaction to the imminent obliteration and removal of one’s own existence.

Fear, fear, fear

Swallowed by fear, no other thoughts remain, directly plunging into an abyss of unfathomable depths.

Fear, until the end

Fear, until the apocalypse

"Boom!!"

Heavenly thunder descended, turning everything to ashes.

The white beard charred, the black beard turning to gray ash.

Kongsang Mountain, a land of deathly silence, almost the entire sect exterminated.

To be on the safe side, Chen Xuantian raised his hand, transforming it into countless Blood Blades, wildly hacking at the flying ash, smashing the remnants of the Heavenly Demon to smithereens and scattering them to the wind.

Then, with a flash, he transformed directly into a Blood Blade, slicing into the white-bearded man’s forehead, inspecting the Divine Court to verify no remnants of the Heavenly Demon remained.

Thus, the white-bearded man’s eyes flashed red, spewing ash from his mouth and nose, trembling as he stood up from the ashes of his disciple.

After all, he is an old Divinity Transformation cultivator; this Dao Body is indeed solid enough to endure this.

Chen Xuantian succeeded in a Body Seizing attempt for the first time, thanks to the heavily damaged Dao Body, severely diminished cultivation level, shattered Daoist Heart, and his comatose state, with perhaps less than ten years of life remaining.

Chen Xuantian didn’t need to refine him into a puppet; he merely controlled him like a marionette, backtracking through the white-bearded man’s memories. Then, he searched the ruins of the main hall and, under the shrine previously suppressed by the Xuan Nu Statue, found a Stone Box.

Chen Xuantian saw the Stone Box was sealed with a talisman from Kongsang Mountain and attempted to peel it off. Unexpectedly, the talisman released a burst of divine light, almost ejecting the Blood God’s Son from the Dao Body.

With this, Chen Xuantian understood, and swiftly fetched Little Yuanying as a tool person.

"Master, master, master eunuch..."

"Don’t be afraid, it’s alright now, come, receive the inheritance."

"Hmm..."

Soothingly patting his head to calm his emotions, Little Yuanying wiped away tears and opened the Stone Box.

Sure enough, only the true inheritor of the Kongsang Mountain master-disciple line was qualified to open this box. It seemed that this Primordial Spirit Talisman was some kind of identity and authorization verification program.

Chen Xuantian opened the box to see, indeed finding a heap of booklets and jade scrolls inside, not only containing the true inheritance of the Kongsang Mountain line but also the Primordial Spirit Secret Techniques of the Ancient Taoist Sect.

As Little Yuanying said, these secret techniques recorded the inheritance according to the Ancient Taoist Sect’s tradition.

And these methods from the Ancient Taoist Sect were categorized using the methods Refining Essence to Qi, Refining Qi and Transforming God, Refining God and Returning to Void, Refining Void and Unity to differentiate realms. Surprisingly, Kongsang Mountain had the entire attainment of scripture talisman techniques up to Refining God and Returning to Void, worthy of being an ancient Dao hidden within the secluded mountains.

Upon flipping through roughly, these ancient Taoist secret techniques were quite interesting, especially when compared to modern methods, appearing vastly different.

Later on, those unexplored realms made it difficult for Chen Xuantian to speak carelessly, but that one ’Refining Qi and Transforming God’ corresponded to the four realms of Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, and Divinity Transformation.

This doesn’t mean the ’Refining Qi and Transforming God’ of ancient cultivators was very simple and rapid, overcoming a realm in one leap. Actually, if looking at cultivation speed, ’Refining Qi and Transforming God’ roughly required several hundred years of cultivation, only that each stage, with the evolution of modern methods, and sect inheritance differences, experienced many derived changes, splitting into four minor realms, each capable of giving rise to divergent paths.

On the contrary, ’Refining Essence to Qi’ corresponded only to the Qi Refining stage. Out of curiosity, Chen Xuantian took a closer look and thus compared the differences between ancient and modern Qi Refining techniques, understanding that indeed, with the advancement of times, ancient methods became obsolete, replaced by modern methods.

After all, the ancients didn’t have a complete understanding of meridian operation and Qi acupoint distribution, only feeling their way out, inevitably making oversights and errors, progressing slowly little by little. According to ancient methods, ’Refining Essence to Qi’ would at least need decades of polishing, and various secrets were also esoteric and difficult to comprehend, explaining couldn’t. Some might barely develop Qi Sensation in their seventies or eighties, at which time they’re half buried in the ground, not even finishing Foundation Establishment, yet still cultivate immortality.

However, over the years, with the Mystic Sect’s research and refinement on Qi Refining methods, now the Taiji Realm people’s root bone meridian Qi refining methods have been thoroughly developed by the Mystic Sect to perfection. Fundamentally, various spirit root Dao veins have corresponding Qi Refining Methods, and various breathing refining Qi methods have become integrated, included in the Daoist Collection.

Thus, the efficiency of Qi Refining greatly increased, so that the Mystic Sect’s Dao Seeds could generally achieve Refining Essence to Qi and Foundation Establishment success within ten years, and therefore the division and demand for the refinement of the ’Refining Essence to Qi’ stage naturally lost much of its significance.

Conversely, the lack of a unified correct approach for ’Refining Qi and Transforming God’ instead led to the emergence of increasingly diverse cultivation variants, ultimately because the Mystic Sect lineage faced a lack of progression after reaching ’Divine Transformation’.