"Curse arts are sinister and unpredictable, yet broad and profound. It seems the master of the ruins you entered back then was no ordinary figure in life. Even if he was not a Nascent Soul True Lord, he could not have been far from it."
Song Changsheng set down the curse art manual Yu Xinchou had voluntarily offered up, feeling as though his horizons had been broadened once again.
Even the Mysterious Creation Canon, reputed to contain the world's finest arts, held very few records concerning curse arts.
The era in which the Qingtian Sword Immortal had roamed unhindered was far too ancient. At that time, curse arts had yet to flourish; they were merely insignificant side paths, often used by mortals and utterly incapable of threatening cultivators. They were simply not qualified to be recorded in the Mysterious Creation Canon.
They were only mentioned in a few biographies.
This was Song Changsheng's first time gaining such a direct glimpse into the world of Curse Masters.
He had previously known only that curse arts could kill without leaving a trace, without possessing any concrete understanding of them. After reading this manual, he finally gained a rough grasp of the subject and discovered that curse arts were also quite a useful means.
Not all curse arts were killing techniques, which somewhat differed from common perception. Magic incantations frequently used by cultivators, such as the Golden Light Incantation and Calming Mind Incantation, were in fact types of curse arts, "transformed" from Buddhist and Daoist methods.
There were also the Dragon-Walking Incantation, Body-Protection Incantation, and Fire-Averting Incantation, among others. All were highly practical enhancement-type incantations. When cultivated to the utmost, they were not much inferior to Daoist arts and divine abilities.
Of course, speaking of curse arts naturally meant speaking of killing curses