I bear witness to immortality in the human world.

Chapter 130 The Art of Fighting
Yan Chuyu frowned, walked around the skeleton, and after carefully examining it, said, "It seems we are not the first people to arrive here. This senior died here, and it looks like he passed away peacefully. Even if he didn't have any treasures with him, he should at least have a weapon. Judging from this situation, someone must have gotten here first. How despicable!"

"..."

Wu Ming remained silent.

At this moment, he was sending a wisp of his soul into the Demon Subduing Realm to study several items placed on the ground.

The first item was a strange flag. The flag looked almost rotten. It should have been a magical artifact, but it had been neglected for hundreds of years and had completely decayed and destroyed.

The second, third, and fourth items are all booklets made of high-grade demon hide, which can remain intact for thousands of years. They contain three different Taoist techniques.

The first book is "Secret Techniques for Exorcising Ghosts," a method of refining human souls into ghosts, storing and controlling them with special magical artifacts, and summoning them to attack the enemy's mind and soul when facing an enemy. Wu Ming only glanced at it before judging it to be a heretical and unorthodox method.

The second volume is "The Secret Method of Corpse Refining," which is also an unorthodox method. It describes the techniques of refining and controlling corpse puppets. It describes four levels of corpse puppets: gold, silver, bronze, and iron. The highest level, the gold corpse, is extremely powerful and can even rival a master who has achieved four levels of blood coagulation.

The third volume is "Earthly Fiend Primordial Magic Form". Judging from its name, it may seem like a heretical or unorthodox method, but it is not. It is a legitimate Taoist secret technique, a form of magic form that can only be practiced after the primordial spirit has undergone four refinements. It is noted that it requires the refinement of powerful earthly fiend energy and many rare materials such as earthly fiend yin essence. Once refined, it is terrifyingly powerful. One can even wrap the physical body inside this form and travel underground.

"This Earthly Fiend Yuan Magic Form has its merits, while the other two unorthodox methods are of little use."

Wu Ming seemed to be deep in thought.

outside world.

Yan Chuyu had thoroughly searched the remains, but in the end, she had no choice but to accept her fate.

"It seems we really are a step too late."

"..."

Wu Ming remained silent.

Seeing Wu Ming remain silent, Yan Chuyu took a deep breath and comforted him, saying, "Let's go. Even if someone has been here, there must be other things here. This kind of environment is very likely to give birth to spiritual treasures. Let's continue upwards and see if we can find the source of this underground river."

"……it is good."

Looking at Yan Chuyu, who was petite and had a youthful face but insisted on putting on the airs of an 'older sister', Wu Ming felt a strange feeling in his heart. He silently responded and the two left the cave together.

Following the underground river, Wu Ming and Yan Chuyu continued their journey upwards.

After walking for a while.

Wu Ming suddenly stopped.

"Ok?"

Yan Chuyu immediately turned her gaze towards her, her expression wary as she surveyed her surroundings. "What did you find?" she asked.

Wu Ming glanced down at the water of the underground river, then regained his composure and said:
"It's nothing, let's keep going."

Yan Chuyu also glanced at the dark river, but found nothing. She shook her head and continued forward with Wu Ming.

now.

The end of the underground river.

This is an underground spring, where cold water gushes out from deeper underground and flows down the river. Along the way, underground water seeps in and converges, eventually forming a long underground river.

Right at the mouth of this spring, there was originally a piece of Nine Yin Cold Soul, but now that jade marrow has completely disappeared. This jade marrow was not taken by Wu Ming, but was devoured by the Black Emperor Subduing Demon Diagram deep in his primordial spirit, just like the Xuan Yin Jade Marrow he once obtained from He Tian, ​​the Black Cloud Thief.

Wu Ming's primordial spirit floated above the spring.

Deep within his primordial spirit, the Black Emperor Subduing Demon Diagram was now emitting wisps of eerie light. The light intertwined and shifted on the surface of the diagram, condensing once again into a Daoist secret pattern, completely different from the previous two.

This time, the Daoist secret runes were still a mysterious and enigmatic script, and Wu Ming understood its meaning with just one glance.

--fight!

"Fighting is about will. In the Daoist arts, fighting does not refer to the physical combat of swords and spears, but rather to the will to fight against the heavens. Only with an invincible fighting spirit can one achieve unity with the heavens and become invincible... And among the various Daoist arts of cultivation, the closest means to contacting the heavens and the earth is the Dharma Form."

After becoming Liu Muyuan's disciple, Wu Ming received much guidance from Liu Muyuan. His understanding of Daoist methods was far beyond what he had learned on his own. Now, seeing the "Dou" character mantra, which seemed to contain all mysteries and encompass the ultimate principles of heaven and earth, he instantly understood the function of this secret method based on his understanding of Daoist methods.

After reaching the fourth level of cultivation, cultivators of the primordial spirit will cultivate the Dharma form. Through the Dharma form, they can get closer to heaven and earth, comprehend heaven and earth, control supernatural powers, and protect their physical body.

There are many types of Dharma forms, and their powers vary. For example, the Earthly Fiend Yuanfa Dharma form he just obtained belongs to the Earthly Fiend Dharma form. As far as he knows, the Dharma forms circulating in the world can basically be classified into two categories: 'Heavenly Gang' and 'Earthly Fiend'.

The "Fighting" secret technique can control all forms of Dharma and unleash their ultimate power. It can even use "Fighting" as its core to fuse Dharma forms of different natures!
Leaving aside the former, the latter is undoubtedly an extremely amazing and mysterious technique! Although a primordial spirit cultivator can cultivate more than one Dharma form, unlike the soul's ability to manipulate objects, a Dharma form requires the primordial spirit body to control it, and therefore cannot be divided into multiple Dharma forms. Even if one cultivates multiple Dharma form techniques, only one can be used at the same time.

Perhaps some Dharma forms that are similar in nature, or even belong to the same lineage, can be merged together to form a more powerful fused Dharma form. However, some Dharma forms that are contradictory in nature cannot be merged at all.

The True Word of Battle contains infinite mysteries, encompassing all phenomena in the world. It can govern and contain all forms of Dharma. This alone surpasses all the Dharma secrets that Wu Ming currently knows.

"call."

At this moment, Wu Ming concentrated his mind and engraved the true meaning of the word "fight" deep into his soul, firmly imprinting it on his mind.

Although he is currently only at the third level of the Primordial Spirit Refinement, the fourth level is not far away for him. Once he achieves the fourth level, he will eventually begin to cultivate Dharma Forms. At that time, with the Fighting Mantra as the core secret technique, he will be able to easily condense all Dharma Forms.

While he was concentrating on inscribing the true words of "fight" on one side, his physical body, controlled only by a wisp of his soul, paused for a moment, but then returned to normal and rushed over here with Yan Chuyu.

but.

When Wu Ming's physical body and Yan Chuyu arrived at the spring at the end of the dark river, Wu Ming's primordial spirit had already completed the engraving of the Dou character mantra and quietly returned to his body.

"Strange, why is there nothing here?"

Yan Chuyu arrived at the spring and examined it carefully, but found nothing.

"Perhaps someone beat us to it again."

Wu Ming stood to the side and said.

"It should be."

Yan Chuyu was somewhat frustrated, but there was nothing she could do. This situation was actually quite common. After all, resources in the world were limited, and it was not uncommon for people to fight for resources. If she really encountered some extremely valuable treasure, she would even be wary of Wu Ming.

But after this exploration, nothing has been found, so it can only be attributed to bad luck.

Yan Chuyu continued to observe the spring. If the spring opening weren't so small that it couldn't even accommodate a person, she would have even wanted to crawl in and explore it. In the end, she could only sigh and say, "It seems our trip is not going well. Let's go back."

"Ah."

Wu Ming nodded slightly.

He wasn't the type to hoard resources and benefits, but the things he obtained on this trip were mostly items suitable for Daoist cultivators, which Yan Chuyu wouldn't really need anyway. Plus, since it involved the Demon Subduing Diagram, he couldn't reveal it, so he naturally wouldn't say much.

The two left the spring and retraced their steps.

……

Tick, tick, tick.

The underground river flowed slowly and made very little noise. However, the water droplets dripping from the rock walls from time to time were clearly audible. Wu Ming and Yan Chuyu traveled together and passed through several narrow places. The path became easier to walk, but their speed gradually slowed down.

"Wu Ming, do you sense anything strange?"

Yan Chuyu's eyes were alert as she stared at her surroundings, her delicate nose twitching as if she were sniffing something, revealing a serious expression.

Wu Ming walked beside him, a serious expression on his face, looking towards the distance of the dark river.

"It's Yin energy!"

Yan Chuyu's perception was not clear enough, but his soul perception was very obvious. At this moment, he clearly sensed that a trace of Yin Sha demonic energy had been spreading near this dark river.

Perhaps it was his and Yan Chuyu's arrival, after some exploration, that finally alerted something.

Almost immediately, Wu Ming knew what they had disturbed. In his perception, deep within the dark river, filled with a chilling aura, shadowy figures rose from the water and then broke through the surface one after another in the distance.

These dark figures were neither monsters nor fish-like beasts, but rather... pale-skinned corpses!
Corpse Refining!

The thought flashed through Wu Ming's mind.

Among the several Daoist manuals left on the body of the Daoist cultivator who passed away in the cave, there was a Corpse Refining Daoist Technique. Since he had this Daoist Technique, he must have refined some corpses. Obviously, these corpses are at the bottom of this underground river!
Because the Yin energy in the river was extremely dense, these corpses had not decayed even after hundreds of years.

If that were all, it wouldn't really be a big deal, because the corpse-refining process has no consciousness and won't act on its own if no one is controlling it, so it poses no real threat. However, deep underground, there is still evil and demonic energy emanating from who knows where!
These corpses, crafted with Yin energy, were devoid of any consciousness. They were the perfect vessels for evil spirits and demonic energy to reside in. Perhaps it was because he took away a piece of the Nine Yin Cold Soul from the source of the spring, which reduced the Yin energy in the water. This finally awakened these already demonized corpses, and they all emerged from the dark river!

(End of this chapter)