Killing Karma and Killing Intent

Chu Wushang's originally grave expression turned somewhat astonished.

In less than half an incense stick's time, he had shattered all six layers of inner demons.

Even if the boy cultivated the White Bone Contemplation and Life and Death Contemplation, allowing him to pass the Wine Pool and Meat Forest and the Sky-filling Sword Shadows, the final two layers of inner demons—the Cloud Deity and the Black Water Karma Sea—were not so easy to overcome.

Especially the final Black Water Karma Sea. Many people were trapped within that layer of inner demons for years, unable to break through.

Chu Wushang rose to his feet, gathered up some scattered bamboo strips from the ground, and placed them into the half-woven basket. Then he took two booklets from the wooden box on the stone table and slowly walked toward Duan Rong.

Seeing Chu Wushang approach, Duan Rong also rose from his prayer mat.

As Chu Wushang came closer, he handed the two yellowed beast-hide booklets to Duan Rong. "These are the sect's cultivation arts for the final two hurdles of Condensing the Cave of Darkness."

Duan Rong accepted them. Lü Yinlin's notes had also mentioned these two cultivation arts, but had not gone into detail.

Condensing the Cave of Darkness could be called the dividing line for sect forces.

Although each of the Eight Sects of the Nine Provinces needed a Nascent Soul Realm expert to hold the fort, or else they would be gnawed away by the other sects, having a Nascent Soul Realm expert could only ensure a sect's survival.

The number of Cave Illumination Realm experts beneath the Nascent Soul Realm was what formed the backbone of a sect.

Thus, each of the Eight Sects of the Nine Provinces possessed its own cultivation arts for Condensing the Cave of Darkness.