Mo Caihuan took out the Heavenly Demon Root she had not used in a long time and summoned Heavenly Demons again, attempting to absorb their demonic energy.
With the Heavenly Demon Art's assistance, absorption had gone smoothly before. Now, without a cultivation method, she could only feel her way through absorbing the Heavenly Demons' demonic energy.
Fortunately, the Cultivation World had many methods for absorbing others' cultivated power, and Mo Caihuan had learned a few from the Covering Moon Sect's Book Pavilion.
Once she completed the first step of extraction, she could leave the rest to the Plain Maiden Reincarnation Art's Origin Returning Method, which converted demonic energy into primordial energy.
Through reincarnation, all demonic nature was purged.
The Heavenly Demons did not die after losing their demonic energy. They merely became muddleheaded, turning into incorporeal walking corpses.
Following the principle of wasting nothing, Mo Caihuan refined the low-level Heavenly Demons stripped of their demonic energy into Shadow Soldiers. They normally hid in her shadow, and she summoned them when needed to fight like puppets.
"These Soul-Extinguishing Restrictions work quite well. They're effective against Heavenly Demons too." Mo Caihuan used a restriction technique from the Restrictions Secret Scroll, a means for the strong to control the weak. It directly extinguished the soul and controlled the body.
It was useless against enemies of the same level, but exceptionally effective against lesser heavenly demons.
"As expected of the Restrictions Secret Scroll, which recorded the Heart-Trapping Technique. I ought to study its restrictions properly." Mo Caihuan now summoned Heavenly Demons, absorbed their demonic energy, placed restrictions on them, and tossed them into her shadow.
The whole sequence flowed like drifting clouds and running water. No one would ever know that her shadow was packed full of an entire Shadow Legion.
Sometimes, she even