Yan Chihuo silently cursed himself for being muddleheaded. After a long while, he said, "Then tell me the Soul Exchange Technique. I'll cultivate it and see whether I can master it in a short time."
The Qilin shook his head. "Master, even if you could immediately grasp the Soul Exchange Technique, it would still be useless."
Yan Chihuo asked in confusion, "Why is that?"
The Qilin said, "All of us who mastered the Soul Exchange Technique swore oaths to the Heavenly Dao that we would not pass this art on to others."
Yan Chihuo was left dumbstruck, with no idea what to do.
Seeing this, the Qilin instead comforted Yan Chihuo. "Master, this should be a good thing. Your cultivation is higher and you know more. Now that you are free, perhaps you can find a way to remove this God-Binding Rope. As for me, I could never accomplish such a thing no matter what."
Yan Chihuo gave a wry smile. "This God-Binding Rope is Ji Lan's life-bound transformed spirit treasure. Unless it is forcibly destroyed—but how could a transformed spirit treasure be so easily destroyed? Besides, if I make even the slightest move against it, Ji Lan will know at once."
The Qilin said, "No matter what, there is at least a little more hope."
Yan Chihuo said, "I should first familiarize myself with this body of yours." With that, he closed his eyes and circulated his mana. This Qilin's mana was quite profound, though its foundation was somewhat unstable.
Unable to think of any way to deal with the God-Binding Rope, Yan Chihuo began consolidating the Qilin's cultivation. Yan Chihuo himself was at the middle phase of the Dao Integration Stage; stabilizing the cultivation of a demon at the early Origin Core Stage was naturally as easy as