Breath-Nourishing Dao.
Secret Treasury Domain, Temple of All Living Beings Without Form.
Upon the high platform, Sangji held a ritual blade and presided over the Sky Burial ritual.
"Before the World-Honored One—the realm of the Great Dharma King, this humble monk has now fully understood it."
His movements were devout and precise as he carved away chunks of flesh, offering them for the Great Terrifying Aspects to devour.
Darkness shrouded the land, overflowing with countless rays of [Maiden Earth] radiance.
Upon the earth, soil piled from Corpse Yin corpses gathered and continuously swelled, forming small hills.
Pat!
From the darkness on all sides came the sound of beating wings at some unknown moment. It became bat after bat, circling and wheeling around the high platform.
Sangji pressed his palms together, his face compassionate. Chunks of flesh fell from his face one after another, rotting away—
In that instant, the abbot of the Temple of All Living Beings Without Form seemed to have become a corpse.
It was the Divine Ability—Death-Terror Aspect!
This Divine Ability allowed cultivators to live as though dead, drawing close to ghosts, gods, the underworld, and darkness without being devoured by the Great Terrifying Aspects—
After Sangji had originally cultivated Dust-Cleansing Karmic Affinity, Fang Qing taught him the most orthodox method of cultivating the Death-Terror Aspect.
Later, Fang Qing had empowered him, allowing him to experience in advance what it felt like to refine three, or even four, Divine Abilities into his body.
With that experience, cultivating the Death-Terror Aspect naturally became as effortless as a fish returned to water.
Borrowing the Dao resonance accumulated through generations by the Temple of All Living Beings Without Form, along with the aid of the Sky Burial ritual, he finally successfully cultivated his third Divine Ability. From then on, he