The Reason Behind Cultivating Both Righteous and Demonic Arts

One day later.

Hundreds of miles away from where Zuo Shuiyun was in seclusion.

Song Wen carved out a temporary cave abode at the foot of a large mountain.

With just over twenty days left until the agreed-upon one-month deadline with Zuo Shuiyun, Song Wen decided to retreat into seclusion for a period of time.

Release the Sacred Beetle Gu to guard the area around the temporary cave abode.

After setting up the Qi-Isolating Formation and the Nine-Palace Yin-Transforming Formation, Song Wen raised his hand and waved it.

"Thump, thump, thump."

With three heavy thuds as objects hit the ground, three Corpse-Nurturing Coffin appeared inside the cave.

Song Wen began to use the secret techniques of corpse refining from the <Corpse Puppet True Canon> to refine three Copper Corpse.

In an instant, the entire Cave was filled with the aura of corpses, the Sha Qi energy, and a nauseating stench of rotting flesh.

Fifteen days later.

Song Wen successfully refined the three Copper Corpse.

He put two of the Copper Corpse into the Corpse-Nurturing Coffin, leaving behind the Copper Corpse with the strongest physical body.

Last time, Song Wen used one of the two Profound Yin Stone he obtained from the Heavenly River Li Clan to refine the first Silver Corpse. He still has one left.

He planned to refine the Copper Corpse in front of him into a pseudo-third-tier Silver Corpse.

Song Wen placed the Profound Yin Stone, along with Yin-attribute spiritual materials such as Essence Blood, Spirit Stone, and Yinming grass, into the Corpse Coffin. Then, he formed hand seals and cast the Corpse Refining Method Formula.

Seven days have passed in the blink of an eye.

The Silver Corpse is not yet fully refined, but there are only two days left until the agreed time with Zuo Shuiyun. There is not enough time to successfully refine the Silver Corpse.

Song Wen stopped refining the Silver Corpse and used Secret Method of the Corpse Silver Corpse to temporarily seal it away.

After putting away the Corpse-Nurturing Coffin, Song Wen took out two blood-red Jade Slip and began to examine them.

The first one contains a Cultivation Method called the "Corpse King Reincarnation Art".

Both the Corpse King Reincarnation Art and the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art Technique originated from the Divine Blood Sect.

According to the outline of the Cultivation Method, this is a Cultivation Method that cultivates both the physical body and the spiritual body.

The Cultivation Method is divided into nine levels, which correspond precisely to the nine realms of cultivators. Once mastered, one can directly reach the realm of Immortal.

However, the Jade Slip in Song Wen's hand only contains the first three levels of content, meaning it only contains cultivation Cultivation Method from the Qi Refining Stage to the Golden Core stage.

To Song Wen's great surprise...

Although the <Corpse King Reincarnation Art> is a demonic Cultivation Method, it can refine corpse energy into life force. The spiritual power cultivated by this Cultivation Method contains both the turbid energy of the corpse path and a vast life force.

This Cultivation Method is practically a combination of the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art and the Longevity Art.

Or rather, the <Corpse King Blood Refinement Art> and the <Longevity Art> are only parts of this Cultivation Method.

It's as if someone deliberately split the <Corpse King Reincarnation Art> in two and spread it widely in the Cultivation World.

In particular, the Longevity Art, the most widely circulated Cultivation Method in the Cultivation World, can actually be used to plunder life force and help people prolong their lifespan.

A thousand Qi Refining Stage cultivators of the Longevity Art Technique can help someone extend their lifespan by sixty years.

If there are a thousand Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators, or even ten thousand...

Its life-extending effect is likely to be ten times, or even a hundred times, stronger.

It's hard to believe there wasn't a conspiracy involved.

But whatever the conspiracy behind it, none of this has anything to do with Song Wen.

The Longevity Art has been circulating in the Cultivation World for countless years. Those who plotted and schemed against it have long since disappeared into the river of time. Perhaps they have turned into a handful of dust, or perhaps they have ascended to immortality and left this realm.

Looking at the <Corpse King Reincarnation Art> in his hand, Song Wen fell into deep thought.

He always believed that it was because of his special physique that he was able to cultivate both righteous and evil arts, simultaneously practicing the <Corpse King Blood Refinement Art> and the <Longevity Art>.

Now it seems that's not the case.

These two Cultivation Method are of the same origin and come from the same Cultivation Method.

"Perhaps Cultivation Method are not inherently righteous or evil. Whether it is pure qi or Spiritual Qi, or turbid qi or foul qi, they are all just a kind of qi of heaven and earth, a part of the natural world."

Song Wen thought to himself.

At the same time, he had a vague feeling that he could switch to cultivating the <Corpse King Reincarnation Art>, and that the two spiritual liquid vortexes in his Dantian would merge into one.

After careful consideration, Song Wen temporarily abandoned the idea of switching to cultivating the <Corpse King Reincarnation Art>.

Firstly, switching to other Cultivation Method means that he must first dissipate the power of his Foundation Establishment cultivation.

The Longevity Art has been cultivated to the peak of the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, and is only one step away from breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.

At this point, having to dissipate his cultivation and start over, Song Wen inevitably felt somewhat unwilling.

Secondly, cultivating the <Corpse King Reincarnation Art> requires a large amount of spiritual materials related to the Corpse Path.

Song Wen's current situation, it's difficult for him to collect these spiritual materials. He can buy some at the Mountain Ravine Ghost Market, but it's hard to maintain a stable supply in the long term.

Thirdly, he is currently hiding in the Beast Taming Sect, avoiding the pursuit of the Corpse Demon Sect, which makes it inconvenient for him to cultivate the <Corpse King Reincarnation Art>.

After putting away the first Jade Slip, Song Wen began to examine the second Jade Slip.

The contents of this Jade Slip were actually Blood Brow's own account.

According to the records, Song Wen roughly understood the ins and outs of the matter.

Blood Cloud Cave is a branch of the Divine Blood Sect.

Blood Brow is the Supreme Elder of Blood Cloud Cave, and was once Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator.

After advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, her cultivation level stagnated.

In order to break through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage Spirit Transformation stage and even the Deity Transformation stage, Blood Brow set his sights on the Divine Blood Sect's Cultivation Method, the Corpse King Reincarnation Art.

Blood Brow held the Corpse King Reincarnation Art in extremely high regard, considering it to be the foremost Cultivation Method in the Heavenly Origin Realm.

Heavenly Origin Realm is the name of the realm where Song Wen is located, named after the Heavenly Origin Continent.

In order to obtain the <Corpse King Reincarnation Art>, Blood Brow plotted to murder a genius of the Divine Blood Sect.

Unexpectedly, the Cultivation Method she painstakingly obtained only contained the first three levels.

What made her even more desperate was that her plot to harm the genius of the Divine Blood Sect had actually been exposed.

The Divine Blood Sect intends to wipe out the entire Blood Cloud Cave.

However, the Divine Blood Sect's operation was leaked.

This resulted in the Blood Cloud Cave's members abandoning the sect and fleeing before the Divine Blood Sect Blood Cloud Cave reached it.

Other disciples were able to escape Blood Cloud Cave and seek a glimmer of hope, but Blood Brow, the culprit, could not escape his fate.

Under the siege of the powerful members of the Divine Blood Sect, her physical body collapsed and her Nascent Soul was captured.

To make an example of them and deter other affiliated forces.

The Divine Blood Sect extracted her soul and sealed it in a 'Soul Shackle' made of Soul-Nourishing Wood, imprisoning her on a small island in an underground lake, where she was constantly tortured.

Amidst endless torment, Blood Brow's soul teetered on the brink of collapse countless times, but was always nourished back by the Soul-Nourishing Wood.

And so, countless years passed.

Suddenly one day, the people from the Divine Blood Sect who had been tormenting her disappeared. Only the twenty-four Undying Copper Corpse left behind by the Divine Blood Sect remained, guarding the stone hall.

From then on, under the nourishment of the Soul-Nourishing Wood, the Blood Brow Soul grew stronger and stronger.

Gradually, she discovered that her soul had become powerful enough to break free from the Soul Shackle and extend a portion of her soul power to the outside of the Soul Shackle and the Bronze Corpse Coffin.

Just when Blood Brow thought she could escape, she discovered...

Her soul power was enough to control the movement of the 'Soul Shackle', but she couldn't escape the Bronze Corpse Coffin.

If the Corpse Coffin moves even slightly, the twenty-four Copper Corpse guarding the stone hall will all arrive and seal the Corpse Coffin shut.