Chapter 2: The Wealth of the Dead (Part 2)

  The hundred turns of the heavenly tribulation is what the white-haired old man learned from his fifteen years of hard work on Mount Guiyuan. This technique is not outstanding and can only be considered a basic foundation for cultivating immortals, with the purpose of allowing cultivators to refine their so-called acquired spiritual roots within their bodies. Therefore, after returning to Manlong Island, the white-haired old man not only established a school but also passed on this technique to all the islanders, especially the new generation of children on Manlong Island, who must start cultivating from the moment they understand things.

  As soon as he saw that they were two cultivation techniques, Leng Yun's heart immediately came back to life. Especially since these two techniques actually originated from a celestial being, Leng Yun naturally classified them as part of the celestial scriptures. The excitement and passion were simply indescribable.

  After a careful reading, Leng Yun finally chose the first book as "Blood Prison Floating Pagoda". As for the reason, it was multi-faceted. Firstly, this book looked like it had the most words. Although this book was almost as thick as "Jiuyou Xiu Luo", the number of words per page was more than three times that of "Jiuyou Xiu Luo", and each page had a cultivation pattern, unlike Jiuyou Xiu Luo, which not only had fewer words but also recorded blood-red characters. The bloody smell when opening the book made Leng Yun feel unbearable, even though he had grown up in the lake since childhood.

  The entire "Blood Prison Pagoda" has 36 pages, divided into 18 layers, with each layer's technique being exactly two pages. This was also the first reason why Leng Yun chose it, because he was twice as high as the nine-layered technique of Qian Jie Bai Zhuan, and eighteen times higher than the "Nine Nether Shura" next to it, which had no distinction between layers. According to Leng Yun's current thinking, the more layered a technique is, the more powerful it is!

  "Huh?"

  "The Blood Prison Pagoda" seemed easy to enter, and Leng Yun quickly mobilized his Qi like a seasoned practitioner of the Thousand Cycle Reincarnation. Everyone on the entire island knew that Leng Yun was a genius because two years ago, when he had just turned ten, he had already mastered the Thousand Cycle Reincarnation, while the second-best person on the island at the time had only reached the sixth layer. The small island had even celebrated for several days because, according to the white-haired elder's words, mastering the Thousand Cycle Reincarnation was equivalent to having a spiritual root. As long as Leng Yun waited until he turned eighteen, he could go out and find a fairy mountain to worship a god and enter the immortal gate.

  After practicing the first layer of "Blood Prison Pagoda" for eighteen cycles, completing a full cycle, Leng Yun involuntarily stopped his cultivation. He discovered that this technique was surprisingly different from "Thousand Calamities Hundred Turns". The final energy storage point of "Thousand Calamities Hundred Turns" is the dantian below the abdomen, and the entire cultivation process is constantly pouring the spiritual energy of the whole body into the dantian, eventually forming an energy ball inside the dantian. On the contrary, "Blood Prison Pagoda" pours spiritual energy into the baihui acupoint on the top of the head. The old man with white hair had warned when teaching "Thousand Calamities Hundred Turns" that the baihui is the gate of human spirit and energy, and any slight damage would harm one's own divine soul and have nothing to do with the immortal way.

  After a moment of contemplation, Leng Yun finally put down the "Blood Prison Pagoda" and picked up the "Nine Underworlds Shura". To say the least, this technique was much simpler than the "Blood Prison Pagoda", and the descriptions in the book were far easier to understand. However, as he read on, he couldn't shake off the feeling that something was off about this book. Especially those red characters - they seemed to be flowing like rivers of blood, leaving him with a sense of unease.

  Once.

  The cultivation speed of the Nine You Repair is very slow, and the meridians through which the air flows are mostly different from those of the Thousand Calamities Hundred Turns. If it weren't for Leng Yun having seen a diagram of human acupoints and meridians brought back by an old white-haired man in the school, he would have been completely at a loss when faced with this Nine Repair You Luo technique.

  Two rounds, three rounds. After the third round, a strange true yuan suddenly gushed out quickly from the dantian, and as soon as Cold Cloud discovered this situation, he wanted to stop cultivating immediately, because this abnormality was not described in the book, but unfortunately, before Cold Cloud could react, the true yuan had already flowed into the "Nine You Shura" book placed on his knees.

  "Huh!" A deep, unusual voice, as if it had just woken up from sleep, suddenly echoed in Leng Yun's mind, and her heart seemed to be pricked by something at the sound of this strange noise.

  Leng Yun opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was that the "Jiuyou Xiu Luo" manual on his knees was already completely shrouded in a bloody glow. Through the bloody light, Leng Yun could clearly see the flowing text on the open pages of the book, which were like rivers of blood flowing.

  A book was thrown out, but the book floated in mid-air about twenty centimeters above the ground before landing. Immediately afterwards, a strange blood-red ghost head emerged from the book like a wisp of smoke.

  "Haha! Ben Shura has finally come out again!" Onigiri seemed to be extremely excited, but immediately after seeing the large black turtle beside him, his original excitement was instantly swept away, and even a hint of horror seemed to flow out from his originally empty eye sockets.

  "No!" The crimson ghost head, who claimed to be Shura, let out a terrified shriek, but it was immediately broken by a dull low growl.

  "Hum!" For a moment, the entire cave seemed to be shaking, and then only saw a black shadow flashing in the big black turtle's mouth, and the whole ghost head disappeared into the big black turtle's mouth. With the disappearance of the ghost head, the floating books also fell back to the ground, if not for the big black turtle's ugly face showing a look of enjoyment at this time, Leng Yun almost suspected that he had an illusion before.

  He glanced at the large black turtle, then looked at the "Nine You Shura" that had fallen to the ground. Leng Yun finally picked up the book again. He opened the ancient book once more, but when he saw the content inside, he was stunned. The book was still the same book, but the content inside had completely changed.

  "This book is the Nine You Divine Cult's Town God Divine Technique. No one outside of the cult can learn it, violators will be forever submerged in the Sea of Suffering."

  Looking at the big characters, Leng Yun was startled at first, but immediately afterwards, he cheered up, "Xiao Hei, this is the Town Temple Treasure that the Non-God Sect Master cannot learn! We've picked up a treasure!"

  For Leng Yun, this is a threatening phrase. He only cares about the town's treasure and the non-religious master cannot learn a few words. As for the others, especially the Shura God Sea, he completely ignores it. He doesn't care what kind of ghost thing it is. Besides, in his life, what he fears least is water.

  The giant black turtle looked at Leng Yun, then looked at the strange books that Leng Yun had picked up again, and finally the giant black turtle ignored Leng Yun, directly swallowing the remaining head of the black-robed corpse in one mouthful. After that, it slowly crawled out to the sunlight outside the cave and basked comfortably in the midday sun.

  After the big black turtle crawled out, Leng Yun's gaze also returned to the book. The new content of Jiuyou Xiu Luo had undergone a drastic change, especially the number of words inside, which was no less than that of the previous "Blood Prison Floating Pagoda", and even surpassed it.

  The eighteen layers of the Nine You Shura, surprisingly also divided into eighteen layers. After Leng Yun practiced the first layer, he found that this technique was similar to the Blood Prison Floating Tower, and the spiritual energy obtained through practice would be stored in the Baihui hole, known as the gate of gods. The biggest difference between the two is that practicing the Blood Prison Floating Tower makes people feel very comfortable, with a sense of lightness and refreshment, but practicing the Nine You Shura technique feels abnormally cold. When strands of spiritual energy return to the Baihui hole, it feels like buckets of ice water are being poured into a hot pot.