Chapter 327: Death Curse Technique

Carrying the three million top-grade spirit stones he had just obtained.

Li Dachui's figure faded away, returning to his own cave dwelling within Dongxuan City.

In the distance.

The Phantom Shadow watched the two's transaction with great reluctance.

After Ye Qingxuan and Li Dachui finished their transaction.

The Phantom Shadow left with a gloomy expression, fleeing toward the direction of Dongjizhou.

On Mount Wanling in Dongxuan City.

Sensing the Phantom Shadow's departure, Ye Qingxuan glanced slightly to the side.

Regarding the Phantom Sect mentioned by the Phantom Shadow.

The item Li Dachui traded to him matched him perfectly and offered significant help in his early stages.

However, the Death Curse Technique has a cooldown period; this is a restriction imposed by the Great Dao rules on such a heaven-defying divine ability.

At the Minor Success level, the Death Curse Technique can curse and reduce the lifespan of a cultivator one minor realm higher than oneself.

As for the Immortal Realm?

At the Perfection level, the Death Curse Technique can curse and reduce the lifespan of a cultivator three minor realms higher than oneself.

At the Entry level, the Death Curse Technique can curse and reduce the lifespan of a cultivator at the same realm.

Relying solely on a minor divine ability containing the rules of meaning makes it difficult to inflict effective damage on cultivators at the Immortal Realm level.

When cursing a cultivator below the Void Penetration realm, the cooldown period for the Death Curse Technique is ten years.

When cursing a cultivator at the Tribulation Crossing realm, the cooldown period for the Death Curse Technique is three thousand years.

The Immortal Realm has already begun to involve the Great Dao laws.

It can silently and without warning reduce a cultivator's lifespan out of thin air.

Opening the wooden box floating in the air, inside was a dark black jade slip.

Holding the jade slip in his hand, joy inevitably appeared in Ye Qingxuan's eyes.

When cursing a cultivator at the Void Penetration realm, the cooldown period for the Death Curse Technique is one hundred years.

Ye Qingxuan waved his hand and retrieved the wooden box Li Dachui had traded to him.

Minor Divine Ability · Death Curse Technique: Sacrifice one's own lifespan to curse a cultivator.

When cursing a cultivator at the Mahayana realm, the cooldown period for the Death Curse Technique is ten thousand years.

Inside the jade slip in his hand lay a special minor divine ability named the Death Curse Technique.

At the Great Success level, the Death Curse Technique can curse and reduce the lifespan of a cultivator two minor realms higher than oneself.

When cursing a cultivator at the Empty Meditation realm, the cooldown period for the Death Curse Technique is one thousand years.

Ye Qingxuan felt a slight wariness, but it was not enough to make him hesitate.

But below the Immortal Realm.

The effect of the Minor Divine Ability · Death Curse Technique is undoubtedly heaven-defying.

After all, in the early stages of cultivation, lifespan is the foundation of a cultivator.

Once lifespan is exhausted, no matter how extraordinary the cultivator is, there is only the path of destruction.

Unfortunately, the Death Curse Technique seems heaven-defying.

But for ordinary cultivators, the Minor Divine Ability · Death Curse Technique is merely a useless item.

Because to curse and reduce the opponent's lifespan, one must sacrifice one's own lifespan.

The ratio of this sacrifice to the cursed reduction is one to one.

That is to say, to curse and reduce the opponent's lifespan by a thousand years, one's own lifespan will also be sacrificed by a thousand years.

Under such circumstances, a cultivator would only use it if they intended to trade life for life.

Otherwise, even if they learned the Minor Divine Ability · Death Curse Technique, they would have no opportunity to use it.

Unless they targeted cultivators whose lifespan was nearly exhausted every time.

Only in this way can the Death Curse Technique display its unique brilliance in the hands of ordinary cultivators.

From the jade slip.

Ye Qingxuan also learned why the Phantom Shadow was so obsessed with the Death Curse Technique, this useless minor divine ability.

As one of the ancestral divine abilities and foundational treasures of the Phantom Sect before its fall, the Death Curse Technique.

It matches the Phantom Sect's ancestral cultivation method, the Death Burial Sutra, very well.

The Death Burial Sutra, the Phantom Sect's ancestral cultivation method, allows cultivators practicing it to establish a special connection.

This special connection allows cultivators practicing the Death Burial Sutra nearby to share life and spiritual power for a short time.

This is one of the Phantom Sect cultivators' trump cards against enemies.

In this state.

If the Minor Divine Ability · Death Curse Technique is used, the sacrificed lifespan will be shared equally among all Phantom Sect cultivators.

Only the combination of the Death Burial Sutra and the Death Curse Technique can mitigate the aftereffects of using the Death Curse Technique.

Therefore, the Phantom Shadow pursued the ancestral jade slip in his hand.

All the way from Dongjizhou to Xingluo Zhou.

The ancestral jade slip contains the evolution of the divine ability from nothingness to existence.

Only cultivators who have cultivated the divine ability to the Perfection level can condense such an ancestral jade slip.

Without the ancestral jade slip.

Relying solely on cultivators who practice the minor divine ability passing it down orally.

Not only will the difficulty of comprehending the divine ability rise sharply.

Moreover, if a generation is broken—meaning a cultivator in a certain generation fails to comprehend the technique in time and successfully enter the path—

this technique might be lost forever.

Only a cultivator at the Void Penetration realm can fully condense the Dao characters of a minor technique.

Ye Qingxuan did not know whether the Ghost Sect currently had a Void Penetration cultivator stationed there.

However, from their first contact today, seeing that the Ghost Shadow could easily produce a seventh-grade talisman, a consumable item,

Ye Qingxuan felt that even if the Ghost Sect currently lacked a Void Penetration cultivator stationed there,

throughout its history, the Ghost Sect must have produced Void Penetration cultivators.

Even if there was a gap, it would not have been too long ago.

That is why the Ghost Shadow was so obsessed with the Death Curse Technique.

If it were an ordinary cultivator,

upon learning the limitations of the Death Curse Technique, they might not easily offend the Ghost Sect for such a useless technique.

But the limitations of the Death Curse Technique could only make ordinary cultivators hesitate and stop.

For Ye Qingxuan,

the only limitation of the Death Curse Technique was the unavoidable cooldown period.

As for sacrificing lifespan?

Because of the existence of the Eternal Turtle, Ye Qingxuan's own lifespan had long become eternal.

Sacrificing lifespan to curse and kill a cultivator would have no effect on him whatsoever.

Before the Immortal Realm,

the Death Curse Technique might become his greatest trump card.

However, to fully condense the Dao characters of a minor technique, one must first advance to the Void Penetration realm.

Even if one comprehends the underlying principles corresponding to a minor technique,

without raising one's cultivation base to the Void Penetration realm, Ye Qingxuan would be unable to condense the complete Dao characters of the minor technique.

This is a restriction of the Great Dao rules.

Unless one reaches a level beyond the Great Dao rules, no one can bypass this restriction.

Playing with the jade slip in his hand, Ye Qingxuan unconsciously murmured:

"I wonder if I can first comprehend part of the Death Curse Technique's Dao patterns and condense a prototype of the minor technique, Death Curse?"

All the minor technique prototypes he had condensed so far

were pre-split by powerful beings who left behind Earth Immortal inheritances for him.

Therefore, he previously did not need to spend a great deal of time researching and exploring on his own.

He only needed to follow the content of the inheritance and sequentially comprehend and condense the prototypes of minor techniques.

The Earth Immortal inheritance also contained many minor techniques that had not been split or simplified.

However, most of these minor techniques were of the offensive or supportive types,

and none were special minor techniques like the Death Curse Technique.

Thus, Ye Qingxuan had never intended to waste his time researching and condensing prototypes of other minor techniques in advance.

But this time,

the heaven-defying effect of the minor technique, Death Curse, made Ye Qingxuan's heart flutter.

If he could truly condense a prototype of the Dao characters for the minor technique, Death Curse, in advance,

allowing his clone to secretly hunt down the Green Demon Clan using the Death Curse Technique,

then his accumulation speed at the Soul Transformation realm would increase significantly.

By then, the time it took for him to break through to the Void Penetration realm would inevitably be shortened considerably.

This was the first time Ye Qingxuan considered entering seclusion to research and explore, relying on his own comprehension to condense a minor technique prototype in advance.

(End of Chapter)