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Chapter 700 35: Immortality Technique? Demon Is the Dao!

In the darkness, a gaunt figure appeared, with blackened, clawed fingers. This person wore a mixed-yuan cap adorned with a lotus crown, dressed in an indigo Daoist robe with pipa sleeves, a black and white yin-yang fish pattern at the waist, and the Big Dipper embroidered on the chest and back. His eyes glowed with a strange blood-red light, carrying a peachwood longsword on his back, an eight-trigram mirror at his waist, a tarnished bronze bell in his hand, and even a bundle of vermilion talismans.

If one were to ignore his ferocious appearance and focus solely on his attire, he would undoubtedly appear to be a revered figure of the Daoist sect.

But upon seeing his zombie-like, sinister form, Duncan immediately thought of Master Qianhe, who became a corpse after being bitten by a zombie.

Jingle jingle.

The bell rang again, and the surrounding zombies' eyes glowed with bloodlust, as a black mist enveloped the area, transforming it into an Asura ghost realm.

"This person has acquired the secret technique, but I suspect he's been bitten as well!"

Fu Jianhan stood back-to-back with the young man, realizing this spectacle was far more treacherous than the serpent pool at Mount Dang. He slightly regretted joining this commotion.

He was actually lured here upon seeing people resurrecting from the Valley of Villains.

The Pre-Qin secret technique must be on that corpse-transformed Daoist.

——Chan Daoist (Corpse Transformed) (Blood Refinement Technique) (Undying Blood Child) (Corpse Refining Technique) (True Witchcraft Legacy) (Defector Elder) (Six-star Silver Gray)!

His power was a blend of witchcraft and Daoism, as if he had mastered a secret technique during the transition of Witchcraft to Taoism in the Qin and Han periods. At that time, as Taoism emerged, the Five斗米 Sect and Taiping Dao integrated Witchcraft, yet a branch of Witchcraft drifted into the demonic sect.

Witchcraft could also be referred to as primitive Taoism.

There's a whispered secret that not many know.

A brief mention is sufficient.

If discussed in detail, it would require revisions.

During the Han Dynasty, the Five斗米 Sect emerged among the masses, adopting a military-political management system, organizing its religious members as housebound citizens, referred to as "seed people."

For ordinary civilians to become "seed people," they had to undergo a male-female conjugal exchange ceremony, known today as the "Rites of Passage from the Upper Purity Yellow Book," preserved in the Orthodox Daozang.

In this ceremony, various postures, timings, and techniques concerning male and female interactions were incredibly detailed, even strict, practicing the "Eight Great Cosmic Methods of Yin and Yang Intercourse" to symbolize the harmonious interaction of universal yin and yang, serving as an initiation ceremony.

This was one of the sources of many secret techniques of the Yin-Yang Sect of this world.

The early Celestial Master Daos's transmissions, the Way of Yellow and Red, weren't native to Dragon and Tiger Mountain, and most people were unfamiliar with these.

The "Eight Great Cosmic Methods of Yin and Yang Intercourse" were untransmitted secrets of this world's Yin-Yang Sect.

Another secret technique was the Tang Dynasty's "The Great Joy of Universal Yin-Yang Harmony," later inscribed in the stone chamber of Mingsha Mountain in Dunhuang.

This originated from the archaic Witchcraft's fertility worship.

The evolution history of Daoism cannot be explained briefly; the Daoism of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period was somewhat different from the later understanding of Daoism.

Daoism's reform wasn't a one-time event.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Lu Xiujing and Kou Qianzhi reformed Daoism from the north and south, eliminating the three Zhang fake methods, and thoroughly removing the study of male-female affairs from Orthodox Daoism during this time.

Those expelled from Daoism became part of the six branches of the demonic sect.

The Quanzhen branch's proposal of celibacy had its reasons.

The concepts of Daoism and demonic sects became clearer, introducing a Daoist branch within the demonic sect.

Lü Zu and others essentially corrected Daoism.

Ultimately evolving into the "dual cultivation of life and nature" in inner core techniques.

Primitive Witchcraft shares similarities with the demonic sect, as they practiced the "Ghost Dao," self-proclaimed as the "True Transmission Dao."

It is also one of the six branches of the demonic sect, an unparalleled secret technique—"Magic is Dao!"

They indeed possess the true transmission of Daoism.

But unfortunately, they do not belong to this era.

Later, the Taiping Dao's Yellow Turban secret techniques were absorbed by the demonic sect to create blood child puppets, etc.

At the city gate.

This person seemed to detect something, looking toward Duncan's position, his expression growing increasingly joyful.

"Oh?"

"There is actually a well-cultivated blood child here? Surely heaven is assisting me!" The corpse transformation Daoist was overjoyed.

What's going on with the Blood Refinement Sect?

Why have one demonic sect elder after another defected?

Duncan killed one in Mount Dang, and today he encountered another one here.

The boy was unaware.

Perhaps some years ago, the blood pool of the demonic sect suddenly dried up.

The Demon Techniques resonated.

The boy seemed to sense something, with the death-substitute curse within him trembling, as the opponent also practiced the Blood Refinement Technique. Although his baleful aura wasn't as refined as the boy's, it was immensely powerful.

"If something goes wrong, stay far away."

"This old monster is coming after me!"

The demonic sect elder practiced the full Blood Refinement scriptures, unlike the incomplete version for blood children, and the old monster's power was strange, showing signs of True Qi being constrained and becoming possessed by the devil.

He had turned into a corpse yet retained consciousness, likely using a demon secret technique.

Something extraordinary must have been unearthed here.

As Duncan focused on the changing situation, a ghostly figure quietly emerged outside the city. Dressed in green robes stained with blood, her beauty was extremely enchanting, surpassing even Lady Jade Face.

Even Daji herself would be no more than this.

——Princess Shaojiang (Daughter of Xia Ji) (Undying Heavenly Demon) (Demonic Sect Ancestor) (Forever Youthful) (Immortal) (Ghostly Body) (Essence Depletion) (Weakness) (Cursed) (Five-star Gold).

Hiss?

Is this woman human or ghost?

She also bore a bloody aura, but the old monster's mark was "Undying Blood Child," while hers was the "Undying Heavenly Demon."

Summer Ji?

Seems like someone from the Spring and Autumn Period?

Remembered in history for "killing three husbands, a prince, and a son, causing the demise of a country and two chancellors," and praised as the "First Demoness of the Spring and Autumn Period," known for her art of yang repletion, eternally youthful, possessing heavenly beauty, driving people insane.

Even sparking the "ultimate beauty conceals ultimate evil" in the Zuo Zhuan.

This woman was actually from the era of Laozi and Confucius!

What exactly have you all unearthed?

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