Hyper-Dimensional Player

He practiced too many techniques simultaneously.

Ji Shaojiang stepped forward, and as she appeared, the bonfire also began to sway, the flames dimming slightly. When this extraordinarily beautiful and enchanting woman approached, the bonfire in front of Duncan suddenly started to change colors, transforming into a ghostly blue Ghost Fire.

Even Duncan was astonished by this phenomenon.

The Yin energy emanating from this enchanting woman was unprecedented in Duncan's experience, as merely her presence caused the flames to change color, with the flickering Ghost Fire seemingly possessing no warmth at all.

Beside him, Lai Bao'Er displayed a look of pain, trembling all over, so Duncan raised his hand and infused True Yuan into him.

Ji Shaojiang glanced at the young man beside her, her expression unchanged, but when she turned to look at Duncan, she slightly frowned, revealing a peculiar expression. She retreated back into the darkness, and once she was ten meters away, the bonfire flared up again, with the ghostly fire turning back to its usual color.

"Your cultivation of the Immortal Heaven Demon body is incorrect!"

"The Heaven Demon Technique is also incorrect!"

Ji Shaojiang seemed unable to approach living beings casually; standing too close, Lai Bao'Er, without the protection of True Yuan, would have been overwhelmed by the Yin energy from her body.

This woman, staring into Duncan's eyes, seemed to see the strange blood-red hue within his pupils, and ghostly said, "You've clearly already slain an Outer Heaven Demon?"

"Why is the Heaven Demon Technique you cultivated still so peculiar?"

Heaven Demon Technique?

Immortal Heaven Demon body?

Duncan appeared to have thought of something, staring into the darkness at the enchanting woman, he solemnly said, "Are you referring to the Blood God Technique and the Blood Child's Immortal Body?"

He had long wondered why the Blood Child's Immortal Body sometimes bore the mark of the Immortal Heaven Demon body.

"Indeed."

Ji Shaojiang slowly nodded, still gazing into Duncan's eyes, ghostly said, "At the dawn of creation, there were three thousand Demon Gods beyond the domain, covetous and watchful; Chiyou forged a hundred weapons, to repress the evil energy, and slay the Heaven Demons, revered as the ancestor of the Jiu Li tribe."

Weapons serve not only the purpose of slaughter, but also suppressing malevolent energy.

This enchanting woman ghostly said, "The Immortal Heaven Demon body is said to be created by Chiyou, using evil energy to nourish oneself, seizing the divine power of Outer Heaven Demons."

"One must first slay an Outer Heaven Demon to truly achieve mastery."

Could there be such a hidden secret?

Duncan was quite surprised, no wonder he always felt something was off about the Blood Child's Immortal Body.

Ji Shaojiang, with a puzzled expression, said, "Since you have slain an Outer Heaven Demon."

"You should be able to cultivate the rightful practice of the Immortal Heaven Demon body."

"Yet your cultivation is peculiarly bizarre."

Unable to resist, she moved a bit closer to Duncan, intent upon a closer look, but then glanced at Lai Bao'Er and retreated back into the darkness.

This enchanting woman ghostly said, "I've observed you cultivating the Heaven Demon Technique."

"And you practice it so peculiarly."

"The descendants of the Jiu Li, revered warrior clans, build their path through bloodshed; yet although the murderous aura on you is unlike anything I've seen, why does your Heaven Demon Technique feed on blood?"

Jiu Li tribe, the clan of the Lord of War.

Arise through bloodshed.

Then Ji Shaojiang pondered for a moment, ghostly said, "Xingtian contended for the heavens with the Emperor, though beheaded, he saw with his nipples, spoke through his navel, wielding shield and battle-axe in dance."

"The Heaven Demon Technique was comprehended to perfection by Xingtian."

"It is the supreme divine power that seizes the divine mystery of creation to nourish oneself. Why then do you practice it by feeding on blood?"

"Could it be you are akin to me?"

"Also possessed of a ghostly Yin body?"

She only had Yin energy, without Yang energy, and thus would never have the chance to master the Heaven Demon Technique. Yet Duncan, clearly a living human, somehow practiced consuming blood essence.

These two supreme divine powers were all derived from slaying Outer Heaven Demons and seizing the Heaven Demons' abilities, the highest profound skills conceived.

While in later generations, few could slay Outer Heaven Demons and master the Heaven Demon Technique, they should not practice it so peculiarly.

Hearing this, Duncan was momentarily thoughtful.

He suddenly thought of a rumored blood pool within the demonic sect, said to be left by Chiyou, or perhaps Xingtian, after death.

Could it be that the descendants of Jiu Li were unable to master the Heaven Demon Technique, and the techniques fell into the hands of the demonic sect, eventually altered into a degraded version of the Blood God Technique?

The original source of the demonic sect indeed arose from the descendants of Jiu Li.

After Qin and Han, it integrated with the schools of the Hundred Scholars and then absorbed rising branches like the Great Ming's honoring sect.

If traced back to before the Shang and Zhou, their origins lay with the Jiu Li tribe who refused subjugation to the Yellow Emperor.

The Wuxian sect of Miao territory, though a heretical faction, had countless connections with the Jiu Li tribe. Previously, Duncan observed the sect's holy maiden and Yu Yaonu's Celestial Snake Bone Changing Skill, which possessed wondrous abilities of life reversal, resembling the demonic sect's Blood Child's Immortal Body.

These techniques likely share a common origin.

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