Cult Leader Hong had learned a full repertoire of spells from Shi Longgu, all originally passed down by Holy Mother Golden Needle.
Holy Mother Golden Needle had practiced unorthodox arts to begin with, mixed with certain demonic methods. Among the magic treasures she left behind was the Heavenly Plague Orb, and her cultivation arts even included the Little Heavenly Demon Dance.
After mastering these arts, Cult Leader Hong painstakingly studied and improved them himself, acquiring other cultivation methods elsewhere and integrating them. He led his followers in finding five serpent Monsters, each with over three thousand years of cultivation.
The most powerful among them came from Cloud-Spirit Mountain in the Sichuan region.
After that great serpent gained sufficient power, it swallowed clouds and breathed mist into the sky, shrouding the entire mountain. Over the years, the mountain came to be called Cloud-Spirit Mountain.
Through persuasion or force, Cult Leader Hong brought the five serpent Monsters back to Divine Dragon Island and built Dragon Temples to worship them. He nurtured and refined them with incense offerings and living sacrifices, using methods meant for nurturing and refining demons.
He also entered into contracts with the five serpent Monsters and created the Dragon Spell. Whenever a believer devoutly recited the spell and invoked its power, wherever they might be, the serpent Monsters would sense it, and their primordial spirits would fly over to help.
Even an ordinary Loose Immortal with many years of cultivation would struggle against these five enormous creatures. Master Fangzheng of Shaolin Temple had once nearly been torn apart and swallowed alive by them.
The serpent Monsters had shattered his protective buddha light and bitten through his Purple-Gold Alms Bowl.
Only a Muni Concentration Pearl given to him by Chan Master Bai Mei had saved his life. Even then, he