Wang Qi casually suppressed the unconscious cultivator, then infected him with the Devil's Great Curse. Next, relying on the Devil's Great Curse memory, he manipulated his Dimension Cultivation Technique without using mana to search the man's soul. Following the natural thread of connection within that soul, he found that portion of soul power the man had separated from his body.
This was the method Ancient Method Sects used to control their disciples: soul lamps.
A wisp of the soul was split off and used to light a soul lamp. So long as a disciple harbored rebellious intentions, the sect could use the soul lamp to curse and kill them from afar with a turn of the hand.
Through the Devil's Great Curse, Wang Qi traced that connection in reverse and corrupted Tianshu Tower's soul lamp for this disciple as well.
After stuffing the man into the pouch he used for carrying people, Wang Qi draped the Tianshu Tower disciple's robe over himself and took out the badges, booklets, and other magical artifacts from the man's person. Among these artifacts, badges usually served as symbols of identity, used to distinguish friend from foe and the like, while booklets were emblematic of Tianshu Tower and might well possess some special function. Wang Qi infected these artifacts with the Supreme Devil's Curse as well. In the turn of a thought, he understood their entire construction and comprehended all their functions.
"This disciple is called Zhou Zejing..." Wang Qi nodded, then glanced around. "An outer disciple of Tianyin Academy. Not bad."
An outer disciple meant a certain degree of freedom. He did not have to work every moment like an ordinary servant, under the watch of overseers and stewards, nor would he receive the attention of teachers and elders like an inner disciple.
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