Having subdued the Illuminating Veneration Envoy and the Venerable Envoy of Annihilation, Hong Yuan reaped a rich harvest.
As the two envoys whose standing in the Red Lotus Cult was second only to its supreme leader, they had unrestricted access to many of the cult's secrets.
Through them, Hong Yuan not only learned many hidden truths about the Red Lotus Cult, but also acquired a wealth of secret arts.
Each envoy was an enormous treasure vault containing hundreds upon thousands of volumes, thrown open for him to explore at will. Within were not only wondrous sorceries, but also numerous force arts, true arts, and methods for cultivating astral bodies.
There were even some precious pill formulas used in cultivating the pill path.
Even after more than half a month, Hong Yuan had obtained only a small portion of their accumulated knowledge.
As for slipping falsehoods into their secret arts and mystical methods, there was no deceiving Hong Yuan's spiritual perception.
The two envoys had indeed tried a few little tricks.
Sometimes they mixed one falsehood into nine truths; sometimes everything they divulged was true, but they omitted a crucial sentence or two. Yet after Hong Yuan exercised his authority as "supreme leader" and held several friendly discussions with them, both finally began behaving themselves.
Among these many secret arts, the most precious were naturally their principal disciplines, the "Mirror-Realm Mental Method" and the "Taiyin Soul-Slaying Curse"-secret manuals of true arts that ranked among the finest in the world.
According to the two envoys, in terms of profundity alone, neither was inferior to the Red Lotus Holy Lord's "Red Lotus Karma-Flame True Astral Force."
The only reason those first two true arts held a lower standing within the cult than the "Red Lotus Karma-Flame True Astral Force" was that their inherent