Within the Soul-Detaining and General-Dispatching Great Art was a technique called "Soul Splitting" that allowed one to parasitize and control demon insects.
First, one split off a wisp of one's soul and used the general-dispatching method to control a demon insect.
Then, through shifts in Karma, one performed a ritual that made the insect die horribly and turn into a Demon Specter.
Using the Demon Specter as a medium, one invaded another person's Sea of Consciousness.
It was a sinister Left Path art: one divided one's spiritual sense, remotely transformed a demon-insect Material Medium, then used it to curse someone and devour or enslave their Sea of Consciousness.
It was an exceedingly profound form of Thaumaturgy, a method that could only be used after one's Left Path cultivation reached the realm of "Communing with Spirits."
In all his years of cultivation, Wang Liangzi had seen no more than a handful of Left Path masters capable of Soul Splitting.
Wang Liangzi himself had yet to reach "Communing with Spirits."
He could perform Soul Splitting only because he had obtained the supreme secret teaching of the Soul-Detaining and General-Dispatching Great Art. It let him leap past that threshold and grasp a portion of Soul Splitting's power.
But splitting the soul was enormously troublesome, and the cost of erecting an altar was extremely high.
A tangible rope tightened around the Azure Chi General's neck.
Wang Liangzi had not dared to use another edict lightly.
Displeasure flashed through Wang Liangzi's eyes. He cursed those azure-faced brutes for having eyes but failing to see, for not knowing their betters and daring to tarnish his reputation.
The Gengxin Poison struck first. Metal poison was sharp, and its spread was swift; the pain it brought was the fiercest, and it penetrated the deepest. A group of fanged,