The group searched the Ice Crystal Palace inside and out, nearly digging three feet into the ground, but in the end, they found no unexpected surprises.
The Ice Crystal Palace was like a crystal coffin, completely sealed. No one knew how the Yellow Robe Daoist and the other four had gotten inside.
After leaving the Ice Crystal Palace, Chu Yang led the group back along the Ghost Vein they had taken on the way in. Blue light flowed through his eyes as he studied that ancient scripture.
What the ancient scripture recorded was neither a cultivation technique nor a secret art of offense. It was a somewhat sinister method.
The ancient scripture was called the Five Fiends Diagram, created specifically for the Dao Palace Realm.
The reason it was called sinister was because cultivating the Five Fiends Diagram required "refining people"—living people, at that!
Living people were treated as Demon Guides and refined into the Dao Palace divine treasury, transforming the five deities into demon gods.
The stronger the Demon Guide's constitution, the stronger the demon god would be.
Once the Five Fiends Diagram reached completion, one could fuse the five Demon Guides into one's own body.
To give a simple example, if Chu Yang cultivated the Five Fiends Diagram and used five God-King Bodies as Demon Guides, he could possess all five God-King Bodies at once!
Of course, that was only theoretical. The scripture clearly warned that even someone with a terrifying constitution could have their Dao Palace divine treasury bear at most two divine bodies as Demon Guides, much less God-King Bodies.
The Desolate Ancient Holy Body was an even greater taboo of the Five Fiends Diagram. Leaving aside how difficult it was to refine a Desolate Ancient Holy Body into a Demon Guide, even if it succeeded,