Once a cultivation art had been sold to the Six Paths Lords, it could no longer be passed on to anyone else.
Thus, Immortal Traces took advantage of this rule. Relying on the fortuitous encounters of its First Hokage founder, it turned the inheritances of cultivation arts into identities that could be directly exchanged within the organization.
For example, Chong He, second on the Heaven Ranking, possessed not only the Pure Yang Sect's own inheritance, but also, as Lingbao Heavenly Venerate, could use One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones by himself before setting up the Zhu Xian Sword Array.
He was absolutely a Dharma Body-level powerhouse with cheats enabled.
When he had been ambushed and besieged by the two Dharma Bodies, the Demon Master and Tai Li, he had simply flipped the table and beaten them into a miserable rout. They had only barely escaped after exhausting every life-saving secret treasure they had.
Besides Chong He, there were also Half-step Dharma Body Grandmasters such as Grand Unity True Person Yan Wuwo and Doumu Yuanjun Ye Yuqi. Even a supreme cultivation art like the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts had a partial inheritance, currently learned by True Lord Qingyuan Miaodao Cao Xianzhi.
Because of the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts' special nature, Cao Xianzhi was highly versatile and made an exceptionally useful tool.
Unfortunately, Erlang Shen was not dead yet. Even if he did nothing specifically against Cao, Cao Xianzhi, burdened by such karma, would still meet his end on the eve of the war between righteousness and evil.
It was an especially stifling and regrettable death.
Otherwise, given the profundity of the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, Cao Xianzhi's ability to preserve his life would have ranked among the very best.
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