The Twenty-Second

"I gave up my heart's blood in that room and swore a great heart demon oath!"

Wu Chao had warned Zhang Xuezhou over and over not to hand over his Essence Blood, hair, or birth date and time, yet Wu Chao had never expected to do all those things himself.

But he truly could not resist the temptation.

Among the techniques Hongku had mastered, there was indeed an Incantation Technique that concerned the future.

Once he learned it, making arrangements to avoid disasters or pursue and kill someone would be easy.

"He was really willing to teach you a technique like that?" Zhang Xuezhou asked quietly.

"He had to. Those are the holy land's rules," Wu Chao said with a nod. "The true master of this technique is very likely the Dao Lord. Teacher is only an intermediary who passes it on, so he has no choice but to teach it!"

"I see!"

Hongku might have been taught the technique because of his extraordinary talent. As its inheritor, he too had to pass it on according to the holy land's rules when a student met the relevant conditions.

It was not a question of whether Hongku wanted to teach it. As long as he was part of the holy land, he had to obey its rules.

Only if Hongku overthrew the holy land or had the techniques he had learned crippled by it could he act freely according to his own wishes.

It was no different for Wu Chao.

He had obtained the inheritance of the technique only after swearing a great heart demon oath according to the holy land's rules.

If Zhang Xuezhou had not opened his eyes and prompted him to think about it, Wu Chao would not have breathed a word of it to Zhang Xuezhou.

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