Chapter 241: The True Scripture of Yuan Sha

Morning mist curled like smoke as the rising sun climbed the eastern horizon.

On Wangyue Island, Qin Ming had spent over three months studying the black iron shard that had fallen from the demonic vine.

Finally, through relentless pressure of his powerful spiritual sense, he succeeded in penetrating the iron's core.

The instant Qin Ming's spiritual sense entered the black iron shard.

A vast torrent of complex information surged into his mind, one wave after another.

When he regained his composure, he discovered the shard contained a supreme demonic art: The True Scripture of Yuan Sha's Demon Seeding.

This demonic art was among the highest-tier techniques of the Demon Sects, encompassing countless esoteric methods—such as "Yin Sha Asura Hand," "Blood Refining Palm," "Blood Refining Heaven and Earth," and "Blood Pool Technique"—each devastatingly potent and ruthlessly brutal.

It also included supreme body cultivation arts like "Tian Sha True Demon Body" and "Yin Ming Celestial Corpse Scripture."

Qin Ming would never cultivate this demonic art; to do so would make him a true demon cultivator, hunted by all.

He could never survive in the Wei Kingdom's cultivation world.

Yet two secret techniques within The True Scripture of Yuan Sha's Demon Seeding had captured Qin Ming's intense interest.

One was called "Blood Dash Technique," which burned one's own blood qi to achieve maximum flight speed—even surpassing his current Floating Light Shadow Technique by several times.

At its peak, it could achieve "Blood Dash Through Void," transforming into a crimson shadow and instantly teleporting a hundred li away.

An essential skill for travel, escape, and survival!

Even without reaching its peak, full-power use of Blood Dash could match the speed of a Golden Core elder.

This secret technique leaned heavily on blood cultivation, demanding extreme blood qi strength.

But for Qin Ming, this was no obstacle.

The other secret technique was called "True Demon Illusion," a powerful demonic illusion art requiring a formidable spiritual soul as its foundation; otherwise, failure to master it risked qi deviation and spiritual collapse.

True Demon Illusion could alter one's appearance to mimic any person.

At its peak, it could generate three "Demon Shadow Illusions" simultaneously, indistinguishable from reality.

Even more potent, it could conceal the user from spiritual probes by cultivators one full realm higher.

Moreover, the stronger the cultivator's spiritual soul, the more effective the True Demon Illusion became.

With Qin Ming's current spiritual soul strength, he could even evade detection by Golden Core elders.

"This technique is brilliant! Truly exquisite!" Qin Ming exclaimed, clapping his hands with a smile.

"If I learn True Demon Illusion, I won't need to swallow a hundred illusion pills every day."

"And its combat effectiveness is exceptional, both in application and utility."

Imagine fighting an enemy, then suddenly three demonic clones appear—no one can tell which is real. A devastating tactic.

"According to the demonic scripture, mastering this technique requires also cultivating a vile soul-devouring method to enhance spiritual soul power."

"The soul-devouring method demands constant extraction and consumption of other cultivators' spiritual souls to strengthen one's own—cruel, vicious, and fraught with grave risks."

"After consuming too many spiritual souls, one risks nurturing heart demons; if they fully break free from control, the spiritual soul becomes chaotic and irreversible, dragging one irrevocably into demonic corruption."

"But I have the 【Soul Power Crystal】 term—once refreshed, it continuously enhances my soul power with no dangerous side effects. It's tailor-made for me!"

"This technique I can cultivate."

These two secret techniques truly lit up Qin Ming's vision.

The core technique of The True Scripture of Yuan Sha's Demon Seeding was a pig-farming demonic art: planting a "demon seed" onto another cultivator.

When the demon seed bloomed and bore fruit, one could harvest the target's cultivation achievements at will.

This demonic art could steal not only Foundation Establishment cultivation, but even Golden Core cultivation.

A hundred years of hard-won progress, instantly stolen—made into someone else's gain. The thought was terrifying.

"This demonic art is truly horrifying. I wonder who created it."

"If this scripture were released, not only would demon sects fight to the death for it—even orthodox cultivators would struggle to resist its temptation." Fortunately, Qin Ming had his term system—he didn't need to risk cultivating the core demon-seeding scripture.

Practicing just the two secret techniques posed no problem.

In the days that followed,

Qin Ming began cultivating the two secret techniques.

Blood Dash relied on blood qi, while True Demon Illusion relied on spiritual soul energy.

Neither involved the nature of magic power.

Unlike other methods in the demonic scripture, which required demonic magic power as a foundation.

Qin Ming merely glanced at those and moved on.

…

Three months later.

Behind the main peak of Wangyue Island.

A crimson blood shadow darted through the air, vanishing in an instant.

Moments later, a distortion appeared ten li away, and Qin Ming's blood shadow materialized in a bizarre manner.

"Blood Dash Through Void—I've finally mastered it!"

"But this technique consumes far more blood qi than I imagined—even my immensely powerful blood qi true Gang can only sustain three uses before reaching its limit."

"Unless I store more 【Blood Qi Crystals】, I won't be able to use it more than a few times."

"Otherwise, overexerting my blood qi risks damaging my origin and shortening my lifespan—too costly."

After mastering Blood Dash,

Qin Ming turned to studying "True Demon Illusion," spending over half a month meticulously analyzing the mental incantations, ensuring every step was flawless.

Techniques involving the spiritual soul demanded extreme caution—if he made a mistake and became mentally broken, it would be a disaster.

In his cave, Qin Ming closed his eyes slightly, gazing inward at his spiritual sea.

Within the boundless, vast expanse of his spiritual sea,

Using spiritual sense comparable to a False Core cultivator, Qin Ming traced intricate, arcane patterns as instructed by the demonic scripture, constructing and drawing runes.

Three days and nights passed.

As time flowed, Qin Ming's immense spiritual soul energy completed three dark runes, drawn entirely from soul power, now floating silently in his spiritual sea.

When not using True Demon Illusion, these three runes could be stored in the spiritual sea and nourished with soul power.

Qin Ming immediately touched one dark rune with his spiritual sense, visualizing his intent.

A swirl of dark light flashed over Qin Ming's body, and he transformed into a bearded, burly man.

Compared to swallowing Hundred Illusion Pills, the transformation was far more lifelike—every detail, every aura, perfectly authentic.

Qin Ming then touched the other two dark runes in succession.

Two more bearded, burly men materialized beside him, identical in aura; Qin Ming could control both demon shadow illusions simultaneously using his mind-splitting technique.

The three bearded men radiated ferocity, capable of replicating even the original's spells—indistinguishable from reality.

After practicing True Demon Illusion for a while, Qin Ming dismissed the technique and rubbed his head, easing the fatigue from overusing his spiritual soul.

"With my current spiritual soul strength, using all three dark runes at once is too taxing."

"But using just one illusion, I can sustain it for a long time."

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(End of Chapter)