Leading Chen Luo through a maze of twists and turns to the very back, An Kong brought him to a pitch-black little room. Inside stood a black wooden table, its surface covered with all manner of yellow talisman paper.
The talisman papers were laid out like a tablecloth, divided into three rows.
Each talisman bore three strange characters. Chen Luo studied them for a long while but still could not make out their meaning. Not even the many brains within the External Brain could decipher them. An Kong walked to the table on the left, bit his index finger, and dripped a drop of blood onto each of three talismans. Once the bloody water had seeped into the paper, he took three strands of hair from his robe and placed them on top. Only then did he open the wooden box beside him, take out a vermilion brush, and hand it to Chen Luo.
"You need not repay the one tael and three qian of life you owe me. I need you to do me a favor."
As he spoke, An Kong pointed at the three talismans on the table.
"Write the character 'curse' on each of these three talismans."
Soul Cursing and Soul Transformation, a top-tier cursing technique.
A curse aimed at the soul! It had only ever appeared in ancient records.
The brains within the External Brain that specialized in curses swiftly supplied related thoughts. The Seed Demon Sect Master, in particular, reacted with the greatest excitement. After following Chen Luo through the Immortal Cultivation World for so long, he had seen quite a few powerful figures, but experts proficient in curses were truly scarce. The cursing arts of the Void Realm were something he had never come into contact with in his entire life before death. Seeing