The introduction to the Blood-Congealing True Scripture set Huo Hai's blood boiling. But when he read further, his excitement soured. "I knew it. If this fellow really had such good luck, how could he have died here?"
He had thought he might obtain a powerful Battle Spirit Art, but only later did Huo Hai discover that the Blood-Congealing True Scripture had been left behind by a powerful sect from ancient times. By his reckoning, even the Ink Lotus Domain's current three great powers had not existed when that sect was around. As for exactly which era it had belonged to, he had no way of determining that.
Moreover, the Blood-Congealing True Scripture in his hands was only an incomplete version. Apart from the introduction at the beginning and a general outline afterward that had little practical use, all Huo Hai ultimately found was a single Initiation Stage cultivation method.
"Better than nothing." Huo Hai examined the introductory cultivation method, feeling somewhat helpless, but also a little fortunate. Since the scripture used killing aura for cultivation, its introductory method naturally involved a secret technique for accumulating killing aura. Huo Hai did not need to accumulate it, but he did need to control it.
The Blood-Congealing True Scripture's introductory method gathered killing aura into a mass, ensuring that it would neither affect his mind nor harm him. At the same time, it was a secret technique that prevented killing aura from dissipating naturally and made it more concentrated.
Using this secret technique, one could absorb vast quantities of killing aura while slaughtering and condense it completely, laying a solid foundation for the next step of cultivation. Of course, accumulating killing aura required killing, and killing people was best. Huo Hai wondered whether that ancient sect might have been destroyed because it had