Demon Buddha Method!

"Brother Hao, how much damage can this Voodoo Doll inflict on Xuan Zi?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm asked curiously.

Although Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had also read Pudu Cihang's memories, he had never put it into practice himself, so he could not imagine the specific results.

Though it was Huo Yuhao's first time as well, he had at least practiced it once before. He was no longer a virgin, so he was naturally more experienced than Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

Faced with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's curiosity, Huo Yuhao thought for a moment before answering based on the actual circumstances. "As for damage, at most it'll make Xuan Zi shiver. After all, Xuan Zi is far too strong, while I'm just a weakling. The curse can take effect only because the Voodoo Doll is such a unique method."

"Still, the Voodoo Doll itself isn't a way to kill enemies. What matters is how it affects Xuan Zi's Fortune!"

"As long as Xuan Zi has no means of protecting his Fortune, his luck will definitely be affected by the Voodoo Doll. As for the extent of that effect... hard to say. His Fate Configuration is simply too special."

"But as long as it can interfere with Xuan Zi's Fortune, that's enough."

The evil of Evil Cultivators was not merely wickedness, but also sinister cunning. What represented that sinister nature were the various underhanded methods used by Evil Cultivators. Such methods were endlessly varied, and methods that used little to achieve much were especially common.

Experienced cultivators all knew that one could not get too full of oneself while roaming the world. They also had to pay attention to cultivating in every aspect; otherwise, they might be schemed to death without ever knowing how they had died.

No matter how mighty a gang boss might be, once he exposed a flaw and someone found an opportunity, he could end up being casually taken out by some unknown passing lackey.

Huo Yuhao carefully put away the little doll and hid it beneath his bed.

Then he climbed onto the bed. Rather than resting, he sat cross-legged and began cultivating.

Ever since he had been in the Star Dou Great Forest, Huo Yuhao had begun replacing sleep with cultivation.

Sleep? Sleep my ass!

The current Huo Yuhao had lofty ideals and ambitions. To achieve his goals, he never slacked off. Every day, he worked hard, using every means and method to realize his dreams...

And he was favored by fate, blessed by Fortune.

Huo Yuhao was going to grind every person on the Douluo Continent into the dirt!

In truth, the Douluo Continent's meditation methods could not completely replace sleep, but Pudu Cihang's cultivation method could.

He continued circulating the Buddhist Cultivation Method.

After cultivating for so long, Huo Yuhao had finally begun to grasp its basics.

A faint Buddhist radiance enveloped Huo Yuhao, and his expression became serene.

Yet as Huo Yuhao delved deeper into his cultivation, a layer of chill gradually enveloped his body.

If there had been cultivators from Pudu Cihang's world present, they would have immediately seen that something was wrong with Huo Yuhao's cultivation!

The problem was not Huo Yuhao, but the cultivation method itself!

Though it also possessed golden Buddhist radiance and produced a compassionate expression, a proper Buddhist Cultivation Method emphasized either fierce, vigorous yang energy or upright, peaceful harmony. How could it possibly produce a chill?

That was because what Huo Yuhao was cultivating now was the Buddhist Cultivation Method modified by Pudu Cihang!

It could also be called—the Demon Buddha Method!

It was not that Huo Yuhao did not want to cultivate a proper Buddhist Cultivation Method. The circumstances simply did not allow it.

A proper Buddhist Cultivation Method required one to cultivate Qi while also chanting sutras and praising the Buddha, comprehending Zen intent, and using that Zen intent to control Buddhist radiance, giving it both form and substance.

It was somewhat similar to the Daoist practice of cultivating both nature and life.

However, Pudu Cihang's memories simply did not contain enough Buddhist scriptures for Huo Yuhao to study.

Do not forget that Pudu Cihang was a demon. By the time it came into contact with Buddhist cultivation methods, it was already a Great Demon that had begun eating people. The Demon Qi and Evil Qi around it could not merely be called dense—they blotted out the sky and covered the earth, the kind that came with special effects whenever it walked.

If it had chanted sutras and praised the Buddha while directly cultivating an orthodox Buddhist Cultivation Method, the first thing to happen would have been its demonic power and Evil Qi being dissolved, damaging Pudu Cihang's cultivation.

How could Pudu Cihang possibly have done that?

Thus, it had never chanted sutras. Not only did its memories contain very few scriptures, they were incomplete as well.

And Little Huo had originally been nothing more than an ordinary college student. He certainly could not be like those other transmigrators, casually reciting Buddhist and Daoist scriptures at will. At most, he knew a line or two, without understanding their actual meaning.

If Pudu Cihang wanted to use National Fortune for cultivation in the future, it could not abandon the Buddhist Cultivation Method, because the two were meant to complement each other.

So it found another path. Combining the Demon Cultivation Method with the Visualization Method, it used visualization in place of Zen intent and demonic thoughts to control Buddhist radiance. Beneath the Buddha's image lay a demon, thus creating the Demon Buddha Method.

Not only could demons cultivate the Demon Buddha Method, humans could cultivate it as well. In fact, humans cultivated it even more smoothly, because the Buddhist Cultivation Method made up most of it.

During cultivation, what Pudu Cihang visualized was naturally its Main Body as a demon!

The Demon Cultivation Method was simple and brutal: devour the essence of the sun and moon, the spiritual essence of mountains and rivers, seek enlightenment and wisdom, and transform one's bloodline.

When Sky Dream Ice Silkworm cultivated the Demon Cultivation Method, he was attempting to devour the essence of the sun and moon and the spiritual essence of mountains and rivers, but he always failed.

He could not get even a single bite of the sun and moon's essence into his mouth.

Back to the point.

For Pudu Cihang to visualize itself was naturally effortless.

It was also during this process that Pudu Cihang discovered in surprise that the transformative trait of the Demon Cultivation Method had been inherited by its visualized demon body. Nourished by Fortune, that visualized demon body underwent a transformation and became even stronger!

And the transformation of the visualized demon body could actually feed back to its Main Body!

Unfortunately, Pudu Cihang itself did not possess much Fortune. Using this method of nourishment to transform itself was simply far too slow.

Thus, Pudu Cihang set his sights on National Fortune.

Fortune cultivation techniques merely used National Fortune to assist one's own cultivation and combat. But if he could find a way to convert all that National Fortune into his own Fortune, wouldn't the speed of his transformation soar?

To that end, Pudu Cihang combined the Evil Cultivators' Fortune-Stealing Evil Art and created the initial version of the Fate Stealing and Dragon Transformation Technique!

As for using National Fortune to cultivate, there was no more talk of "cooperation." He simply began openly seizing it.

One had to admit that Pudu Cihang's ambitions were immense. He actually harbored the desire to transform into a dragon.

After all, Pudu Cihang's Main Body possessed no Dragon Clan Bloodline. He was merely an ordinary exotic species of humble origins.

But by using Fortune to transform himself, he no longer needed to consider the issue of bloodline.

That was because transforming into a dragon was not a conventional evolution, but a reshaping of one's true body.

If he directly cultivated the demon body he visualized into a dragon body, then he himself would transform into a dragon as well!

Afterward, Pudu Cihang entered a human dynasty and began devouring court officials carrying National Fortune, directly seizing the dynasty's National Fortune to accelerate his transformation.

But Pudu Cihang soon discovered another problem. Although he could transform into a dragon without Dragon Clan Bloodline, his dragon transformation had no dragon qi!

Such a dragon transformation had form but no substance. To become a true dragon, he still needed dragon qi!

Pudu Cihang began searching for Dragon Species. If he could not find a true dragon, then even a flood dragon would do.

Unfortunately, there were none.

In Pudu Cihang's era, Dragon Species were far too scarce to be found at all. If he had been able to find one and use dragon blood to aid his cultivation, Pudu Cihang would have successfully transformed into a dragon long ago.

Just as Pudu Cihang was at his wits' end, he suddenly discovered that the emperor and the other members of the imperial clan also possessed dragon qi!

It was Human Dragon Qi!

Humans regarded dragons as their Totem, and over time, they gradually gave rise to a unique dragon qi. Since the emperor called himself the True Dragon Son of Heaven, dragon qi would gather upon the emperor and the other imperial clansmen, protecting them from easily being harmed by demons and evil entities.

Naturally, the emperor possessed the most dragon qi.

Dragon Species were difficult to find, but there was one True Dragon Son of Heaven.

Thus, Pudu Cihang set his sights on the emperor and the other members of the imperial clan as well.

To seize dragon qi, he needed to join the dynasty.

Since he could not seize it by force, he could only choose "cooperation" once more—albeit cooperation steeped in malice.

In the end, the centipede demon transformed into Pudu Cihang, bewitched the emperor, and became the National Preceptor.

The Fate Stealing and Dragon Transformation Technique was also gradually refined during this process, becoming capable of seizing the dragon qi upon the emperor as well.

The Fate Stealing and Dragon Transformation Technique cultivated by Huo Yuhao was the final version.

As Pudu Cihang wreaked havoc beyond all bounds and seized dragon qi and National Fortune, his path of dragon transformation entered the fast lane. He also gradually discovered the unique nature of Son of Heaven Dragon Qi.

If Pudu Cihang used the dragon qi of Dragon Species to transform into a dragon, then barring any surprises, he would join the Dragon Clan, completing an evolution of bloodline and a leap in status.

But if he used Son of Heaven Dragon Qi to transform into a dragon, Pudu Cihang would ascend into a Heavenly Dragon. What evolved would be his very rank of existence; thereafter, he would be neither demon nor human, but a god!

Wasn't that far better than becoming an ordinary Dragon Species?

The Fate Stealing and Dragon Transformation Technique was a fusion of the Fortune-Stealing Evil Art, Fortune cultivation techniques, and the Buddhist Cultivation Method.

The Demon Buddha Method was a fusion of the Demon Cultivation Method, the Visualization Method, and the Buddhist Cultivation Method.

And the combination of the Fate Stealing and Dragon Transformation Technique with the Demon Buddha Method was a cultivation method that led toward the Great Dao.

The path might have been a little crooked, but as long as it reached the destination, that was enough.

Since Huo Yuhao cultivated the Demon Buddha Method, he naturally also needed to visualize a demon body.

And the target of his visualization was...

I've briefly laid out Pudu Cihang's development and the cultivation principles of the Demon Buddha. This will also be the protagonist's main cultivation path going forward (^▽^)