That man... so powerful it's shocking!
He felt no urge to resist at all, as the fire of madness in his heart dissipated. In his final moments, Han Renshan's mind drifted back to his stepsister Xiaodie secretly bringing him food behind their parents' backs, with a smile on her face.
A Holy Master, after all, he was also once a star-crossed lover.
...
As Han Renshan's mind's eye story concluded, Xu Qing looked towards the Sutra of Salvation reward.
A secret technique for severing dragon veins, an unnamed flame, and a sliver of Emperor's Purple Qi from the mundane world.
The Emperor's Purple Qi was an old acquaintance, ranked among the upper grade of the human level. Xu Qing had earlier given Zhu Huai'an five shares of Emperor's Qi, and today he received an additional share.
If counted as ten parts, Dayong's fortune is feared to have little remaining.
Given the petty nature of the worthless emperor, Xu Qing felt that even without his intervention, Emperor Jingxing's imperial fortune would inevitably run dry.
As for who will divide the remaining Emperor's Qi remains unknown.
It could be Zhu Huai'an, other rebel factions, or perhaps even himself.
Xu Qing casually stowed the Emperor's Purple Qi into the Mountain and River Map; this portion of fortune, however, took up much less space than before.
Apart from the Emperor's Purple Qi, which Xu Qing deemed least valuable, the remaining rewards were of the upper-grade of the earthly level.
Among them, the unnamed flame, also known as Fushihuo, is cultivated from human anger and wrath.
Humans have seven souls and seven emotions: the Corpse Dog presides over joy, Fushi presides over anger, Quyin presides over sorrow, Tunzei presides over fear, Feidu presides over love, Chuwu presides over malice, and Choufei presides over desire.
The seven souls interact with one another, in which the emergence of Fushi Fire strikes fear in both humans and ghosts.
Thus Fushi restrains Tunzei, Corpse Dog restrains Fushi.
Zombies inherently have neither soul nor spirit, but anomalies exist.
Such as Ying Gou, Huo Qing, Drought Fiend, and Jiang Chen, these four ancestral zombies, due to various reasons, undergo soul and spirit mutations, making them driven by their transformed souls despite being zombies.
Xu Qing's condition was much like these ancestral zombies, with the only difference being that when his soul was influenced by resentment, it was purified by the Spiritual Light and the Purification Talisman which prevented changes to his true self.
Now he, like those zombie ancestors, has a soul and body that blend into one, inseparable.
Fushi Fire is unusable by regular corpse ghosts, but Xu Qing can wield it.
However, this unnamed fire...
Xu Qing tried several times, realizing this fire must be driven by anger from within, for if there is no fire in his heart, the unnamed fire extinguishes.
"Anger fire..."
Xu Qing pondered deeply, and when he thought of the old vixen from the White Cloud Cave wanting to destroy his wonderful undead life with cat, ghost, and zombie comrades, he immediately felt the surging anger rising within.
Under the Bone Temple, at the bottom of the Ghost Cavern.
A pale young man's face twisted, and it's unclear what he was thinking, as corpse hair sprouted on his face and corpse teeth emerged in his mouth. When he opened his wide maw, a plume of unnamed Yin Fire burst out along with a thunderous corpse roar.
Wherever the fire passed, rocks burned, foreshadowing that should this roar be directed at a living person, they would be incinerated in an instant, reduced to a pile of scattered charcoal!
Xu Qing discovered that this unnamed fire, when paired with the corpse roar, not only has the effect of burning a person's body and soul but also induces fear.
"Tunzei presides over fear, Fushi restrains Tunzei, so that's how it is..."
Xu Qing realized suddenly that the biggest function of this Fushi Fire now is probably to enhance his Corpse Roar Skill, giving this sonic technique a mystical power blessing.
After studying the advanced Corpse Roar Skill, Xu Qing turned his attention to the dragon-seeking secret technique from the Celestial Master's Mansion.
This secret technique, to put it bluntly, is a more straightforward "dragon slaughter technique". The Celestial Master's Mansion passed this secret technique to Han Renshan, clearly with their own ulterior motives in mind.
Yet, in Xu Qing's eyes, this spell contains obvious flaws.
The present dragon-seeking vein-severing secret technique can only locate dragons and sever their veins but cannot bring the dragon before one's eyes.
Simply put, it's like seeing fish in the water, knowing where to bait them, and even knowing how to kill and eat them, but not knowing how to fish.
Using the dragon-seeking and vein-severing technique in this situation might ultimately end with only one result, which is becoming an air force.
"Bait..."
Xu Qing suddenly recalled the time he delivered the fishing ghosts He Xiaosheng and saved the golden carp boy and girl, earning a dragon-fishing technique.
That dragon-fishing technique documented all the methods ancient imperial dragon-keepers used for fishing dragons, and if combined with the dragon-seeking secret technique...
Xu Qing clicked his tongue.
What is this dragon-seeking vein-severing secret technique, if not a marvelous method for baiting?