Heavenly Corpse's Scheme, Tracing the Roots

Since Zhou Yang had been persuaded to accept the demoness Huan Qianqian as his servant, the rest became much easier.

With Nie Yushuang personally acting as witness, Zhou Yang first swore a Dao Heart Oath to set her mind at ease. Then Nie Yushuang tactfully withdrew. Alone in the room with Huan Qianqian, Zhou Yang performed the secret technique of the "Soul Seizing Great Method" with her active cooperation.

Though it was his first time using this secret technique, and though he had not previously devoted much effort to comprehending it, Zhou Yang still succeeded with the active cooperation of Huan Qianqian, who understood the technique.

Once the secret technique succeeded, Zhou Yang felt an extremely close connection form between his Primordial Spirit and Huan Qianqian's. If he wished, he could even cast a spell to directly inspect her memories, or use the Primordial Spirit imprint left within her Primordial Spirit to forcibly suppress her consciousness and control her body and mana.

However, Zhou Yang also discovered that if he truly wished to force Huan Qianqian to do something, he would need to focus all his attention and cast the spell with his full strength. At that time, his own body would temporarily be unable to move.

Moreover, after the secret technique succeeded, he could clearly feel the Primordial Spirit strain recorded in its description.

By his own estimation, if he used the Soul Seizing Great Method to control others again, he could at most control two more Nascent Soul cultivators like Huan Qianqian.

If he exceeded that number, not only would he be unable to effectively control those people, his Primordial Spirit would directly collapse, and his soul would scatter to the winds.

While Zhou Yang carefully sensed all this, the demoness Huan Qianqian's eyes rippled as she looked