Incorporating the 'Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand'

Opposed to the category of "life" was that of "non-life."

Non-life referred to all supernatural entities without signs of life. In reality, Su Wu had only encountered one such entity: the Shadow Fiend.

Under the two broad categories of life and non-life, All-Dharma Temple in the Secret Treasury Domain further classified all supernatural entities into the Six Paths.

Which of the Six Paths an entity belonged to often had to be determined by a monk through Fate Reading.

Fate Reading could be used on more than just humans.

It could also be used on supernatural entities.

Some monks with profound cultivation could even determine an entity's Original Aspect through Fate Reading.

Original Aspects were a more detailed classification than the Six Paths.

The more precisely a temple classified supernatural entities, the more effective its offerings could be. Its monks would inevitably benefit, allowing its religious lineage to endure longer.

The No-Thought Venerable Power Temple, to which Master Guangfa belonged, ranked in the lower-middle tier among the temples of the Secret Treasury Domain. It had mastered only a handful of Original Aspect classifications.

To Su Wu, the Secret Treasury Domain was an untapped ocean of immense value.

And he would have to conquer the No-Thought Venerable Power Temple, making it the vessel that helped him ride the wind and waves across that ocean.

Su Wu's gaze lingered on the "Incomplete Tiger Demon Curse Mark."

The complete tiger demon curse mark was immensely powerful. It could transform a person into a fierce tiger for a short time. Though a price had to be paid afterward, that price was tolerable.

He felt that, with the complete tiger demon curse mark alone, he stood a very good chance of escaping the area enveloped by the Trapped Corpse Fiend.

But the tiger demon curse mark available now was incomplete.

Using this incomplete curse mark would grant him only half the physical capabilities of an adult tiger, lasting just two minutes, while leaving him weakened for three days.

The price was too high and the benefit too small. Unacceptable.

Guangfa had promised to impart the complete tiger demon curse mark to "Zhuo Jie" after returning to the No-Thought Venerable Power Temple. By comparison, the incomplete mark was even less worthwhile.

It was not among Su Wu's essential purchases.

He then looked at the detailed description of the Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand.

His gaze settled on the last two lines.

Current success rate for incorporating the Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand: 100%.

Compatibility with the host: 16.5%.

Incorporating the Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand now would have a one hundred percent success rate. Nothing unexpected would happen.

Once he successfully incorporated it, he could wield this entity's power.

He would also have to bear the cost of a shortened lifespan and the Vicious Ghost's eventual reawakening.

But now, in the Secret Treasury Domain, there was a possibility of offsetting both these tremendous costs.

Guangfa had incorporated a Vicious Ghost through binding and would face no risk of it reawakening for ten years.

According to him, the No-Thought Venerable Power Temple's two abbot lineages-Great Divine No-Thought Binding and Venerable Power Control-could ensure that a Buddha Son who incorporated an entity, the future abbot, lived beyond a hundred!

Even with modern technology, how many people could live to a hundred?

The successive abbots of the No-Thought Venerable Power Temple had incorporated supernatural entities into their bodies, yet their lifespans exceeded those of the vast majority of modern people!

However, Binding Practice followed the path of undergoing Fate Reading and receiving precepts, turning oneself into a vessel suited to a particular supernatural entity.

Su Wu's situation, in which he could rely on the simulator to directly incorporate an entity into himself, clearly did not fall under Binding Practice.

If he truly incorporated the Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand, he would first have to follow the path of control.

The first part meant restraint and suppression.

The second meant command and direction.

Control helped people suppress the supernatural entity within them, achieve a balance with it, and then command it and use its power.

There were also people in the Secret Treasury Domain who had incorporated supernatural entities by chance or had been born with them. The path of control was a method to help such people command the Vicious Ghosts within them.

Control and binding could be practiced simultaneously.

As long as Su Wu could become the Buddha Son of the No-Thought Venerable Power Temple, his future would be bright.

The No-Thought Venerable Power Temple was currently selecting its Buddha Son. This was undeniably an opportunity for Su Wu.

With the simulator in hand, why should I worry about being unable to become the temple's Buddha Son?

His thoughts turned over and over before finally settling.

With a slight shift of his thoughts, Su Wu issued a command to the simulator. "Purchase one Mind-Root Reserve and the Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand!"

Including this purchase, he now possessed three portions of the power of the mind and Mind-Root Reserve.

But there was still no trace of the so-called "meditation method."

Purchase successful!

You have obtained Mind-Root Reserve ×1!

After the simulator's notification sounded, a cool sensation brushed over the top of Su Wu's head and flowed through his entire body. His ears twitched as he heard the tenant next door turning over in bed.

His hearing and vision sharpened.

The mind-root reserve acted upon his mind, which in turn strengthened the five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

Purchase successful!

You have obtained the Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand.

Your wallet balance is 4558 - 3000 = 1558 origin jade.

Warning: As you have no means of sealing or suppressing supernatural entities, if you do not incorporate the Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand now, it will immediately reawaken in reality!

Incorporate it?

"Yes!"

Su Wu's heart tightened, and he answered immediately.

As his voice fell,

In the dark room, a pitch-black arm with ten fingers reached out from the depths of the darkness. Strange pale-purple patterns wound around the entire arm as it seized Su Wu by the neck!

"Hsss-"

An endless black tide instantly overwhelmed Su Wu's five senses!

He smelled "darkness";

He caught the scent of "darkness";

He saw "darkness";

He heard "darkness"!

Within the darkness, a bone wrapped in bright-purple tendons and blood vessels rose from the ground. Its bones branched and spread, forming a White Bone Tree with an enormous crown!

The instant Su Wu saw the great bone tree, bright-purple tendons and blood vessels spread toward him from its roots, binding him tightly in the blink of an eye!

Pain like flesh being stitched together with needle and thread, then forcibly torn apart by two hands, assailed Su Wu's mind in alternating waves.

Although he knew the success rate for incorporating this entity was one hundred percent,

He still worried whether something unpredictable might happen if he lost consciousness under the onslaught of pain.

Thus, even while enduring such intense agony, Su Wu gritted his teeth and refused to let his grip on consciousness slacken!

After an unknown length of time, the pain receded like the tide.

The simulator's notification sounded in its wake. "You have successfully incorporated the Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand."

Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand: The host must explore this item's specific uses independently.

1. Frequent use of the Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand will cause the Shadow Fiend to appear at random within a fifty-li radius of you and approach you. The higher your compatibility with the Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand, the lower the probability of the Shadow Fiend appearing.

2. Each use of the Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand will consume your energy and vitality. When your life has withered away completely, the Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand will fully reawaken. The higher your compatibility with the Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand, the less vitality it will consume, potentially approaching zero.

3. Even if you do not use the Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand, it will fully reawaken within one to three years of successful incorporation. Its reawakening will cause the host's death unless there is a method or item capable of keeping it in check.

Compatibility with the host: 26.7%.