Outside the Northern Darkness Sect's residence, Four Seas Peddlers who had come upon hearing the news crowded together, all talking over one another about the extraordinary happenings at the Mountains and Seas Tower.
Inside the mansion, several Gu Masters from the Northern Darkness Sect patrolled the corridors to prevent anyone covetous from breaking in or snooping.
Meanwhile, in the master bedroom of the rear residence, the doors and windows were shut, and Witch Garments and various silver ornaments lay on a clothes rack.
Empress Dowager Guo had regained her imposing figure and wore a burgundy house dress. Her naturally fair skin, red dress, and red hair made her look incomparably radiant, yet her brows still carried some of the heroic bearing of the strongest female martial artist of the age.
At that moment, Empress Dowager Guo sat cross-legged on the couch with her back straight. An open box stood before her, holding the mask, the Vermilion Bird. Faint streams of light still flowed across its surface, and its empty eyeholes seemed to carry a hint of divinity, lending it an awe-inspiring solemnity.
As an Immortal Ascendant who had lived through the Witch Cult Rebellion, Empress Dowager Guo understood the weight of this object very well. The Vermilion Bird was the Dharma Artifact of the Ancestral Witch Zhu Man. Commanding Blazing True Fire was merely an incidental function; its true attribute was "Spirit Communion," what ordinary people called Spirit Possession.
But a patriarch of the Daoist Sect had once said-all instances of possession were commonplace worldly tricks, not the true Dao.
Thus, this Spirit Possession did not mean inviting some conscious deity into one's body. It meant establishing a connection with heaven and earth, or rather, becoming part of them and gaining limited control over their laws.
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