Consecration and Blessing

Within Liang Family Guard City, on the Liang family grounds, a pile of miscellaneous items lay before Liang Zhaohuang: wooden, stone, and jade carvings of human figures; treasure pearls fashioned from all manner of spiritual materials; lotus pedestals refined from various spiritual lotuses; and more. Yet whether figures, pearls, or lotus pedestals, virtually none exceeded a foot in size.

Liang Zhaohuang picked up a wooden carved figure, formed a hand seal with one hand, and began chanting the Peacock King Mantra. Gradually, Five-Colored Buddha Light shone forth and poured into the wooden figure in his hand.

In his previous life, both Buddhism and Daoism had spoken of consecration and empowerment.

But in this world's cultivation realm, Liang Zhaohuang had yet to encounter such methods. Or rather, techniques such as talismans and dharma artifacts could entirely replace the functions of consecration and empowerment—and do so better.

Previously, Liang Zhaohuang had paid this no mind.

Yet during his elder brother Liang Zhaojun's advancement to the Golden Core stage, demonic cultivators had appeared, using demonic qi to corrupt and control Liang family disciples.

That struck a great alarm bell in his mind.

Liang Zhaohuang did not know whether all the Liang family disciples corrupted and controlled by demonic qi had exposed themselves in that prior attack.

Could there still be hidden ones?

Furthermore, beyond the Liang family disciples, among the affiliated factions, Rogue Cultivators, servant cultivators, and others within Liang Family Guard City, might there still be cultivators corrupted and controlled by demonic qi?

If the scope expanded further, could there be such beings throughout New Sea Commandery City—or even all of New Sea Commandery—corrupted and controlled by demonic qi?

These were undoubtedly all unstable and dangerous factors.

Now that Liang Zhaohuang had discovered such a danger, he naturally had to find a