[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-becoming-a-god-through-horror":3,"chapter-becoming-a-god-through-horror-becoming-a-god-through-horror-chapter-62":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Becoming a God Through Horror",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2273605,4441,"Chapter 62: Heaven-Offending, Humanity-Corrupting: Foreign Arts","becoming-a-god-through-horror-chapter-62",62,"\u003Cp>After finishing the Three Laws, the next is the more important section on Strange Arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three Strange Arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>① Beast-Making Art: An extremely cruel and dark technique, originally developed by heretical practitioners who combined Daoist spells with shamanic rituals for profit, making it ideal for human trafficking. It later spread among the underworld and was adopted and heavily used by the beggar faction within the gang of thieves, beggars, and prostitutes, becoming a forbidden art rivaling the secret technique of Harvesting Life and Dissecting Flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To enter this art, one needs one animal hide: break the victim’s joints, and if necessary, poison their voice box; then pour hot water over their skin, apply secret medicine, and cover it with the animal hide. Keep the person as an animal for a period until their flesh fuses deeply with the hide and they adapt to animal movement—then it is complete. But this is only the method of those without cultivation. (Low success rate; failures die.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the proficient and master levels, the practitioner must possess cultivation or sacrifice years of their lifespan. At the master level, only a small amount of animal fur is needed to transform a living human into an animal. (Commonly used on women and children.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Note 1: This art is profoundly against heaven and nature—it is a demonic technique. If discovered by orthodox sects, they will unite to destroy the practitioner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Note 2: This art violates cosmic order; if there is an underworld, it will deplete one’s moral virtue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Note 3: Even if mastered, the transformed being must never drink water—contact with water breaks the transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis stared at this art, momentarily dazed—as if warning inheritors, this page of inheritance contained not just text, but also hallucinatory sequences of its process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood, screams, wails, flesh tearing from bone, limbs shattering, dog-men…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bloodiness and cruelty were so extreme that even Louis had to take several deep breaths to recover, feeling deeply oppressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ancient human traffickers… no wonder they were executed. Deserved it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis could guess why the Folk Canon rendered this as imagery: after all, this was the Left-Path Folk Canon, not a demonic scripture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis rubbed his temples, took a moment to recover, then turned to the next Strange Art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>② Misfortune-Transferring Art: A devious and variable technique originating from the ancient I Ching. Later, certain sects of cultivators, seeking to alter fate, devoted great effort to this path of destiny—and to secure enough cultivation resources and test subjects, they applied it to secular power-brokers and wealthy elites who desired fortune-alteration or fate-reversal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng shui fortune-alteration, tomb-based fate-reversal, soul-exchange, stealing dragon veins, celestial destiny alignment…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most successful case nearly caused a dynastic overthrow during a period of prosperity, leading successive emperors to strictly ban and suppress it. It rapidly declined, leaving only minor talismans—such as those for warding off misfortune, ensuring smoothness, or resolving hardship—still circulating among Buddhist and Daoist circles and folk traditions. Misfortune-Transferring Art was merely a trivial offshoot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Misfortune-Transferring, as the name implies, transfers one’s own misfortune onto another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When one feels their fortune has turned sour or suffers a grave illness, burn incense, bathe, take a sheet of cinnabar paper, draw a Bagua diagram, and arrange one’s birth time in a special sequence by dripping blood onto it; then take a personal garment or item, burn the cinnabar paper above it, and discard the item.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If someone picks it up, one’s bad luck gradually transfers to them—and they will suffer worse misfortune than you ever did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Note: Fortune is dynamically balanced and unpredictable—use with caution!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at this art, Louis found it fascinating. In traditional belief, fortune-alteration and fate-reversal have always been in high demand, and feng shui masters who could subtly influence them have risen to prominence in modern times—even billionaires treat them with flattery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coincidentally, Louis felt his own fortune had been poor lately—otherwise, he wouldn’t have encountered the Hell Lord Mamen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though, the man clearly didn’t even know who Louis was…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll try it sometime—just once. Enough to enter the basics. After all, those two words ‘use with caution’ look like a warning. Better heed them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis thought to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having decided, he turned to the final Strange Art—and his expression changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ancient… Zoroastrians came here? Preached? Integrated into local traditions?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>③ Poison Fire Art: Originating from Zoroastrianism (pronounced xiān), also known as the Fire Worship Religion or the Religion of Zarathustra, a foreign Persian faith that venerates dualistic gods of good and evil. It entered China during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and had fire temples built. It was banned outright during Emperor Wuzong’s suppression of Buddhism, yet traces remained. Its last known location was in Henan, and today it has become a local custom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Poison Fire Art was created by Zoroastrians who fused Daoist legends of the underworld’s punishment of the wicked, producing a technique that generates powerful flames by burning evil souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more wicked the soul, the longer it burns and the fiercer the fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This flame is extremely potent: it burns souls, ignites on contact, and has special efficacy against evil beings and ghosts—like a malignant sore, highly toxic, though its physical temperature is relatively ordinary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Note: To use this art, one must internally judge their own guilt—the stronger the sense of sin, the heavier the backlash upon oneself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at this art, Louis gave an admiring sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Impressive. Even foreign religious techniques exist here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was normal. That land had existed too long; many foreign religions had tried to proselytize there. Few succeeded, but traces remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three arts, each extraordinary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beast-Making Art violates heaven and nature; Misfortune-Transferring Art is devious and unpredictable; Poison Fire Art burns souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None of these three arts could ever be spoken of openly—if used and seen, one would almost certainly be treated as a witch or demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, these arts fit perfectly on this land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perfectly suited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too bad I arrived late—if I’d come sooner, I’d have used Beast-Making Art on those little bastards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it’s not too late—there’s no shortage of material: addicts, murderers, thugs, hardened criminals…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm, I’ll call my uncle later—tell him to send over more human traffickers and drug dealers. He’s got plenty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis pondered for a moment, then prepared to examine the final three arts—the newly unlocked Miao-Dai Gu  Art section.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A piercing scream tore through the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound carried an unnatural force, highly penetrating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Louis startled, rushing to the window—the source was beside the house, not far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The neighbor’s door opened, and Jiali’s mother, Margaret, shoved a girl out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Emma!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind Margaret, Jiali was pushing forward, trying to come out, but hesitating—her mother stood in her way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bitch! Shameless! Get out of my house!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Margaret screamed at Emma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emma said nothing, only stared coldly, her gaze slightly shifting—as if toward Jiali behind her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiali cried out, “Emma, I’m sorry!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before she finished, the door slammed shut, cutting off the sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only faint, muffled noises escaped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apologies, hysterical screams, thuds against the wall…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1178,"2026-06-19T23:34:28.869Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","bba649edbb5f8420c810c7c1a587803b0407104af48d2ac8a2ebc051817ef749","becoming-a-god-through-horror-chapter-63","becoming-a-god-through-horror-chapter-61",253,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fbecoming-a-god-through-horror-cover.jpg"]