Yue Qianchou tilted his head and asked, "Unless what?"
"This is purely a legend. No one knows whether it is true or false." Crocodile Immortal Lord seemed to have been stirred by distant memories as well, and slowly said, "It is said that the techniques in the Demon Codex are too heaven-defying, and the demands they place on one's cultivation talent are exceedingly high. Not everyone is qualified to complete all the cultivation methods within it—not even the descendants of the Demon God. There are rumors that even the most gifted Devil Lords throughout the ages only cultivated two-thirds of it. The farther one progressed, the more tyrannical the recorded techniques became. However, the Demon God placed a forbidden curse on this Demon Codex using the Great Demon God Technique. Those heaven-defying techniques in the later sections cannot be viewed by anyone who has not cultivated the Demon Codex, nor by those whose cultivation is insufficient."
"In other words, if one wishes to cultivate the later heaven-defying techniques, a cultivator of the Demon Codex must unlock its layers of restrictions step by step according to the progress of their cultivation. Otherwise, they will suffer backlash from the demonic arts. This should also have been a means by which the Demon God protected his descendants! It is said that the methods used by Devil Lords throughout the ages to forge Demonic Bodies and cultivate the Demon Codex were not orthodox. The true method of forging a Demonic Body required selecting a person to undergo cultivation according to a great technique recorded in the Demon Codex. But that technique is far too cruel. Those who undergo its trial face nine deaths and one chance at life. Even among a hundred thousand cultivators, one may not find a suitable heir to cultivate the