Passing on a Technique

"This is the work of the Old Qin people!"

Lu Baibai and Feiyu Demon King were quite old, and both demons were witnesses to the Qin Dynasty.

Over a hundred years ago, the Qin Dynasty was so powerful that it defied all reason, deterring any arrogant figures from daring to show their faces.

Back then, demons like Lu Baibai weren't even considered important; they were mostly just bystanders who looked up to the Emperor Qin and then fled north with many other demons.

While hating the Emperor Qin, Lu Baibai and the other demons also greatly envied the power of the Emperor Qin, until the dynasty collapsed.

The rise of the Emperor Qin was sudden, forming a cohesive whole when the surrounding area was a scattered mass. However, the Emperor Qin's decline and collapse were also sudden, as if the tightly held mass of sand had suddenly scattered. At that time, the demons, including Lu Baibai, were still lamenting the need to continue their journey to the cold northern regions to escape disaster. They never imagined that such a thing would happen.

The Qin Dynasty's most powerful core army vanished, and the vast city was burned to the ground. The raging fire burned for months, burying everything in dust.

Lu Baibai and other demons also occupied mountain strongholds amidst the chaos and ruin of the Southern Jambudvipa Continent, and attached themselves to the Venerable One who was cultivating in seclusion. After the old demons died, he gradually emerged and eventually became a red demon by the Venerable One's side.

Meanwhile, Lu Baibai, by getting close to the Venerable One, also gained access to the secrets of the Great Qin Dynasty.

He pointed to the bronze door that blocked the stone wall.

"The people of Qin were powerful and arrogant at the time. They showed everything with their strength and disdained using ancient artifacts as protective charms, nor did they like to use old objects or artificial antiquing methods to cover up their existence. This door is only a hundred years old, so it must have been forged by them," Lu Baibai pointed out.

"The opening is narrow and long, while the door is wide and large. How did they manage to squeeze this door in?" Zhang Xuezhou asked in surprise. "Did they stuff a bronze door weighing thousands or even tens of thousands of pounds into a storage bag?"

"They were forged in here," said the Feiyu Demon King.

"Indeed, a bronze door cannot fit into a storage bag; even the largest storage bag cannot hold a bronze door of this weight," Lu Baibai said. "Even His Majesty could not refine such a colossal object made of ordinary bronze and iron. It could only have been created and forged in this cave!"

"That means?"

"In other words, there must be another world inside, which is why this door could have remained!"

Lu Baibai simply explained her reasoning and concluded that this place belonged to the Emperor Qin's tomb.

"Have you considered that this might just be a decoy?" Zhang Xuezhou pondered. "Tomb construction requires concealment. He wouldn't leave a door outside to attract attention; it must have been filled with earth and stones, right?"

"Well?"

Lu Baibai's smugness didn't last long.

Zhang Xuezhou's casual rebuttal made him somewhat suspicious, feeling that he might have fallen into Qin's trap.

"I heard that Emperor Qin Shi Huang was defeated in a battle against the Celestial Court at Immortal Court, and died nearby from his serious injuries. He should be buried here, right?" the Feiyu Demon King asked doubtfully.

"When the Old Qin people died, they would carry their own coffins. When the Emperor Qin clashed with the Immortal Court, he must have built a tomb nearby, and he was buried there when he died," Lu Baibai nodded repeatedly.

"Which master fought between the Emperor Qin and the Immortal Court?"

"Perhaps it was the Jade Emperor, perhaps the Primordial Celestial Venerable, perhaps the Spiritual Treasure Celestial Venerable—who knows? We were just insignificant nobody back then, not even worth a mention of that level of excitement!"

Zhang Xuezhou followed along, touching everything around, but instead of talking about formations, he chatted about all sorts of gossip.

Lu Baibai and the Feiyu Feather Demon King chatted Zou Bugui looked around, noticing that Zhang Xuezhou wasn't afraid of strangers at all.

The atmosphere in this cave was previously oppressive; no one dared to utter a sound until His Excellency spoke. There was never such a situation before, with so many topics for casual conversation.

"Aren't you thinking of breaking the formation for His Excellency?"

Zou Bugui, and he whispered a reminder to Zhang Xuezhou.

This made Zhang Xuezhou shrug.

He knew that the Venerable One had no chance of solving the problem of locking Yang and locking Law Power, so there was no need for him to make any preparations.

No matter how much she tries to manipulate or alter Zhang Xuezhou's physical body, he will remain the same. After all, the Venerable One is not a purely Yin woman, and it is impossible for her to dissipate the Yang energy in his body and break the power that locks Yang.

With limited Law Power that his body could expend, Zhang Xuezhou lacked the ability to stably cast Acupoint-Fixing Technique. Even if he could temporarily immobilize a major acupoint, it would be short-lived, potentially putting himself at risk or causing Venerable One and others to fall into the vortex of the formation.

It's one thing for a familiar and everyday formation like Hunyuan Wuji, but Zhang Xuezhou didn't believe that the Venerable One would risk dealing with an unfamiliar formation.

Zhang Xuezhou was banging on the bronze door, but he wasn't actually doing anything productive; he was just killing time.

However, Zhang Xuezhou vaguely sensed that something seemed to be hidden deep underground. Even if this place was deliberately misleading, there was probably something hidden inside the mountain.

He pondered the tomb of the King of Liang and the underground palace of the Holy Mother of Wudang, and felt that these rich and powerful people really enjoyed digging holes in the mountains.

"How long have you been here?" Zhang Xuezhou asked casually.

"Half a year has passed, hasn't it?" Lu Baibai asked.

"I think it should be a year," the Feiyu Demon King corrected.

"What do you usually eat?" Zhang Xuezhou asked.

"I can find some spiritual herbs here in Mount Tai, Feiyu I can catch some ground-dwelling beasts, and we can easily fill our stomachs!"

Starting with some casual conversation with the Old Qin people, Zhang Xuezhou eventually got to talking about food and drink with Lu Baibai and the other demons. He even started exchanging ideas about Zhang Manqian's methods for cooking pearl chicken and Black-Tipped Chicken.

"Cough cough!"

It wasn't until the Venerable One stepped into this area and coughed heavily twice that the chattering crowd and the Demon King, who were drooling profusely, finally stopped talking.

"Your Excellency, can you solve my problem?"

Before His Excellency could inquire about the matter, Zhang Xuezhou spoke first.

This made the Venerable One scratch his head, and then he reached out and touched Zhang Xuezhou's forehead. Many mysterious words and sounds immediately appeared in Zhang Xuezhou's mind.

"Eccentric!"

His Majesty placed a finger on Zhang Xuezhou's forehead and couldn't help but let out a soft cry.

It was one thing that Zhang Xuezhou had difficulty mobilizing his physical Law Power, but he also felt that Zhang Xuezhou's brain seemed to have frozen, making it difficult for him to complete a single finger gesture for communication.

Zhang Xuezhou's physical problems are terrible, but the problems with Zhang Xuezhou brain are another matter entirely. Even the Venerable One has rarely seen such an extremely unbalanced state in Zhang Xuezhou's cultivation.

"High cultivation level, shallow Law Power, Demon Power barely noticeable, and extremely strong mental power of the three souls and seven spirits, far exceeding the Seventh Realm, at least at the top level of the Sole Self Realm!"

He flicked his finger, and it remained in place for twelve breaths before retracting.

It's a very simple twelve breaths, but it also means that when the Venerable One releases a targeted Technique Method related to the Three Souls and Seven Spirits, a cultivator of Zhang Xuezhou's level can at least withstand it for twelve breaths.

Although the Venerable One's powerful Technique Method does not lie in the three souls and seven spirits, this comparison undoubtedly means that Zhang Xuezhou's ability in the spiritual realm is extremely unbalanced, perhaps even at the level of a top-tier cultivator in the Sole Self Realm or the True Self Realm.

His Majesty has lived through countless years and witnessed all kinds of geniuses, but those who can compare to Zhang Xuezhou are indeed few and far between.

"I was worried about your condition before and felt that it would be difficult to solve your problem in a short time. Try this technique again now!"

Zhang Xuezhou's abilities are mediocre, so it's understandable that he'd be unlikely to be able to deal with the Venerable One's Yang Soul Body, which is formed from his Law Power.

However, Zhang Xuezhou's power of three souls and seven spirits was too strong, which made it feasible to reliably control the Yang Soul body.

Although Zhang Xuezhou found it difficult to use his own Law Power to fuse with that Yang Soul, Zhang Xuezhou currently possessed the ability to control it and might be able to transform the Yang Soul.

With a thought, the Venerable One manifested a technique in his mind, which then condensed and transformed into a cultivation method.

He reached out and touched Zhang Xuezhou's forehead again, manifesting the magic in Zhang Xuezhou's mind.