Wang Qi had so empirical evidence that he hadn’t told Chen Feng about, such as this one, placing the Heart Demon Curse on the Banished Immortals.
The Immortal Alliance ostracized the Banished Immortals, but theoretically, as long as the Banished Immortals did not cause trouble, they were still protected by Immortal Alliance Law. To place curses on them was just as much a violation of the rules.
Upholding the rules is the sa as maintaining negative entropy. Rules are the cornerstone of an organization’s existence. This is also the reason why the Immortal Alliance itself hadn’t placed curses on the Banished Immortals. A single Banished Immortal certainly couldn’t destroy the Immortal Alliance, but if it violated its own principles and couldn’t even defend its own baseline, then even without destruction by the Banished Immortals, the Immortal Alliance wouldn’t last long.
However, Wang Qi really wanted to find out what the Banished Immortals were all about. This related to his own future.
Wang Qi didn’t plan to deconstruct the souls of the Banished Immortals bit by bit. He simply couldn’t do it; even when the Grandmasters of Yangshen Pavilion judged whether he was a Banished Immortal or not, they could only give an ambiguous answer, which showed that Modern Immortal Path still had significant shortcomings in research on this issue.
Wang Qi had also considered that the so-called "Banished Immortals" might just be another na for transmigrators. After all, the mysterious histories of the two worlds and the nurous Otherworldly Analogues indeed indicated a connection between the two worlds; it wasn’t impossible to have more than one transmigrator. However, it was hard to imagine transmigrators from Earth being unable to accept science and stubbornly clinging to mysticism and superstition. There might be one or two fools from Earth, but for many transmigrators to all be such people... the probability was just too small.
There were only two things he wished to find out—1. What was different about the thinking of Banished Immortals compared to his own; 2. Whether the reason Banished Immortals could not Break the Heavens was psychological or physiological.
These two issues coincided exactly with the two technologies Wang Qi was developing. The Heart Demon Curse could silently infiltrate anyone’s body, allowing Wang Qi to monitor the infected at all tis and read the ntal activities of the infected. However, he could only read what the infected thought of, not ransack their mories. If the Divine Plague Curse Technique were cultivated to a profound level, it could steal mories and rewrite ways of thinking. Wang Qi planned to, in a few years’ ti, implant his own thinking into the minds of these Banished Immortals to see if they could follow his scientific thinking and Break the Heavens.
These two projects were all efforts Wang Qi made for his own future.
In Wang Qi’s perception, Shu Rongrong opened her eyes and said with a smile, "This Boluo Divine Fla has no issues, at least I can’t feel anything wrong."
Zhao Qingfeng expressed his doubts, "It shouldn’t be... the power of such a thing is terrifying. If I were that Wang Qi, I definitely wouldn’t be willing to give away such a treasure to others."
Xiao Baishuang said with a smile, "What if he already regards us as his companions?"
It had been over half a month since he was afflicted by the Thousand Illusion Divine Spell, and the influence of the Heart Demon Curse began to gradually appear. His thinking started to veer towards "goodness," naively believing in kindness, hope, friendship, and so on. This way of thinking wouldn’t manifest on the surface but would subtly exist.
Zhao Qingfeng cast a dark look at Xiao Baishuang and angrily said, "Ask yourself, would Wang Qi open his heart to us before he had overco that obstacle? Impossible."
Shu Rongrong laughed, "Perhaps this Boluo Divine Fla is restrained by so of his Cultivation Techniques? Although I haven’t felt that the Boluo Divine Fla is connected to anything else, since it’s the power of the Divine Tao, maybe it could be restrained by his Divine Spirit."
Xiao Baishuang was startled, "Really?... It seems to exist independently; I can’t feel it at all."
"Don’t forget, he is a Banished Immortal after all, and he has remarkable achievents in Modern Cultivation. It is normal for him to have mysterious laws," Zhao Qingfeng said, "We should still observe carefully for a while."
Shu Rongrong said, "At least we can determine that the Boluo Divine Fla itself doesn’t have eavesdropping functionality or the ability to covertly control us."
The Boluo Divine Fla indeed didn’t have this functionality. It could only change a part of soone’s soul and demonstrate its effects after being refined.
"Since this Boluo Divine Fla hasn’t ford a connection with anything else... then its effect could possibly be to allow Wang Qi to absorb your mana, or to transform your bodies into special Refining Materials, more suited for creations like Corpse Refining, Puppets, and the like, or as Rongrong said, to restrain you," analyzed Zhao Qingfeng. "That is to say, in order to tamper, he must stand in front of you face-to-face... then let’s observe for one more month, and then instruct everyone to refine this thing."
Shu Rongrong asked, "Should we leave one or two people behind, just in case Wang Qi really has a trick up his sleeve?"
Zhao Qingfeng shook his head, "I am sufficient on my own."
"But you received this Divine Spirit as a gift from Wang Qi..." Zhao Qingfeng shook his head, "I’ve painstakingly examined it over the past few days, inch by inch. This Divine Spirit is a complete being and doesn’t resemble one that had the Boluo Divine Fla split from it. Its main body is still with Wang Qi; he can’t restrain . Moreover, I don’t plan to refine it for my Cultivation God. I intend to turn it into a Magic Artifact, so even if Wang Qi has left any backdoors, they can’t harm ."
Zhen Chan, who also entered this Illusion, elbowed Wang Qi, "You’re at a loss, right?"
"Heh." Wang Qi sneered, "This Divine Spirit? Heh, this is but a Pseudo God created by the Divine Plague Curse Technique’s Spell Spirit Avatar, following the deciphering result of the Circle of Reason. Essentially, it’s still the Heart Demon Curse. Do you really think refining it into a Magic Artifact can evade its effects? I refuse to believe he can operate the Magic Artifact without using Spiritual Sense or relying on his Soul!"
Both of them were simply receiving information transmitted by the Illusion, rather than actually arriving here due to the Heart Demon Curse’s connection. This was like watching a live broadcast; for the three Banished Immortals, Wang Qi and the others might as well not exist.
Zhao Qingfeng seed to breathe a sigh of relief, "Good, now that I have confird this, I can rest easy. Ever since receiving these ’gifts’ from Wang Qi, I’ve been wary of engaging in any secret activities."
A spark of excitent flashed in Wang Qi’s eyes—there was an unexpected gain! Zhao Qingfeng waved over his Storage Bag, and the ground suddenly revealed a jade stone slab asuring three ters long, five ters wide, and half a ter thick. Two edges of the slab were smooth and straight, while the other two showed fractured traces, clearly indicating that it had been broken off from a larger stone slab.
Even Zhen Chan, who once held power over a Sect, drew in a sharp breath, "The Ancient thod has no technology for creating artificial miraculous natural resources. This slab must be made of natural jade... Such a vast piece of natural jade is rare in the world. To turn it into an entire object similar to a Jade Slip, with layered Restrictions carved inside..."
"There’s no need to look any further, old man; it’s the ’Immortal Dao Burning Book List,’" said Wang Qi.
Upon seeing a certain object, the information about it in a person’s mory would be aroused and retrieved, a process that often goes unnoticed by the individual themselves. However, the Heart Demon Curse can read this information completely.
The "Immortal Dao Burning Book List" was preserved by the Holy Infant Sect to suppress the Immortal Dao forever, keeping all the Sects and Secret Manuals that they themselves had annihilated for study, looking into how to counteract Immortal ans. The Human Clan’s Immortal Dao had accumulated eight thousand years of heritage, with over a hundred thousand inheritances, and an invaluable wealth of Technology. Even though the Modern Cultivators had completely surpassed the Ancient thod Practitioners, this data was still extraordinarily precious; it could be used to study the evolutionary history of the Immortal Dao and expand the horizons of Immortal Dao Technology.
"This is a fragnt, which ans that the Immortal Dao Burning Book List, this Alien Treasure, was accidentally shattered into several pieces during the strife between the Holy Infant Sect and the Modern Immortal Path." The specific details of that ti were unknown, but Zhen Chan speculated, "The Modern Immortal Path truly flourished after the Yuanli Master attained his level. The Yuanli Master was a sage who advocated for the research of the Ancient thod and drawing parallels from it, so the main part of the Immortal Dao Burning Book List likely ended up in the hands of the Modern Immortal Path. Then, perhaps with so ulterior motive, the Holy Infant Sect hid the part of the Immortal Dao Burning Book List that they owned..."
"The seeds for a resurgence?" Wang Qi suddenly thought of a possibility—this might contain the complete Laws of the Holy Infant Sect!
For a mont, he was so eager to seize the Immortal Dao Burning Book List with the Pseudo God, Circle Handicraft, or to contaminate Zhao Qingfeng’s consciousness and manipulate his sense of understanding to read this material. But he restrained himself. The Divine Tao information in the Immortal Dao Burning Book List was important indeed, but studying Banished Immortals and experinting with the Heart Demon Curse and the Divine Plague Curse Technique were more crucial. As long as the Immortal Dao Burning Book List remained in Zhao Qingfeng’s hands, there was a chance to read it.
Zhao Qingfeng placed one hand on the Immortal Dao Burning Book List and said, "I need to find one or two thods to refine this Divine Spirit; in the anti, you all be my protectors!"
In an instant, Wang Qi read from the thoughts of Shu Rongrong and Xiao Baishuang what was about to happen.
Zhao Qingfeng’s face suddenly flushed, and he started breathing rapidly—an indication of blood rushing to his head. Soon, the trendous blood pressure burst through the capillaries, making his lips exceedingly red and blood gushing from his nostrils; his eyes also turned a deep shade of red.
Large beads of sweat ford on his forehead and were quickly evaporated by his own body temperature. Wisps of steam gradually appeared above his head.
The achievents of an eighty-thousand-year civilization were vast. Furthermore, since the Ancient thod eschewed written records, more than half of the materials inside the Immortal Dao Burning Book List were past inheritors’ "Thoughts," representing "True Intent Inheritances." Even reading just a part of this could greatly influence thinking, pushing it closer and closer to the original founder of the heritage. Bearing the spiritual pollution accumulated over eighty thousand years, even if only partially, was not an easy feat.
Even for a Cultivator, cerebral hemorrhage was no trivial ailnt. Zhao Qingfeng had to pause every few minutes to take a break. Wang Qi, observing the underground reading process with impatience, thought if it were him doing the refining, he would definitely add an index.
"Jarvis, maintain surveillance. If the stone slab appears again in their line of sight, or if the term ’Immortal Dao Burning Book List’ surfaces in their thoughts, pull one of my thought threads to it."
After leaving this instruction, Wang Qi returned to reality. (The story continues. If you like this work, please consider supporting with recomndation tickets and monthly votes at qidian. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian to continue reading.)
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