In the quiet room of the guest quarters, Luo Hong sat cross-legged beneath a ferocious painting of a Demon Beast. He had already set up a small Bewildering Soul Array around himself, which could block the probing of others' spiritual sense.
Pressing the jade slip he had obtained from Zhou Xiao'an to his brow, Luo Hong closed his eyes and began to study it. At first, his expression was calm, but he soon furrowed his brow. When he finally opened his eyes, he let out a long breath and sighed,
"The Method of Devouring Demons... ancient Cultivators really were recklessly fierce! But only through such methods could humanity carve out a broad path amid our struggle against Demon Beasts!"
On the Immortal Path, Cultivators and Demon Beasts were locked in a struggle to the death.
Cultivators wanted to refine artifacts from Demon Beast bodies, draw talismans with their blood, and empower spells with their souls. Demon Beasts likewise would not pass up the chance to devour Cultivators and mortals to improve their Demonic Power.
The so-called Method of Devouring Demons was a dangerous secret art that required one to swallow the Essence Soul of a Second-Grade or Higher Demon Beast alive, using Ice Skin as a net and Jade Bone as a prison to forcibly seize that Demon Beast's divine abilities.
The specific process was as follows:
First, swallow the Demon Beast's Essence Soul and force it into a certain section of the cultivator's bones.
Then, remove the Restriction on the Demon Beast's essence spirit and awaken it. Driven by its will to survive, the Demon Beast's essence spirit would immediately begin seizing the cultivator's Physical Body. The cultivator had to resist with Magic Power; otherwise, once the Demon Beast's Essence Soul broke free, the cultivator's Physical Body would undergo