Zhang Zhifeng nodded. "That's right! The Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python transformed into human form, gave himself the name Mang Tian, established the Seven-Colored Society, and recruited several True Immortal cultivators. I heard he received the support of the Bright Moon Alliance."
"I heard Mang Tian opened his apertures. It was probably the Aperture Opening Secret Method given to him by the Bright Moon Alliance."
Jin Tianlong guessed.
The Aperture Opening Secret Method was a means by which major forces controlled their subordinate powers. Most Aperture Opening Secret Methods circulating on the market could open only two or three apertures. To switch to another Aperture Opening Secret Method, one had to dissolve the apertures opened by the original method and find new materials to open them again. It was no different from dispersing one's cultivation and starting over, and it consumed a great deal of time and effort.
Opening the fourth and fifth apertures required special Immortal Pills as assistance. Different Aperture Opening Secret Methods recorded different Immortal Pills. When a Rogue Cultivator at the True Immortal stage obtained a high-grade Aperture Opening Secret Method, gathering all the materials was already a huge problem. Even after gathering them, they still needed to ask an Immortal alchemist to refine the pills, and there were very few True Immortal Rogue Cultivators who could refine Immortal Pills.
Thus, it was extremely difficult for a True Immortal Rogue Cultivator to open a fourth aperture.
"Hmph, he's merely a dog raised by the Bright Moon Alliance. Killing him would dirty my hands. Someone else will deal with him."
Gao Shuyao snorted coldly, not taking Mang Tian seriously at all.
They were both at the True Immortal Late Stage, but she had opened a fourth aperture. The fact that Mang Tian could open three apertures was already