I'm the Next One to Die

"If I cultivate the Technique our teacher gave me, do you think I'll become someone like him someday?"

Wu Chao was visibly excited to have obtained the formidable Technique that Hongku had kept in reserve, but he was also worried.

Hongku was fated to be a lone star under a baleful heaven. If Wu Chao cultivated the same Technique, he might also suffer its influence and become a second Hongku without even realizing it.

"What kind of person?"

"The kind of lone star whose wife and children all die!"

It was nothing unusual for cultivators to be influenced by the Technique Methods they practiced. For instance, those who learned sword techniques were often graceful and unrestrained, while those who learned saber techniques were often domineering. Those skilled in wind Technique Methods might be ethereal as immortals...

Examples like these were too numerous to count.

Becoming a lone star under a baleful heaven through cultivating incantation techniques was not an expression of cowardice, but something that could very well happen.

Only when Zhang Xuezhou casually asked did Wu Chao voice his misgivings.

"If you want to learn it, learn it. If you don't, leave it alone. It's not like the Technique will run away!"

Zhang Xuezhou touched the inheritance jade in his bag.

He felt a little creeped out and was not yet ready to shed blood to nourish the jade.

At the thought of having to harm himself again, Zhang Xuezhou felt that some kind of mental illness must have led him to obtain this self-harm tool in his dream.

If he kept shedding blood in his dreams for long enough, Zhang Xuezhou did not know whether it would affect him in reality.

After all, he had already jumped off a building once. If he took a knife to his