If anyone else had displayed that kind of power here, they might have been branded a heretical Daoist on the spot. Would you believe it?
It looks like that man hadn't truly reached the Yin Spirit Realm. In other words, he might not be a remnant of the Southern Demon Cult from back then...
Tang Changsheng considered it. Even a Yin Spirit expert could only live out his natural lifespan.
That meant one hundred and eighty years!
But because of injuries, exertion, and all manner of accumulated damage, most Yin God True Persons never reached that age...
And that was not merely the limit of the physical body. It was also the limit of the Yin Spirit's lifespan.
Unless they turned to the Ghost Dao, became Earth Immortals, or reincarnated to cultivate anew, there was no way to survive that calamity.
Of course, according to the supreme Dao Arts passed down by the General's Temple, the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Heart Method, opening the eighth aperture would grant insight into life and death and the freedom to roam unfettered.
It was what the ancient books meant by striking one's name from the Book of Life and Death with a single stroke, then wandering free forever.
Other orthodox, higher-level Daoist scriptures seemed to contain similar Methods.
But whatever the case, those arts were secret teachings passed down through the true Daoist Tradition. The Southern Demon Cult certainly had no access to them...
In other words, even if the Southern Demon Cult's surviving experts made it to the present day, they've probably all turned to ghost cultivation...
He fell into thought, a sharp gleam flashing in his eyes from time to time.
Ghost cultivation had its advantages and drawbacks, but either way, it left them far less able to interfere with the Mortal