Chapter 66: 65, The Six Needling Methods of the Hidden Needle Lady

65, The Six Needling Methods of the Hidden Needle Lady

"The Six Needling Methods of the Hidden Needle Lady, the second is Butterfly Knot. Recite silently: Hidden Needle, Hidden Needle, a butterfly weaving through flowers, and the Hidden Needle Lady will aid you, applying the Butterfly Knot with interwoven threads;

The Six Needling Methods of the Hidden Needle Lady, the third is Fish Wagging Tail..."

As Zhou Chang observed the Ghost Mortuary Robe on his body with his left eye, which was chaotic with devouring thoughts and filled with confusion, the Great Essence Heart Alchemy Sutra once again provided corresponding hints, and this time the content of the hints was extremely detailed.

In the Great Essence Heart Alchemy Sutra, Li Xiamei's manifestation of the Thought Demon Root is called the 'Terror Root Nurtured in the Human Womb'.

This 'Terror Root Nurtured in the Human Womb' is judged by the Great Essence Heart Alchemy Sutra to be a low-grade medicinal material, serving as the medicinal guide for forging the 'Ghost-Dependent Pill Formula' recorded in the Great Essence Heart Alchemy Sutra.

Furthermore, if the 'Six Needling Methods of the Hidden Needle Lady' are applied to this Ghost Mortuary Robe, the quality of the robe can be improved.

Since Zhou Chang read the Great Essence Heart Alchemy Sutra brought by Yang Rui, whenever he entered a state like the present, struck by devouring thoughts and with his mind in chaos, the contents of the sutra would often surface.

The first time, when he was eroded by delusions, his thoughts were chaotic, and he observed the flesh shell of the Nie Corpse, the Great Essence Heart Alchemy Sutra called the Nie Corpse the 'Egg Sheath Embryonic Naga', this egg sheath embryo, though it had already been planted with a demon seed, had not yet received spiritual essence.

One only needs to follow the method recorded in the Great Essence Heart Alchemy Sutra, recite a certain incantation, and then 'the womb will change my form and grant me its essence'...

An ordinary person, if they obtained the slanderous method taught by the Great Essence Heart Alchemy Sutra, might immediately try to recite the incantation, seeking to grant their own spiritual essence to the 'Naga Demon Seed'—but Zhou Chang knew even better that the origin of this scripture was treacherous, and cultivating according to the scripture was not the right path.

Who could determine that after one recites the incantation according to the scripture, the Naga Demon Seed has received one's own spiritual essence?

Or has one's own spiritual essence been replaced by the spiritual essence of the owner of the Great Essence Heart Alchemy Sutra?

Even when the Great Essence Heart Alchemy Sutra, after Zhou Chang observed the Lotus Root Spiritual Essence, taught him to chant the 'Sudden Arrival Incantation' to summon the 'Black Deceitful Frenzy', it was the same principle!

The methods recorded in the Great Essence Heart Alchemy Sutra might all hide deep traps within; once one falls into them, it is estimated that escaping will be very difficult.

But the information hints it provides are often not false; indeed, when Zhou Chang combines his own experiences to view the information hints given by this sutra, the vast majority of the time they are true—without sacrificing the child, one cannot catch the wolf.

If it were to hide even a little bit of information hint, unwilling to give the truth, then how could it possibly lure people onto the hook?

However, Zhou Chang now feels that the 'Six Needling Methods of the Hidden Needle Lady' proposed in the Great Essence Heart Alchemy Sutra is indeed worth a try—

The chaos of devouring thoughts filling Zhou Chang's left eye caused him to hear the various information hints given by the Great Essence Heart Alchemy Sutra; in contrast, his left eye, uninfected by devouring thoughts, in a state of clear mind, saw a slender hand extend from a dark corner.

As the Great Essence Heart Alchemy Sutra continued to list the six needle methods of the Hidden Needle Lady, that slender hand also moved its five fingers rapidly within the dark corner.

Zhou Chang observed carefully and soon discovered that the movements of the five fingers of that hand, if guided by needle and thread, corresponded exactly to six different methods of flying needles and walking threads!

He had not recited the needle method incantations listed in the Great Essence Heart Alchemy Sutra, yet his right eye directly saw the specific movement requirements of these six formations!

The fingers of the 'Hidden Needle Lady' were hidden outside the chaotic devouring thoughts, waiting specifically for Zhou Chang to chant the corresponding incantation before flying needles and walking threads to sew the Ghost Mortuary Robe on Zhou Chang's body and improve its quality—except that whether this Terror Root, once hand-sewn by the 'Hidden Needle Lady', would still belong to Zhou Chang at that time was unknown.

Now that he had directly seen the needle method movements of the Hidden Needle Lady, Zhou Chang was even less likely to chant an incantation to invite it to sew clothes for him!

Zhou Chang's face remained expressionless; at the same time, he used his mind to guide each of those tangled black cotton threads, imitating the technique of the Hidden Needle Lady, and began to rapidly fly needles and walk threads on certain areas of the Ghost Mortuary Robe that he deemed needed sewing or modification—

The first stitch, Flying Knot...

The second stitch, Butterfly Knot...

Even though Zhou Chang's spirit was strong at present, imitating the needle methods of the Hidden Needle Lady made him feel quite draining on his energy.

The movements of the Hidden Needle Lady's hands seemed simple, but in reality, they all hid mysteries.

If one cannot capture the spirit within her hand movements, then no matter how similar the technique is to hers, one cannot truly perform her six needle methods.

Fortunately, although these six needle methods are difficult to learn, diligence can make up for lack of talent.

After trying many times, Zhou Chang finally applied all of the 'Six Needling Methods of the Hidden Needle Lady' to the 'Terror Root'—

The Terror Root Ghost Mortuary Robe remained pitch black; on the Ghost Mortuary Robe filled with devouring thoughts, every character of 'Mortuary' pattern turned into a pair of ghastly white lips and teeth; these lips and teeth, which had originally recklessly collected the freely flowing devouring thoughts, now had clusters of needle and thread surrounding those ghastly white lips.

The stitches were dense and clever; between the locking and unlocking of the knots, those ghastly white lips moved open and closed, yet could not recklessly absorb devouring thoughts, causing the Ghost Mortuary Robe to constantly grow and turn into another 'Li Xiamei'!

"Splash—"

A sound of pouring water came from not far outside the cellar pool.

Hearing this noise, Zhou Chang quickly retracted all the cotton threads spreading outward back into the coffin chamber.

The flesh shell of the Nie Corpse, wrapped by the Ghost Mortuary Robe, had already become emaciated; not a single drop of excess devouring qi could be squeezed out of its body.

Before his own doomsday arrived, using the wine cellar to 'steam dry' the devouring qi within this Nie Corpse, damaging its foundation, and reducing the terror level after it truly hatched into an Old Nie was also one of the important reasons Zhou Chang had voluntarily come to the wine cellar.

At this moment, as the sound of water outside ceased, that gust of moist and slippery devouring qi wind blew across the coffin chamber where Zhou Chang was again.

The Nie Corpse opened all its qi pores to welcome this gust of devouring qi wind, attempting to replenish its own losses with it!

But Zhou Chang had now taken the matter to the extreme—

Those black thought threads, which had drunk their fill of spiritual energy and had essentially all transformed into iron thought threads, appearing on the outside as cotton threads, at this moment, all stabbed into the qi pores of the Nie Corpse!

Every time the Nie Corpse inhaled a wisp of devouring qi, those cotton thought threads would transform that wisp of devouring qi!

Zhou Chang's mind was crazily struck by this devouring qi!

But in the previous tempering, his nature soul had become even stronger; now directly enduring the scouring of devouring qi, for him, it had no great effect!

"Ahhh!"

The Nie Corpse screamed wildly; purple-black hooked nails grew on its ten fingers, and every single nail tightly hooked into the coffin boards, tearing off large chunks of wood!

Its body twisted violently, attempting to break free from the constraints of the Ghost Mortuary Robe on its body!

And at this moment, Zhou Chang heard that gloomy male voice again: "Begin fermentation!"

This gloomy voice sounded as if it were right beside Zhou Chang's ear!

As the voice sounded and flowed into the coffin chamber, the formless and substance-less wind of devouring thoughts turned into a virtual, colorful airflow wrapped in various fungal threads; the devouring qi fungal threads stacked layer upon layer on the airflow, forming colorful scales!

In this instant, the Nie Corpse suddenly spread its arms, hugged this colorful, snake-tail-like airflow, and opened its mouth to bite fiercely!