Two flowers bloomed on separate branches.
Tu Shan Jun, having moved away from the treasury, did not flee. Instead, he turned back and stuffed the soul banner back into Shi Zhu's embrace.
Now that Shi Zhu had awakened, Tu Shan Jun no longer paid him any attention.
Instead, he looked at Zhou Liang's yin soul within the banner.
"Question the Soul."
Extracted:
Nightmare Pattern Spirit-Attachment Art
Talisman Crafting (False)
Blood Spirit Art (Incomplete)
The Nightmare Pattern Spirit-Attachment Art was an unorthodox technique that stripped the blood from ghosts and evil spirits, processed and ground it into spiritually infused ink, then used a special method to tattoo it into one's own skin and activate it.
The caster could use this art to attach spirits to themselves and gain a weakened portion of an evil spirit's abilities.
The patterns drawn had to resemble the original ghost or evil spirit and form a complete circuit.
The closer the resemblance, the more power one could obtain.
However, this art also had a drawback: the sentience within the nightmare patterns would erode one's mind.
Qi Refiners had the means to suppress it, but if it were used on ordinary people, then aside from those with unwavering wills, most would easily have their minds corroded by the nightmare patterns' sentience and be tortured into neither human nor ghost.
Yet it had to be said that this was a spell capable of rapidly increasing one's strength.
All in all, as long as it did not worsen the burden on one's soul, this art could be used properly.
Though it was an unorthodox art, Tu Shan Jun thought rather highly of it.
"Talismans Crafting (False)—so it was actually a talisman-drawing skill." Tu Shan Jun was not particularly surprised.
The spirit-attachment art required considerable skill with the brush and