Purple Firmament Dao Scripture

This lockpicking Skill Book had come from a divine thief...

Half a year ago, this divine thief had somehow slipped into the Three Mountains Gang's treasury, and no one in the Three Mountains Gang had noticed. Every kind of defense was utterly useless against the divine thief, especially things like door locks. The locks on Treasure Chests were nothing more than decorations.

Unfortunately, things had gone too smoothly, and the fellow had gotten carried away. While stealing from the treasury, he accidentally opened a Treasure Chest containing a Blood Orchid Grass. Carelessly taking a deep breath of its fragrance, he had fallen into a deathlike sleep right there in the treasury...

Once someone inhaled the fragrance of the Blood Orchid Grass, if no one woke them, they would be unable to awaken even when the sky grew old and the earth grew barren. Thus, a divine thief had slept in the treasury for an entire month. A Foundation Establishment cultivator would have been fine; sleeping for a month was nothing. But unfortunately, this fellow was only at the fifth level of Qi Nourishing. He had starved to death inside.

When the Three Mountains Gang opened the treasury again, they discovered the divine thief's corpse, rotted beyond human recognition. Moreover, the fellow seemed to have some sort of background, and the Three Mountains Gang had their misgivings. That was why they had called Qin Yang in to clean up the mess...

Looking at the Tricky Ring laid out on the table, Qin Yang could not help sighing. Earlier, he had been wholeheartedly trying to get hold of something useful for cultivation. Who would have thought that now, his life would depend on these lowly little skills...

And after lockpicking, he would need another lowly little skill...

He took out the corpse he had stolen earlier. The corpse looked to be in its twenties, very young, with a build and skin tone similar to Qin Yang's. Other than the missing skullcap, its body was not short a single part.

"Brother, I'm sorry. You're already dead, but I don't want to die yet. I can only borrow your body for now. If I can escape this time, I'll do my best to avenge you. If I can't kill those people, I'll print maps all over the streets and piss them off to death. Of course, if I step in dog shit and strike it lucky, getting some heavenly treasure and ascending in a single leap, I'll wipe out the treasure they're looking for in one sweep. I won't rest until I anger them into qi deviation, vomiting blood, and dying..."

Qin Yang lit three sticks of incense and placed them before the corpse. Only then did he take a soft breath, reaching out to knead and tap the corpse's joints and acupoints. Starting from its feet, he massaged and kneaded all the way to its tailbone, then clamped the lumbar vertebrae with both hands and shook his arms.

At once, the corpse's joints crackled and popped. Qin Yang then pushed upward along its spine, and when he reached the cervical vertebrae, he lightly slapped the corpse's forehead.

In an instant, the corpse seemed to come alive. Its mouth opened, and it exhaled a mouthful of blackish-gray death qi, killing intent, Yin Qi, and resentment qi.

The once-rigid corpse softened. Even its bluish-black skin seemed to return to the complexion of a living person, making it look like someone who had only just died, their body not yet cold...

This was a minor trick of a Corpse Collector. Through massage and kneading, supplemented by a special technique using True Essence, one could disperse the death qi, Killing Intent, and Yin Qi within a corpse, temporarily eliminating the possibility of it transforming into a corpse. But as time passed, it would eventually return to its original state.

However, that recovery time was enough for the Corpse Collector to finish everything and bury the body...

As for now, naturally, it was to make this corpse resemble him a little more...

He put the Tricky Ring from the table around the corpse's neck and joined its ends together. Immediately, the Tricky Ring transformed back into a silver ring and tightened around the corpse's neck.

Then he dressed the corpse in his own clothes and used a few disguise techniques to make slight adjustments to the details. Before long, when he looked again...

If their faces were not different, no one would be able to distinguish the bodies.

Qin Yang nodded in satisfaction and continued handling the remaining details...

Meanwhile, in the dead of night west of Green Forest City, the usual peace had also vanished...

A masked Black-Clothed Man felt his way along the wall to the base of the Three Mountains Gang's compound. Then, with a sway of his body, he became like a boneless creature, sliding up while pressed against the wall. Like a black python, he climbed over the wall while clinging to its surface, silent and soundless. Even if someone were looking in this direction, they might not notice him...

The newcomer lay prone on the ground and slowly wriggled forward. Before long, he reached the rear courtyard. He glanced at the pile of fragmented corpses in the center of the yard, and especially when he saw the tattooed areas on the corpses, a glint flashed through his eyes. He continued hugging the ground as he darted along the wall toward the rooms where the Corpse Collectors rested...

In little more than a dozen breaths, the Black-Clothed Man crawled out of the first room and headed into the second...

Meanwhile, in a residence diagonally opposite the Three Mountains Gang, Steward Qiu of Ten Thousand Eternity Commerce sat facing a pale, beardless young man.

"Are you sure there won't be a problem with this? Keeping the news sealed is the most important thing." Holding a teacup, the young man furrowed his brows slightly, seeming somewhat dissatisfied...

"No, no, this is best as it is. Outsiders will think we have still found nothing. Those mud-legged peasants may reek of corpses, but they did a fine job skinning and processing them. I saw the map they pieced together. It was very good. Other than making a great fanfare and summoning many guest elders from the chamber of commerce to handle it, this is already the best outcome..."

"Can the tattoo map be used?" The young man still seemed dissatisfied...

"Though it is not as precise as the original map, there is not the slightest discrepancy in the general outline. Everything it can point out has been pointed out. The place we are going is the Seated Transcendence Land of the Purple Firmament Dao Lord. No matter how detailed the map is, it will not be of much use. In the end, we will still have to rely on strength."

"I hope nothing goes wrong. According to the information we obtained, the Purple Firmament Dao Lord crossed the Dead Sea in those days. He held not only a top-grade Treasure Artifact, but also the Purple Firmament Dao Scripture. That is all I will say. You know what to do." The young man sipped his tea, his gaze cold and sharp.

"The Purple Firmament Dao Scripture!" Steward Qiu cried out, his expression aghast. "Isn't that just a legend? Wasn't it said to have been lost long ago?"

"Hmph. It was not lost, merely more than half incomplete. Even so, it is absolutely a supreme cultivation art unlike any we have ever had here. Scripture, canon, method, formula—the four great ranks. The highest we have ever seen is no more than a top-grade 'method'-rank art. Whether we can glimpse the mysteries of a 'scripture'-rank divine art in our lifetimes depends on this opportunity."

"I understand. Rest assured." Steward Qiu suppressed the shock in his heart, his eyes flickering. "I made preparations long ago. We are only acting this way now to avoid drawing attention. Once the map is pieced together tomorrow, those Corpse Collectors, even the Servants who came into contact with this matter, will all be silenced forever. This news will not leak."

At the same time, within the Three Mountains Gang, the Black-Clothed Man had silently slipped through more than a dozen rooms and was about to reach Qin Yang's room...

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