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"Demon-Seeding Ritual!"

"It turns an obsession into a Demon Seed, allowing the seed to grow stronger as one's tier rises."

Yin Ming steadied himself. At last, he understood how the high priests of the Undying God Cult had controlled a Seventh-Ring Tier Ancient God despite being mere mortals.

When Lucky Star Lucia transformed into the Undying Bone God—an Undead Skeleton—High Priest Decker had planted a Demon Seed in her.

Her form of life had ended and begun anew. It was as though she had carried an indelible obsession since before birth.

Without the Demon-Seeding Ritual, Lady White Moon's wisdom, experience, and understanding would have grown alongside her tier. A romance that had once consumed her mortal heart would have become little more than a faint ripple on a vast sea.

But the Demon Seed had grown stronger with her tier. Like the path a devout seeker pursued, it had become a scar on her heart that could never fade.

"An Ancient God born with an Inner Demon!"

Other sects of the God Era might not have mastered the Demon-Seeding Ritual.

But they had certainly mastered some kind of ritual that acted on the mind.

Otherwise, mortals could never have controlled gods two tiers above them.

"Whew..."

Yin Ming drew a deep breath.

The Demon-Seeding Ritual was immensely valuable.

More valuable than the previous three or four floors combined. But everything was on the table now, including his life.

If he found no clue to Kot Yukeli, all his work would benefit someone else.

He set down the fourth Moonstone Fragment.

Yin Ming took out the bone bracelet he had found in the Undying God Cult's Ancestral Land.

Its polished white bones gleamed like jade, delicate and dainty, with a round piece of black jade for decoration. It looked like an