Chapter 1638: See One, Kill One
Back in the day, King Taishan managed to spread the Immortal Life-Bearing Art of the Mystical Source of the Spirit across the entire world and rapidly grew his strength. It had also saved him from many otherwise guaranteed deaths.
It was the same case here. His true body was slain, so logically speaking, he should be dead. In reality, he was still alive. It was all thanks to the Immortal Life-Bearing Art of the Mystical Source of the Spirit.
He was the one who secretly raised the Ghost Ancestor of Mount Mang. He was the one who made the Ghost Ancestor of Mount Mang create the Ghost Gate of Mount Mang. Moreover, everyone in the sect including the now deceased Ghost Ancestor of Mount Mang had practiced the Immortal Life-Bearing Art of the Mystical Source of the Spirit. That was why his soul and consciousness existed in all of them.
Although his true body was slain, his soul and consciousness continued to exist in countless people’s bodies. So long as these wisps of soul and consciousness still existed, King Taishan would never die.
The art was the roots of his power and his greatest self-preservation trump card. Moreover, it would surely earn the wariness and ire of the entire world if its characteristics were made known. That was why he never spread the art openly or even revealed its name to others. Instead, he hid the essence of the art in ordinary martial arts so that people would come to practice it without knowing.
The art itself was extremely inconspicuous. It was impossible for an outsider to find out if someone was practicing the Immortal Life-Bearing Art of the Mystical Source of the Spirit.
This was why no one had ever discovered its existence even though tens of thousands of years had passed since King Taishan invented the art.
One more thing. The Earthly Sovereign had not yet been born when the Immortal Life-Bearing Art of the Mystical Source of the Spirit was popularized. When he was born, King Taishan no longer needed the art to improve his power. Therefore, neither the Earthly Sovereign nor the Soul Collector should know about the existence of the art. That would be the logical assumption.
However, he was wrong. As it turned out, the Soul Collector was aware of the art’s existence. Not only that, he knew about his plan as well. It felt as if the Soul Collector had exposed his greatest secret and trump card for all of the world. Naturally, the sheer shock and disbelief King Taishan received shook him to his very core.
The plan he was speaking of was very simple. He was simply going to repeat his plan in the ancient times and spread the Immortal Life-Bearing Art of the Mystical Source of the Spirit throughout the world once more. He would make countless living beings nourish him in hopes of quickly regaining his strength.