Hongku and Jin Chang

"The Incantation on me was lifted just like that?"

In the black stone residence, Hongku gently snapped the guiding jade in two.

Wu Chao could hardly believe the Incantation on him had vanished just like that.

"Though you and I are no longer master and disciple, we once had that bond. Otherwise, how about I pass this Incantation Technique on to you?" Hongku said.

"I..."

Hongku made the offer with remarkable generosity.

But Wu Chao knew full well the price of cultivating Hongku's Incantation Technique.

This Incantation Technique was excellent for preserving one's life, but it would inevitably leave one's family ruined and dead.

Once he learned of it, Wu Chao felt that one day he would surely be unable to resist cultivating it.

And that would make him a second Hongku.

Wu Chao did not want to repeat Hongku's life.

He hesitated for a moment, then shook his head vigorously.

"You won't even look at the Incantation Technique to verify whether it's genuine?" Hongku asked expressionlessly.

"There's no harm in looking. How about letting me take a peek?" Jin Chang chimed in.

"I don't mind letting you take a peek, but Wu Chao has a cautionary example before him. If you still want to teach this student, I'm afraid it wouldn't be appropriate for you to look," Hongku said.

"Then forget it!"

Jin Chang did indeed have some interest in Wu Chao and intended to use the Nine People Sect's inheritance to bind him in return, but he devoted more of his attention to Zhang Xuezhou.

Even if he resisted the urge to learn the Technique, Jin Chang felt that if Wu Chao grew suspicious and the two young men turned on him as a result, the loss would outweigh the gain.

Zhang Xuezhou and Wu Chao did not