"Forest of Yama Water Prison..."
Those few words were bloody, wild, and terrifying, brimming with a crazed madness that struck him with inexplicable force.
Mo Hua's gaze darkened slightly.
His earlier guess had indeed been correct.
Since the Water Prison Forbidden Box contained the word "forbidden," it was not merely the Sect Master's "forbidden object"—it truly concealed a forbidden technique.
And this forbidden technique was incomplete, seemingly developed only halfway.
The question was...
Mo Hua frowned.
Who exactly had been researching this forbidden technique?
The successive Sect Masters of the Water Prison Sect, or... the Water Prison Sect's ancestor?
And what direction had their research taken?
What sort of forbidden technique had the Water Prison Sect been trying to develop?
Mo Hua sank his Divine Consciousness into the Jade Slip and roughly skimmed through the forbidden technique's development manuscript, picking out only what he could understand. His eyes gradually widened, and the more he read, the more alarmed he became.
The Jade Slip's contents were profound and difficult; he could only grasp the rough outline.
This appeared to be...
A forbidden technique research project intended to combine the Water Prison Sect's superior control cultivation art, the "Water Prison Art," with the top-secret "Seven Souls Blood Prison Pupil Technique."
It deconstructed the structure of the pupil technique and the formulas of the Water Prison Art, connecting soul-based techniques with Lingli spells, then fusing them into an exceptionally unusual "forbidden cultivation art."
This was the underlying principle of the forbidden technique known as "Forest of Yama Water Prison."
"The Water Prison Sect truly had astounding ambition..."
Mo Hua was shaken, then fell into silent contemplation.
The Blood Pupil Technique was powerful, and the Water Prison Art was powerful as well, but both had their own flaws.
Pupil techniques had to catch the