Chapter 174: Blood God Secret Art

Nanhuang has always been a place where Side-Door Paths are active.

In a sense, it can also be considered a place where a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend within the Cultivator circle.

It is just that starting a thousand years ago, with the invasion of Evil Qi, Evil Spirits have become more and more numerous.

After some daring Nanhuang Cultivators introduced Evil Arts into their own Secret Techniques, thereby truly creating many methods for quick success and techniques that harm others to benefit oneself.

The cultivation environment in Nanhuang began to deteriorate.

Regions looked after by large Immortal Sects are still fine, and mortals can still huddle together to survive.

In places where those sects cannot reach, mortals, as resources, should logically have been harvested in a sustainable manner.

Among slightly larger cultivation forces, there is actually no one who does not understand this principle.

But the problem is that Nanhuang is too chaotic.

After various quick-success Secret Techniques became rampant.

If you choose sustainable development, that is just cultivating resources for others.

No one knows if the mortal city they protect will be harvested by someone else in the next second, and then the harvested resources will be used to deal with them and wipe out their entire sect.

Even large Immortal Sects have various hidden worries, fearing that an outbreak will occur one day and their lineage will be cut off.

Thus, as such chaos has continued for hundreds of years until today.

The Incense Divine Path lineage all rely on keeping mortals in captivity to survive, and must from time to time prevent peers or other sects from attacking them for resources.

Large Immortal Sects, on the other hand, have united like the current Central Region, controlling mortals with Markets as strongholds.

They call it protection, but in fact, besides selecting disciples, it is to obtain Spirit Objects and resources for cultivation.

No matter which one, they all secretly trade with other Side-Door Paths.

Exchanging population for various supplies.

The mortals in Nanhuang have long since had no royal families or great clans, unless they are detected to have a Spirit Root.

Otherwise, they are the most common hard currency in Nanhuang!

And now.

Let alone mortals, even low-level Cultivators have the possibility of becoming someone else's resources.

According to what the Main Priest Yuan Mu said.

Several peerless geniuses have appeared in the Demonic Path of Nanhuang, who are not only invincible in combat at the same realm.

They have even modified the Magic Art.

Making the already quick-success Magic Art even faster and more powerful.

The only problem is that it requires a large number of mortals and even Cultivators to practice the art.

This has caused the Incense Divine Path lineage, which also develops by relying on people, to suffer a great impact.

These people who play with faith are actually far inferior to the Demonic Path in terms of efficiency in this regard!

Were it not for the fact that there are also many lunatics in the Demonic Path, causing large Immortal Sects to unite and encircle them from time to time.

Outside the territories of the large Immortal Sects in Nanhuang, there would likely be no regions left for these Incense Divine Path followers to survive.

Listening to the Main Priest's complaints, Su Ping finally understood why Xiao Mu Zhenren and the others had such expressions when they mentioned the Incense Divine Path.

It turns out Nanhuang is already in a stage of mutual elimination.

Perhaps those with a little bit of a way out and a little bit of spirit are all considering how to jump out, right?

It is just that the timing of these Incense Divine Path followers coming is also wrong.

After the heavy snow came the great chaos of Evil Spirits.

Su Ping is not clear about other regions, but in these Gold Wood Region, mortals are already less than one in ten.

The Earth Character Region is close to the Ten Thousand Mountains, and when he went to guard the Immortal City last time, he could see a thing or two; it was also long since nine out of ten houses were empty.

The other two regions could neither escape the snow disaster nor the Evil Qi Tide.

Su Ping is equally skeptical about how much population they have.

Calculating it this way.

Plus the fact that the Great Golden Light Temple is clearly showing its hand to snatch faith.

The Immortal Sects cannot reach here, and on their own territory, they have likely already begun to gather large numbers of people to build Buddha cities.

Su Ping knows that practicing the Incense Divine Path in the Cultivation World... is likely already a dead end!

If the Incense Divine Path lineage still wants to surpass their predecessors, perhaps they can only hand over all their inheritance to him, and only by him carrying it forward in another place will it be possible!

Subsequently, after obtaining various key information for opening the Inheritance Jade Slip from the Main Priest.

Su Ping's heart stirred, and he turned it back into an ice coffin and sealed it within the array diagram.

Su Ping did not release him into the Pot Heaven.

That Main Priest did not accept the invitation; once he leaves the array diagram, he will be forcibly kicked out and returned to the Cultivation World.

And even if he were willing, Su Ping would not be.

In Su Ping's view, this Main Priest, apart from not practicing Evil Arts and giving his brain to the Evil God, is not much different from an Evil Cultivator in what he does!

Su Ping absolutely dares not trust his loyalty.

However, the information and knowledge he provided can be distinguished and then studied.

Su Ping spent a day sorting through the Inheritance Jade Slips from these Blood God Sect Cultivators.

He discovered the improved Paper Person Secret Technique that can be used to form arrays in battle.

He also discovered their Soul Refining Secret Technique from the Storage Bag left behind by the dead black and white children.

This Soul Refining Secret Technique can absorb the Divine Soul of various living beings and fuse it into one's own body, thereby refining one's own Divine Soul into an evil spirit with self-awareness.

The ultimate goal is to refine it into an Underworld Ghost God, which can open up an Underworld Secret Realm and become the Underworld Son.

It is just that this is only theoretically feasible.

If one were to truly practice it, just looking at the appearance of the Black and White Boys would reveal that not only has their Divine Soul long since mutated, but their physical body has also suffered Decay, requiring the constant use of Secret Techniques to replace those festering limbs.

Although it does indeed have its merits, such as being a shortcut and consuming fewer Spirit Objects.

But Su Ping himself would not practice it; he will note it down for now and wait for someone fated to encounter it.

As for the Incense Divine Path that Su Ping cares about most.

Su Ping discovered that those Inheritance Jade Slips recorded only how to contact the Blood God, and how to obtain true inheritance knowledge through communicating with the Blood God.

The Blood God of the Blood God Sect is not an evil god, but an Incense True God that has been consciously manufactured since the first generation of Sect Leader a thousand years ago.

It is rumored that in order to forge this Incense True God to protect the sect, several generations of Sect Leaders and sect Elders chose to perform a Blood Sacrifice on themselves before their lifespans ended, allowing their own Divine Souls to enter the embrace of the Blood God and become a part of this deity.

Over time, this Incense True God also possessed more and more strange abilities and took on the heavy responsibility of the entire sect's inheritance.

It is just that, one could guess without asking, the process of receiving the inheritance would certainly be influenced by the Blood God's self-awareness.

Fortunately, what Su Ping fears least is this kind of Mental Pollution.

Returning to that cave in the Cultivation World.

Su Ping went directly to Yunshan Market and found Xiao Mu Zhenren to report the news of discovering the Nanhuang Incense Divine Path.

Afterward, he purchased a portion of supplies.

However, he did not return to Jiuye Mountain Market, but instead sought out another uninhabited mountain forest.

After setting up a concealment Array there and repairing the Altar.

Su Ping used the Memory Scepter to summon the Memory Illusion of Fire Knight Alwin.

Then, after taking over the body of Fire Knight Alwin.

Su Ping took a deep breath and, following the content in the Inheritance Jade Slip, silently recited the Requesting God Mantra with the Fire Knight's mouth.

He also lit incense candles and inserted them into the incense burner provided by the Main Priest.

That golden, half-a-person-tall incense burner emitted a red light.

The three incense candles began to burn rapidly, causing a faint, mist-like incense aura to permeate the surroundings.

In the perception of the Fire Knight, who was inhabited by Su Ping.

As the incense aura emerged, a certain power descended from the sky and enveloped the Altar.

Then, the Fire Knight standing at the Altar looked at the surrounding environment and discovered that the world had turned completely blood-red.

Even in the sky, a single eye appeared, curiously examining him.

Yet Su Ping, who was outside the Altar, discovered nothing at all.

He could not help but marvel secretly, suspecting that the Fire Knight had been dragged into some kind of Array space.

In order to receive the inheritance, the Fire Knight had no blessings or Evil-Warding Blessing on him.

However, Su Ping was not too worried, not to mention that the Fire Knight possessed an Indomitable Will.

Even if there were a problem, it would only be this Memory Illusion being polluted.

His true body had enough time to consume a Purification Potion and leave the Cultivation World.

"..."

In the blood-colored world, the single eye examined Fire Knight Alwin.

After waiting for several seconds, Su Ping thought an accident was about to happen.

Only then did he notice the blood-colored single eye in the sky close and disappear.

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

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

By distinguishing them carefully, one could tell that these people were all speaking about knowledge related to the Incense Divine Path.

As the speed of these voices became faster and more urgent.

The ground became muddy.

Immediately, the surroundings also turned into a Blood Sea, making Fire Knight Alwin feel as if he were soaking in a pool of blood.

The incense candles on the incense burner gradually burned to the end.

Then, strands of blood emerged from the incense ash in the burner, actually inserting themselves into the Fire Knight's glabella and shoulders.

As these blood strands submerged into the body.

Memories emerged one after another in the Fire Knight's mind.

A bizarre pollution appeared in the Fire Knight's sea of consciousness.

Yet it could not invade the Fire Knight's Indomitable Will no matter what.

In the stalemate, a blood strand suddenly snapped.

This allowed a segment of memory to be absorbed by the Fire Knight.

That was the memory of the first generation Sect Leader of the Blood God Sect.

Through the sharing of the Fire Knight, Su Ping saw that Divine Dao Sect Leader, who was at least at the Golden Core stage, discover the Blood Jade from a meteorite from beyond the heavens.

Afterward, he began to use the Blood Jade as a base and billions of incense divine thoughts as a body to forge the prototype of the Blood God.

In the end, he even attempted to replace the body of the Blood God with his own will, becoming a True God in the world.

It is just that, quite obviously, he failed, and everything of his true body became the foundation of the Blood God.

Even his memories were treated as part of the inheritance.

However, those who can withstand so much pollution and see these memories... there shouldn't be many, right?

Just as he was thinking this, Su Ping discovered that the second blood strand had also broken.

Another segment of memory emerged.

It was a robed Cultivator holding a Dharma Sword who appeared in the memory.

This person was not a member of the Blood God Path at first, but an Elder of a major sect in Nanhuang!

It is just that this Elder, whose sword technique reached the heavens... after slaying an Elder of the Blood God Sect, came into contact with the Blood God and was eroded by the Blood God, becoming an Elder of the Blood God Sect himself.

It could be considered an alternative kind of one-for-one trade.

From this Elder's memories, besides more Divine Dao cultivation methods and various Secret Techniques.

There was also the addition of this Elder's own Dharma Sword Secret Technique.

This actually gave Su Ping a pleasant surprise.

At the same time.

The main altar of the Blood God Sect.

Inside a secret chamber filled with the scent of incense.

The Sect Leader, who was in the middle of cultivation, suddenly woke up.

He widened his blood-red eyes, and dense, blood-red tentacles emerged from his body:

"Who is it!"

"Since when did our sect produce such a heaven-gifted talent!"

"To actually disturb the Blood God Origin!"