"This Hall of All Laws is truly miraculous!"
The bottleneck that had plagued him for half a year had shattered as naturally as breathing. After personally experiencing the wonders of the candle fla, Qi Yun couldn’t help but sigh in admiration.
By borrowing Wei Zhen’s comprehension, he had finally broken through to the Qi Refining Fifth Layer.
After calming his joyful emotions slightly, Qi Yun prepared to leave the Hall of All Laws.
But just as he was about to move.
Three cackling White Bone Skeletons suddenly flew out on their own, circling him chaotically like headless flies. The ghostly flas in their eye sockets flickered rapidly, emitting a clear warning.
"Hm? This is bad!"
Watching the White Bone Skeletons fly out for no reason, Qi Yun was stunned for a mont, then imdiately realized sothing was wrong.
The Skull Curse had an automatic defense chanism.
He must have been ambushed by so sort of covert attack, triggering this chanism. But the power targeting him was no ordinary one; the White Bone Skeletons couldn’t defend against it, which was why they could only circle him.
He snapped his head around to look at the bright yellow candle fla, his brows furrowed tightly.
’I was too careless!’
Although he couldn’t figure out what kind of attack he’d suffered, it was precisely this kind of invisible, intangible assault that was the most unsettling.
His eyes flickered. Qi Yun imdiately circulated his True Qi, sending it through every inch of his body in search of anything unusual.
However, after circulating his True Qi several tis, the feedback was that everything was normal. Qi Yun’s frown deepened.
’I’ve got it!’
With a flicker of thought, Qi Yun imdiately ford a Spell seal. A domineering, arrogant, scorching fire Qi erupted from his body.
"Li Fire falls to chaos, a demon’s thought the core.
By evil, the righteous is controlled; Bing and Ding are forged in reverse.
The heart’s fla incinerates the Dao; the Sword Demon is born.
Slaughter Heaven, sunder Earth; all creation burns as one!
Open!"
Chanting the Spell and letting out a low shout, violet-red Nanming Demon Fire, mixed with a blazing Sword Intent, instantly erupted from Qi Yun’s body, transforming him into the fiery, humanoid Sword Demon!
The Nanming Demon Fire is one of the seventy-three great flas of Heaven and Earth.
Its primary functions are to devour demons, transform the unnatural, and seize hearts and thoughts.
It specializes in burning away all that is false, illusory, and evil.
"There really is a problem!"
The instant he transford into the Nanming Sword Demon, Qi Yun imdiately sensed a trace of sothing strange within him.
This strangeness was not in his physical body.
It was hidden within the thoughts of his Sea of Consciousness.
It was a "thought" as small as a speck of dust, yet it shone brilliantly, as clear and bright as a diamond.
As if sensing Qi Yun’s gaze, the "thought" seed to possess a spiritual nature. Realizing it had been discovered, it imdiately tried to flee, about to vanish into the depths of his Sea of Consciousness in the blink of an eye.
"You think you can run?!"
With a cold snort, Qi Yun imdiately sent a wisp of Nanming Demon Fire into his Sea of Consciousness. It transford into a line of fire, shooting straight after the dust-sized "thought".
The Nanming Demon Fire was extrely fast, and inside Qi Yun’s own Sea of Consciousness, it caught up with the fleeing "thought" in just an instant.
The fla twisted, and in a flash, it ignited the "thought"—sothing hidden so deep it was utterly undetectable without specialized Techniques.
Violet-red firelight illuminated his Sea of Consciousness.
But the dust-sized "thought" was quite resilient. It burned for a full ten minutes before it was finally reduced to wisps of nothingness and dispersed.
The mont this "thought" was annihilated, a portion of the information it contained was naturally intercepted by Qi Yun.
"Outer Demon Contamination Path?
There’s a possession thod this abstract?"
After learning the full story behind the "thought" from the intercepted information, a strange, peculiar expression appeared on Qi Yun’s face.
The Outer Demon Contamination Path.
This was a possession Secret Skill created by the Holy Sect.
As everyone knows, even if a Qi Refining Cultivator uses every thod available—including but not limited to Elixirs, Spiritual Objects, and Secret Skills—their lifespan is capped at a hundred and thirty-six years.
This number is actually lower than that of so long-lived mortals.
But this is a number decreed by fate.
A fate that applies only to those who pursue Cultivation and seek the Dao!
If one cannot successfully reach Foundation Establishnt before this age, even the most powerful Qi Refining Great Perfection Cultivator can only resign themselves to their fate and enter the cycle of reincarnation.
So, to give a better chance to so Inner Mansion Disciples who had great potential but slightly poor luck, the Holy Sect created this Outer Demon Contamination Path thod.
After cultivating this possession thod, one can refine a "Heart Thought" from within themselves and turn it into a candle fla, which contains a portion of their own insights and comprehension.
As long as the candle fla ford from the "Heart Thought" is touched by another Cultivator who absorbs the insights within, the "Heart Thought" will silently slip into their Sea of Consciousness.
In the days that follow, this "Heart Thought" will subtly influence the host, guiding them down the original master’s cultivation path and absorbing power from them in the process.
Once the host reaches the original master’s Realm, the "Heart Thought" will leave the body, seek out the original master’s current incarnation, and help them wipe away the dust of their past life to rember their forr self.
"Abstract. Truly abstract.
This kind of possession thod, not to ntion the imnse ti it takes, what’s the point even if it succeeds and helps the original master recover their past life’s mories?
They’ll only have mories, not their Cultivation.
Do they really expect the Holy Sect to take them back as a disciple?
They’re more likely to end up in the talent market."
After reading about the effects of the Outer Demon Contamination Path, Qi Yun shook his head. This possession thod didn’t actually harm the host directly.
The real hidden danger was the imperceptible distortion of their future path in the Dao.
Having unraveled the darkness hidden within the Hall of All Laws, Qi Yun let out a small sigh of relief. No matter what, he finally felt a little more at ease.
Stabilizing his spirit, Qi Yun turned and walked toward the hall’s entrance, preparing to leave.
But he had only taken two steps before his pace began to slow, eventually coming to a complete stop.
Turning slightly, he glanced back at the rows of faintly burning candle flas lining the corridor behind him. A horrifying thought suddenly surfaced in his mind.
’The Hall of All Laws in the Outer Mansion stores the "Heart Thoughts" of Qi Refining Cultivators. Their Cultivation is still shallow, so their "Heart Thoughts" can only carry a small portion of their insights.
But what about the Hall of All Laws in the Inner Mansion?
Do they also store "Heart Thoughts" there? How much insight would they carry? In other words, could the "Heart Thoughts" there carry... sothing else?
’The Outer Demon Contamination Path has many flaws, but this is just the version that Outer Mansion Disciples practice.
Do the Inner Mansion True Cultivators practice this sa version?
Or perhaps... this Hall of All Laws is just a testing ground.
A place specifically designed to test the feasibility of the Outer Demon Contamination Path.
After all... this possession thod was created by the Holy Sect itself...’ A thin film of cold sweat broke out on Qi Yun’s back at the thought.
’If I hadn’t discovered this secret in ti...
...wouldn’t I, carrying this "Heart Thought," have beco just another sample in this bizarre experint?’
Forcibly calming the tremors in his heart, Qi Yun closed his eyes and took a long, deep breath. After a long mont, he slowly opened them again, his composure restored.
’The Holy Sect is full of pitfalls.
Big pitfalls hiding smaller ones, and the small ones are hidden deep.
From now on, I have to be much more careful.’
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