"Extreme Yin, if you know what is good for you, hand over the complete Corpse King Reincarnation Art. Otherwise, do not dream of leaving this place safely today."
Though his words were threatening, Yin Jiu wore a beaming smile, looking utterly assured of victory.
Hearing this, Song Wen did not grow angry, but a trace of puzzlement appeared in his eyes.
"If I am not mistaken, Fellow Daoist cultivates a metal-attributed technique, correct? Even if you obtain the Corpse King Reincarnation Art, you would be unable to switch to cultivating it. Why make such a tremendous fuss over this technique?"
Yin Jiu's gaze instantly sharpened.
"Xugeng was able to ascend through this technique; you, Extreme Yin, relied on it to advance from the early stage of Tribulation Transcendence to the middle stage in barely a hundred years. This proves that this technique can seize the creation of Heaven and Earth. Stones from other mountains may be used to polish jade. If I can obtain it, why should I fear failing to achieve the Great Dao!"
"So that was it," Song Wen murmured.
It seemed Pagoda Temple's Patriarch Fakong and Yin Jiu had shared the same intention—
They sought to use the Corpse King Reincarnation Art to open up another path, draw inferences from one example to another, rapidly raise their cultivation, successfully transcend the tribulation, and ascend to immortality.
That was why Yin Jiu and Patriarch Fakong had colluded, laying out a series of schemes targeting the Divine Blood Sect. Yet their true target had always been Song Wen; they wished to obtain the complete Corpse King Reincarnation Art from him.
But the instigator behind all this was Song Wen himself.
It was through his deliberate publicizing that people like Yin Jiu and Patriarch Fakong had formed the mistaken belief