"The true identity of the Heart Demon Clan remains a mystery even within the Abyss. Their two innate abilities, Soul Mastery and Control Fate, are not known in their precise effects."
Lu Qingshan shuddered all over, and then rembered sothing, hastily searching through his mustard seed storage.
A mont later, a piece of black jade appeared in his hand.
In Jian Luo Royal City, under the identity of Qing Ge, he had gathered much intel, including records by the War Demon Clan about the other Seven Great Holy Demon Clans.
"The Heart Demon Clan has two top-tier Demon Lords, known as the Soul Venerable and the Yu Venerable."
"During the first Dao-Demon War, both these Demon Lords were active.
The Soul Venerable took the form of a dragon-like beast, imnsely powerful.
The Yu Venerable also appeared in the form of a beast, but vastly different from the Soul Venerable, being a creature with a sheep’s body and human face, eyes under its arms, tiger teeth, and human hands."
"Why do they have different forms despite being part of the Heart Demon Clan? This troubled many, but now it seems there’s an adequate explanation."
"Three ghostly soul shadows fly out, with one rging into the body of a fierce beast, allowing it to be completely controlled.
Thus, the reason the Soul Venerable and Yu Venerable manifest as different beast forms is that these are not their true bodies, but rely puppets controlled by their soul shadows."
"The Rinsing Spirit demonic cultivators, hidden among the Human Race for ten thousand years without being discovered.
The reason for the seamless deception is that these Rinsing Spirit demonic cultivators are identical to human cultivators."
"One or two might have special tricks, much like Lin Yao’s Phantom Body Divine Vein.
But to have it appear on a large scale could only an one thing: this ability to disguise as humans is actually the Heart Demon Clan’s innate divine ability."
"It must be one of either Soul Mastery or Control Fate..." Lu Qingshan murmured, his thoughts racing faster and becoming clearer.
His eyes gradually brightened, "So, suppose these soul shadows are not just simply occupying the physical bodies of fierce beasts, controlling them, but instead are universal to all living beings?"
Indeed, the fierce beasts and Heart Demon Clan aren’t the sa race, much like humans aren’t either.
To the Heart Demon Clan, fierce beasts and humans may well just be distinctions like lions and tigers.
If they can control beasts as puppets, why not humans?
"No, it shouldn’t be puppets," Lu Qingshan shook his head, recalling the unbelievable final scene in the cloud aura, "when that shadow fell, the black dragon and the blood phoenix controlled by the soul shadow perished along with it."
"And you can clearly feel that once those fierce beasts’ bodies are possessed by soul shadows, they beco exceptionally lively, very human-like, unlike lifeless puppets.
More importantly, the gaze of these fierce beasts is identical to their master."
The most representative being the giant one-horned lizard and its "master," its cunning eyes like a spitting image, left a profound impression on Lu Qingshan.
He then rembered sothing previously overlooked, a trivial matter.
During the Seven Domains Voyage of Wisdom, Chang Geng Sect Leader’s Underworld Cultivator identity was exposed, and finally, the Rinsing Spirit Sect executed Chang Geng Sect Leader in front of its own cultivators and the Great Xia’s King Qing i and Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master, making an example.
It’s hard for anyone to fake death before the Pavilion Master of Heavenly Secrets without being detected.
So, Chang Geng Sect Leader must be as dead as dead can be, impossible to fake.
Back then, Lu Qingshan had marveled at the Rinsing Spirit Sect’s boldness, daring to execute their own sect leader decisively.
Now, reflecting upon it, Chang Geng Sect Leader must have been a Heart Demon, and as the most noble bloodline of the Incessant Domain, how could it be killed so casually?
Unless, Chang Geng Sect Leader was just one of the creatures controlled by the Heart Demon’s three souls.
"So, once the true body dies, the creatures controlled by the soul follow it to death. But the creatures controlled by the soul dying doesn’t greatly affect the true body?" Lu Qingshan shuddered.
Because he seed to have uncovered the Heart Demon Clan’s mysterious innate ability.
No, it was the Heart Demon Clan’s Achilles’ heel he had uncovered.
"If that’s the case, the Heart Demon Clan hiding their bloodline’s innate divine ability so deeply has a reasonable explanation."
This secret concerns the survival of an entire race; what race would dare to reveal it to outsiders?
The brief Cloud Qi Light Shadow Map revealed two crucial pieces of information to Lu Qingshan: first, the Heart Demon Clan has an innate ability, possessing three soul shadows, and via these three soul shadows, they can control three creatures.
The Rinsing Spirit demonic cultivators are thus one of the Heart Demon’s three souls.
This, combined with various information, can be confird with almost no error.
Second, the relationship between the Heart Demon and the soul should be: if the true body dies, the soul perishes with it; but if the soul perishes, it does not affect the true body.
This is still a hypothesis, but Lu Qingshan is 90% sure it’s the case.
Lu Qingshan slowly raised his eyes, gazing at the frozen Cloud Qi Map.
"The problem now is, where exactly is this place, and where did the Cloud Qi Map co from?"
"Is soone purposely revealing the Heart Demon Clan’s secrets to ?"
"I’ve co here tracking the disturbance in my sea of consciousness caused by the sword qi spirit’s abnormal fluctuation. The words ’Imperial Heaven’ are inscribed on the black basalt at the ancient temple’s entrance, and the first story told is also about Imperial Heaven..."
"Thus, this place should be related to Imperial Heaven... Is it Imperial Heaven revealing these to ?"
"But how does it know so many secrets? Why reveal them to ?"
Wait?!
Lu Qingshan suddenly rembered sothing.
Back then, in the Dragon Gate Secret Realm at the bottom of Namucuo Lake, he encountered two Underworld Cultivators who snuck in to break the seal on the Holy Beast.
Thinking back, the existence they referred to as the Holy Beast ought to be "Imperial Heaven."
Because that defining feature of sun and moon eyes cannot be faked.
"Imperial Heaven, Holy Beast..."
"So after ’Little Imperial Heaven’ left its native world, it didn’t head to the Human Race’s Sky Do Heaven but presumably to the Demon Race’s Abyss? Or perhaps the Incessant Domain?"
"Then for unknown reasons, it beca the Holy Beast among the Demons of the Incessant Domain... and learned the Heart Demon Clan’s secrets?"
It sounds quite incredible.
After all, it’s not easy for outsiders to crack the Heart Demon Clan’s secrets.
But evidently, Imperial Heaven is no ordinary creature.
It was a creature born at the dawn of the world, evolving through the consumption of the sun and moon.
Such a creature possibly having so unknown mystical ans is not surprising.
"As for why it would reveal these to , could it be related to my sword qi spirit?"
Lu Qingshan speculated.
This was the only possibility he could think of.
His sword qi spirit, modeled after Imperial Heaven, was the only link between him and Imperial Heaven.
Lu Qingshan’s thoughts raced.
It was then that an anomaly reoccurred in this void, interrupting his contemplation.
The previously clear skies now suddenly had a sun and moon rise, blinking out in an instant.
A blazing crimson fla and a touch of faint gold moonfla shot forth from the sun and moon.
This scene mimicked the final scene of the first story.
The two lights fell upon Lu Qingshan with unimaginable speed.
They regarded Lu Qingshan’s Dustless Fighting Chamber Domain as nothing, directly rging into his body.
Then, they continued straight into his sea of consciousness, through the dazzlingly radiant ten-zhang-wide Heavenly Heart Abbot Domain, in a blink, penetrating into his sword qi spirit—that dazed green snake.
"Hmm?"
As the fla and moonfla rged into the green snake, the sun and moon imprints in its eyes suddenly brightened, gaining a touch of spiritual nature.
Subsequently, a vast volu of information appeared in Lu Qingshan’s soul.
Vast and ancient, esoteric and mysterious.
Upon receiving the information, Lu Qingshan’s consciousness instantly stopped in shock.
This is... the inheritance mory!
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