Master of the Xuanyin Sect of Mount Shu

Chapter 28 Mysterious Yin Divine Transformation
If Gu Chen's "Mysterious Yin True Scripture" is at the university level, or even the doctoral level, then Lin Rui's "Seven Killings of Positive and Negative Spirits Soul-Slaying Technique" is at the elementary school level.

Guan Minghui, who possesses Gu Chen's thousand-year-old memories, is like a college student who has been through countless battles and has experienced numerous social practices, facing an elementary school student.

He extracted Lin Rui's cultivation method from him, and rearranged it into a new cultivation method based on his own knowledge: "What you have learned can only be considered a 'minor vehicle' cultivation method. My Xuan Yin Sect has its own 'major vehicle' cultivation method!"
You can only transform people into wolves, tigers, leopards, and bears—all mammals similar to humans. I can transform people into birds, beasts, snakes, lizards, turtles, and fish. When you transform, you need to obtain animal hides, perform a ritual to refine them, and then drape them over the person's body.

And I… only need a Mysterious Yin Beast Gathering Banner, capable of endless transformations at will. Before you see it with your own eyes, including all of you, including you, could you imagine that such wondrous magic existed in the world?”

Lin Rui expressed disbelief, Ku Tie was skeptical, Shenmu Tianzun's strange eyes shone, and even Cui Haike, Yang Li, and Liu Quan, who were in the distance, stopped what they were doing and looked over curiously.

Guan Minghui reached out and made a grasping motion, and a ball of black evil energy surged out of thin air, within which a Xuan Yin Gathering Beast Banner appeared.

The main deity on the banner is a striped tiger, shaking its head and swishing its tail, opening its mouth wide and emitting a terrifying roar.

Guan Minghui took the banner in his hand, circled around himself, and black smoke surged, enveloping his entire body.

In an instant, the black smoke dissipated, and Guan Minghui vanished into thin air, revealing a huge tiger lying on the stone bed!

Everyone was stunned, even Yang Li clenched his fists: he never expected that this demon corpse would have such magical powers!
The technique that Guan Minghui had previously silently devised in his mind was only theoretically possible to succeed, but now that he had actually used it, he succeeded on the first try.

He even prepared excuses for if he failed...

Before the change, he had a small expectation in his heart: that after his body shape changed, he would be able to get out of the Fire Cloud Chain.

Even after he transformed into a tiger, the five rings of the Fire Cloud Chain remained around his neck and limbs.

The tiger stretched out its body, and black smoke billowed up, enveloping it. After a moment, the smoke dissipated, and it returned to its human form.

Guan Minghui pondered for a moment, then pushed the Xuan Yin Banner in his hand out, and it disappeared into thin air. Then he pulled out another banner from the air on the left.

The main spirit on this banner was a serpent. He took it and shook it around his body. This time, as the black energy surged, he transformed into a serpent several tens of feet long.

He did this mainly to test whether the Fire Cloud Chain could still lock the form without limbs and neck.

As expected, the Fire Cloud Chain not only locked his physical form but also his primordial spirit, with his three souls and seven spirits all contained within it.

Five rings were wrapped around his body, seemingly easy to break free from, but in reality they were tightly attached to his body and imprisoned his soul, making it impossible for him to escape.

He felt a slight disappointment as the object returned to its original state, but he didn't show it. He silently handed over the Xuan Yin Banner in his hand, allowing it to return to its original position.

Divine Eye Celestial Venerable was the first to react, praising loudly, "Master's supernatural powers are vast and boundless! It's truly incredible. Even if I followed Master for another hundred thousand years, I still wouldn't be able to learn even a fraction of Master's abilities!"

Guan Minghui found the flattery very pleasant and smiled and nodded at him: "You should cultivate diligently. When you achieve something in the future, I will pass on this spell to you. As the eldest disciple of our sect, you must strive to improve and set an example for the junior brothers and sisters who will enter the sect in the future."

Divine Eye Celestial Venerable knelt down joyfully and kowtowed repeatedly to express his gratitude for his master's profound kindness.

Others also found the spell amazing, but their attitudes differed.

In the world of Shu Mountain, people hold the magic of transforming humans into beasts in contempt, even disdain. Although Lin Rui possesses this ability, he has never transformed himself into a beast. Instead, he uses it specifically to "torture" others. For example, if someone wants to become his disciple, they must first serve as a beast for three years.

When dealing with enemies, he would forcibly dress them in animal skins, turning them into wild beasts, euphemistically calling it "casting them into the animal realm!"

Forcing a person to become a beast is an insult.

For example, Cui Haike and Yang Li, although they found the magic very mysterious, were also somewhat skeptical.

Yang Li, in particular, was thinking: the methods of evil and heretical sects!

Ku Tie was overthinking things: it wasn't just a simple illusion; it had actually transformed into a tiger-snake. The ability to freely travel between the human and animal realms was a skill only bodhisattvas possessed; perhaps even celestial beings and asuras could do it? This senior was truly unfathomable.

Lin Rui despised the idea of ​​transforming into an animal by donning animal skins, but he greatly admired the ability to transform with a simple shake of the Xuan Yin Banner.

Before they arrived, the Celestial Venerable Shenmu had said that his master had been resurrected and was preparing to reappear in the world to rebuild the Xuan Yin Sect. He suggested that they could be introduced to the sect to learn the Xuan Yin Great Law.

Lin Rui then knelt in front of the stone bed and asked to become his disciple.

Guan Minghui didn't want to take on any apprentices; he just wanted more people to work for him. If that weren't the case, he wouldn't even want to acknowledge Shenmu as his apprentice.

Moreover, Lin Rui is cruel and tyrannical, which he despises, and he wouldn't accept a disciple like that even if he did.

So he sighed, "I was ambushed by the old man with long eyebrows and fell into the Two Elements Six Harmonies Flag Gate Formation that he set up on the spot. Now I am suppressed here, no different from a prisoner. How can I have the face to take you as my disciple?"

Lin Rui wanted to say he didn't care, and Shenmu Tianzun was about to boast a few more times, but Guan Minghui stopped him with a gesture: "You have the nerve to ask me to be your master, and I'm too embarrassed to accept you as a disciple. Stop talking. There will never be a Xuan Yin Sect Master who is locked up in this world! Let's wait a few years, until I break these chains and leave this place, and then we'll make a decision."

After he finished speaking, he asked the Celestial Venerable Shenmu to help Lin Rui up. Lin Rui had no choice but to stand up with a regretful sigh.

“You don’t need to be discouraged,” Guan Minghui comforted Lin Rui, and then said to the others, “My Xuan Yin Great Law is vast and boundless, encompassing everything, so there will naturally be something for you to learn.”

"Master is incredibly powerful and possesses boundless magical abilities. Even a few spells he imparts are more than enough for us to benefit from!" Shenmu Tianzun flattered him again. "Master's compassion surpasses that of the Bodhisattvas of Buddhism, and his wisdom surpasses that of the True Man of Taoism."

Their supernatural powers surpass those of the Heavenly Demon of the Demonic Sect. As long as we do as our master says, he will naturally reward us handsomely. As for cultivation techniques, we cannot force it; our aptitude is coarse and our comprehension dull, so we can only learn basic techniques.

If Master were to pass on the sect's most powerful techniques to us, we would all suffer from qi deviation, which would actually harm us. Master's teaching method, tailored to our individual aptitudes, is the best for us. We should all be grateful to Master…”

Guan Minghui was overjoyed, not so much because he liked hearing Shenmu Tianzun's words, but mainly because the team needed someone to lead the way in fawning over him to boost morale. This person could catch anything Guan Minghui said, preventing awkward silences and awkward moments, and also knew how to smooth things over and influence the opinions of the centrists.

He immediately took a five-turn Profound Yin Beast Gathering Banner and handed it over: "Here you go!"

The Celestial Venerable Shenmu was overjoyed and quickly knelt down to kowtow and express his gratitude.

(End of this chapter)