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"It was highly likely. After all, the Spirit-Absorbing Technique was also one of the Three Great Techniques of Heaven and Earth. It wasn't strange for the Supreme Immortal Dao to want to study it. It was just that the technique was far too demonic and heretical—surely it wasn't worth gambling away the Supreme Immortal Dao's reputation." Li Xiangru sighed, then shook his head.
"Grandfather, you can't put it that way. Isn't the Forbidden Slave, now a slave of the Supreme Immortal Dao, also learning the Spirit-Absorbing Technique? What does reputation matter? In this world, only victors have reputations worth speaking of!" Li Nianjun retorted.
Li Xiangru stared blankly at Li Nianjun. Only after a while did he say, "Nianjun, how could you think so poorly of the Supreme Immortal Dao?"
Li Nianjun was still a little girl, and upon hearing this, she instead laughed. "But isn't that how it is? You're the one who places too much importance on reputation, Grandfather. Since it's one of the Three Great Techniques, some sect is bound to learn it regardless of the cost. Take the Dao-Transmutation Technique, for example. Isn't it only possible to learn after awakening the Ancient Immortal Sword Body? It's very possible that the Spirit-Absorbing Technique also requires the awakening of some special sword body before it can be learned! So the Supreme Immortal Dao imprisoned the Forbidden Slave, altered her Dao body, and forced her to undergo some kind of sword-body awakening. In the end, by a twist of fate, they actually caused this disordered lineage to learn the Spirit-Absorbing Technique. Who could have known that as soon as the Forbidden Slave learned it, the price would be madness, leading to the sect's destruction!"
"Back then, the Supreme Immortal Dao held the limelight alone for several thousand years,