At that moment.
Outside, rain fell without end, and deafening thunder boomed incessantly.
Inside the stone cave, however, Su Changsheng stood motionless, his eyes icy.
Darkness beneath the lamp!
True darkness beneath the lamp.
He had considered every pitfall he might encounter and lived with constant caution, terrified of falling into one. Yet he had never imagined that the greatest pitfall was within him.
It was the body's previous owner, whom he had always overlooked!
In some bizarre fashion, he had cast his soul into Authority over Life and Death, then merged completely into the Breathing Technique.
Had the Purification Talisman Advancement to Lesser Mastery not occurred, and had it not combined with the Flame Rune to mutate into a soul-consciousness flame that burned every impurity in his Sea of Consciousness, Su Changsheng would never have discovered this deepest-hidden pitfall.
Authority over Life and Death!
He, Su Changsheng, controlled life, while the previous owner's hidden soul controlled death. And the power to reverse life and death lay in the latter's hands as well.
If the Green Snake Breathing Method continued to improve and his Yao Body gradually grew stronger, perhaps once it reached a certain peak, that authority could be invoked to exchange life and death.
Then everything he had painstakingly cultivated would turn to ash and smoke. No, not merely ash and smoke-it would become nourishment for someone else's advancement.
How bitter, pressing golden thread year after year, only to sew another's wedding gown.
How vicious!
What vicious methods!
Meanwhile, the flame in his mind continued burning. The unending supply of creation power made it shine ever more brilliantly.
More and more black mist collapsed out of the mark of Authority over Life and Death, revealing the faint outline of a figure entwined in its deepest recesses.
It was