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Chapter 267 - Chapter 267 Chapter 174 Blood God Secret Method

Chapter 267: Chapter 174: Blood God Secret Method Chapter 267: Chapter 174: Blood God Secret Method The Southern Desolate has always been a hotbed for non-righteous people.

In some sense, it’s also been a place where cultivators of all trades flourish and compete.

However, since a thousand years ago, with the invasion of evil qi, evil spirits have become increasingly rampant.

Some daring Southern Desolate cultivators incorporated evil techniques into their secret arts, creating numerous methods for rapid advancement that harm others to benefit themselves.

The cultivation environment in the Southern Desolate began to deteriorate.

Regions under the care of major sects were better off, allowing ordinary people to huddle together for survival.

In areas beyond the reach of the sects, ordinary people, theoretically a sustainable resource, were overfished to the point of depletion.

Even the slightly larger cultivation forces understand this principle.

But the problem is the chaos in the Southern Desolate.

After the proliferation of rapid advancement secret techniques.

If you choose sustainable development, you’re just cultivating fodder for others.

No one knows if the ordinary city they protect will be harvested by others in the next second, using the resources to attack and eradicate one’s own sect.

Even the large sects have various hidden worries, fearing that some day a catastrophe would occur and their Dharma Vein would be severed.

So, in the midst of such chaos that persisted for hundreds of years to this day.

The followers of the Incense Fire Divine Path barely survive by fostering ordinary people, and they always have to be on the lookout for attacks from other sects or fellow practitioners competing for resources.

The major sects have united to control ordinary people using the workshops as strongholds, much like what’s happening in the Central Domain today.

They nominally protect but in reality, they select disciples and acquire resources for cultivation spiritual objects.

Every sect trades covertly with other non-righteous factions.

Exchanging the population for various materials.

Ordinary people in the Southern Desolate no longer have imperial families or great family clans, unless they are detected to have a Spirit Root.

Otherwise, they are the most common hard currency in the Southern Desolate!

And now.

Forget ordinary people; even low-tier cultivators might become someone else’s fodder.

According to the Main Priest Yuan Mu.

A few unparalleled geniuses have emerged in the demon path of the Southern Desolate, not only unbeatable in battles within the same realm.

But they have also modified demon techniques.

Making the already rapid demon techniques even faster and more powerful.

The only problem is that it requires a large number of ordinary people and even cultivators for cultivation.

This has greatly impacted the same people-nourished Incense Fire Divine Path.

In terms of efficiency, those who play with faith are nowhere near the demon path!

If it weren’t for the many madmen within the demon path, causing the major sects to unite and besiege them from time to time.

The territories outside the major sects of the Southern Desolate would probably no longer have any land for the Incense Fire Divine Path to barely survive.

Hearing the Main Priest’s grievances, Su Ping understood why Little True Man Mu and the others had such an expression when they mentioned the Incense Fire Divine Path.

It turns out the Southern Desolate is in a stage of dog-eat-dog survival.

Perhaps anyone with a bit of capability and ambition is considering how to break free, right?

However, the timing of these Incense Fire Divine Path visitors doesn’t add up.

After the heavy snowfall came the great turmoil of evil spirits.

Su Ping isn’t clear about other territories, but in the Gold and Wood domains, ordinary people have long been diminished to one-tenth.

The Earth Character Domain, which is close to the Ten Thousand Mountains, also seemed nearly deserted when Su Ping went to the Guardian Immortal City last time.

The remaining two domains couldn’t escape the snow disaster or the Evil Qi Tide.

Su Ping is equally skeptical about how many people they have left.

Adding it all up.

Plus the Great Golden Light Temple is clearly trying to grab followers.

With the Immortal Sects out of reach, they’ve probably already started massing people to build Buddha City on their own territory.

Su Ping realized that practicing the Incense Fire Divine Path in the Immortal Cultivation World… probably has no future!

If the Incense Fire Divine Path lineage wants to outdo their predecessors, perhaps their only chance is to hand over the entire inheritance to him and let him further it in another place!

Later, after obtaining various key information on activating the Inheritance Jade Scroll from the Main Priest.

A thought flashed in Su Ping’s mind, and he resealed him in the ice coffin within the Array Map.

Su Ping didn’t release him into the Pot Cave Heaven.

The Main Priest did not accept the invitation and would be forcibly expelled back to the Immortal Cultivation World once he left the Array Map.

Even if he was willing, Su Ping would not want it.

From Su Ping’s perspective, aside from not delving into evil techniques and delivering his mind to the Evil God, this Main Priest’s actions were hardly different from those of an Evil Cultivator!

His loyalty was something Su Ping absolutely couldn’t trust.

However, the information and knowledge he provided could be discerned and studied.

Su Ping spent a day sifting through the Inheritance Jade Scrolls from these Blood God Sect cultivators.

He discovered an improved Paperman Secret Technique that could be deployed in battle formations.

In the storage bag left by the dead Black and White Children, he also found their Soul Refining Secret Technique.

This Soul Refining Secret Technique could absorb the Divine Souls of all kinds of living beings and merge them into one’s own body, thereby transforming one’s own soul into a self-aware Evil Spirit.

The ultimate aim was to refine it into a Ghostly God of the Underworld, capable of opening up a secret Underworld Realm, becoming a Yin Heavenly Son.

But this is merely viable in theory.

If actually performed, looking at the state of the Black and White Children, one could see that not only the soul had mutated, but the body had also become rotten, requiring the practice of secret methods to constantly replace those decaying parts.

Although there were indeed techniques worth learning, allowing rapid progress and requiring fewer spiritual objects.

Su Ping himself would not practice them but noted them down, waiting for someone destined.

As for the Incense Fire Divine Path Su Ping was most interested in.

Su Ping found that the Inheritance Jade Scrolls all recorded how to contact the Blood God and thus obtain the true inherited knowledge through communion with the Blood God.

The Blood God of the Blood God Sect is not an Evil God but an Incense Fire True God consciously crafted by the sect starting from the first-generation Sect Hierarch a thousand years ago.

It is said that to forge this god who protects the sect, several generations of Sect Hierarchs and elders chose to blood sacrifice themselves at the end of their lives, letting their Divine Souls enter the embrace of the Blood God and become part of this deity.

Over time, this Incense Fire True God possessed increasingly peculiar abilities and took on the heavy responsibility of the sect’s inheritance.

Still, it was no secret that one’s self-consciousness would surely be influenced by the Blood God during the inheritance process.

Fortunately, Su Ping was least afraid of such spiritual contamination.

Returning to the cave in the Immortal Cultivation World.

Su Ping went straight to Cloud Mountain Workshop and reported his discovery of the Southern Desolate Incense Fire Divine Path to Little True Man Mu.

Afterward, he purchased some materials.

Instead of heading back to Nine Leaf Mountain Workshop, he found another secluded mountain forest.

There, he set up a hidden formation and completed the altar.

Using the Memory Wand, Su Ping summoned the Memory Illusion of Elvin, the Fire Knight.

Then, he entered the body of Fire Knight Elvin.

Su Ping took a deep breath and silently chanted the invocation spell in the way prescribed by the Inheritance Jade Scroll, using the mouth of Fire Knight Elvin.

He lit the incense candles and placed them in the incense burner provided by the Main Priest.

The golden incense burner that was half the height of a man emitted a red glow.

The three incense candles began to burn rapidly, filling the surroundings with a light mist-like incense fire qi.

In the perception of Fire Knight Elvin, as Su Ping.

As the incense fire qi rose, a power descended from the heavens and enveloped the altar.

Then the Fire Knight standing at the altar looked around and saw the world bathed in a blood-red hue.

Even the sky bore a single eye that curiously observed him.

Yet outside the altar, Su Ping saw nothing unusual at all.

He couldn’t help but marvel in secret, suspecting that Fire Knight Elvin was dragged into a realm resembling an array space.

To receive the inheritance, Fire Knight Elvin’s body had no blessings and no Evil Exorcism Blessing.

However, Su Ping wasn’t too worried, not just because of Fire Knight Elvin’s Unyielding Will.

Even if something did go wrong, it would only be this Memory Illusion that was contaminated.

His real body had enough time to take a Purification Potion and leave the Immortal Cultivation World.

“…”

In the blood-colored world, the single eye sized up Elvin, the Fire Knight.

After a few seconds, when Su Ping thought something unexpected would happen.

The blood-colored single eye in the sky closed and vanished.

Instead, a beam of blood-colored light enveloped him.

Then, the whispering voices of at least fifty or sixty different people reached his ears.

Upon closer listening, it became apparent that these people were all discussing knowledge related to the Incense Fire Divine Path.

As their voices became faster and more urgent.

The ground turned to mud.

Soon the surroundings turned into a sea of blood, making Fire Knight Elvin feel as though he was soaking in a blood pool.

The incense candles on the incense burner slowly reached their end.

Then, from the incense ashes in the incense burner, strands of blood emerged and were inserted into the brow and shoulders of Fire Knight Elvin.

As these blood strands entered the body.

Memories began to surface in the mind of Fire Knight Elvin.

A strange contamination appeared in the consciousness sea of Fire Knight Elvin.

But it could not invade the Fire Knight’s Unyielding Will no matter what.

Caught in a stalemate, a blood strand suddenly broke.

And with it, a segment of memory was absorbed by Fire Knight Elvin.

It was the memory of the very first Sect Hierarch of the Blood God Sect.

Su Ping, sharing with Fire Knight Elvin, saw the Sect Hierarch, who was at least a Golden Core, discovering the Blood Jade in a meteorite from outer space.

Then he began to build the prototype of the Blood God with the Blood Jade as a base and the divine thoughts of billions of Incense Fire as a body.

In the end, he even tried to replace the body of the Blood God with his own thoughts, to become a living True God.

Clearly, he failed, and his entire being became the foundation of the Blood God.

Even his memories became a part of the inheritance.

However, the number of people who could withstand so much contamination to see these memories… probably wasn’t large, right?

As he thought this, Su Ping noticed that a second blood strand had also broken.

Another segment of memory emerged.

It was of a long-robed cultivator holding a magic sword that appeared in the memory.

This man was not originally from the Blood God Path but an elder of a large sect in the Southern Desolate!

However, this Sword Cultivator of heavenly prowess… after slaying an elder of the Blood God Sect, came into contact with the Blood God and was corrupted by it, becoming an elder of the Blood God Sect himself.

It was a rather peculiar exchange, to say the least.

From the memory of this elder, apart from more Divine Path Techniques and various Secret Techniques.

There was also the Magic Sword Secret Technique originally possessed by the elder.

This came as a pleasant surprise to Su Ping.

Meanwhile.

In the Main Altar of the Blood God Sect.

In the incense fire qi-filled secret chamber.

The Sect Hierarch who was cultivating suddenly awoke.

With widened blood-red eyes, his body revealed dense, blood-red tentacles:

“Who is it!”

“Since when did my sect produce such an unparalleled genius!”

“To think they have disturbed the Blood God Origin!”