Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 998 - 82: Pseudo Emperor Heavenly Punishment

Something changed, and it was formed on Guan Wuji.

The automatic mechanisms set by Wang Qi were naturally more than one. Besides the basic mechanism of playing a recording to let Guan Wuji understand his situation, he also left several mechanisms in the ring.

First, there is the mechanism to break the restraints.

Emperor's Extreme Split Sky Dao and Luofu Xuanqing Palace have been fighting for millennia, and they are extremely familiar with each other's methods. Back in the Qi Cultivation Stage, Wang Qi had used the Acupoint Rushing Technique of Luofu Xuanqing Palace to forcibly break the restrictions of a disciple of Emperor's Extreme Split Sky Dao.

If one wants to completely disable a Body Integration Stage cultivator from resistance, the most direct method is still to apply restraints.

— What? What if the Holy Emperor Venerable uses not the restriction methods of the Emperor's Extreme Split Sky Dao but a Modern technique from some alien planet?

That wouldn't be Wang Qi's issue then! After all, this has always been a backup move. If it works, it will bring great benefits to Wang Qi. If it doesn't work, it won't change the fate of the Holy Emperor Venerable's defeat.

After using a restriction breaking method to remove the spell on Guan Wuji, the Mana Compiler and the Cultivation Technique Plugin then entered his body successively.

Strictly speaking, the Holy Emperor Venerable only seized Guan Wuji's strength, without a bit of damage to his essence. If a person's "life tier" is a statue, then the "strength" brought by the "life tier" is the "mass" of this statue. The shape and mass of the statue do not necessarily correlate. A statue can be solid or it can have just a thin shell.

Seizing cultivation is like hollowing out the inside of the statue. During this process, a craftsman of high skill can easily preserve the exterior shape of the statue, while a clumsy craftsman would destroy the exterior shape. Since the "exterior shape" of the statue corresponds to the "essence of life," "destroying the shape" equals "death."

The Holy Emperor Venerable is undoubtedly the most skilled craftsman. He immediately hollowed out the "inside" of Guan Wuji, leaving him as an empty shell with the essence of the Body Integration Realm.

However, this also provided Wang Qi with another convenience.

If Guan Wuji's mana were still at its peak, Wang Qi's Divine Plague Curse Technique and Mana Compiler wouldn't be able to control this power. In that scenario, Wang Qi couldn't modify Guan Wuji's cultivation.

But now, after the Holy Emperor Venerable extracted the vast majority of Guan Wuji's mana, it allowed Wang Qi the possibility to delve into Guan Wuji's interior and alter his cultivation technique.

Even though Guan Wuji's essence remains, if they were to truly compete with mana, his strength at less than one ten-thousandth of his full capacity might not necessarily rival Wang Qi.

Mana Compiler and Cultivation Technique Plugin exist precisely for this reason. They can quickly help Guan Wuji master a power that was originally inconsistent with his inherent cultivation and temperament.

And finally, the Divine Tao Plugin. This is the key to everything.

The function of this Divine Tao Plugin is to allow cultivators with no Divine Tao foundation to directly master Divine Tao power.

It's designed to work in conjunction with another Divine Plague Curse Technique.

That Divine Plague Curse Technique can seize control of the Holy Emperor Venerable's Parasitic God. This control would then be handed over to the Divine Tao Plugin, which would enable Guan Wuji's will to control that Divine Tao Plugin through the Mana Compiler, thereby controlling the Parasitic God.

Wang Qi had once forcibly seized Mei Gemu's Divine Body "Hongyuan" in the Ten Thousand Mountains. The Holy Emperor Venerable's Parasitic God is merely a primordial entity with divine power and simple authority, which makes its appropriation much easier than Mei Gemu's "Hongyuan."

This spell was developed by Wang Qi after simulating it countless times, specifically to counter the Holy Emperor Venerable's Parasitic God.

As for whether it will be effective or practical, Wang Qi is uncertain.

This time, it is just the perfect opportunity to test it.

"Remember, you must understand the Skull-snatching Taotie Treasure Image and Swallowing World Battle Dog True Skill in an extremely short time. Once you comprehend the Martial Arts True Intent of this True Skill, I shall retrieve your mana for you—only, it will have been transformed into another form, and you may not be able to absorb it. This will undoubtedly alert the Holy Emperor Venerable. Therefore, you must comprehend the Martial Arts True Intent, harness the power, and then escape swiftly!"

Guan Wuji nodded, concentrated his mind, and immersed his consciousness into the inheritance of True Intent, feeling the Martial Arts Fist Intent he had never seen before.

This Martial Arts True Intent of the Swallowing World Battle Dog True Skill is not of the Righteous Path but is closer to a Demon Technique. It is extremely frenzied, bloodthirsty, ruthless, and destroys everything, even mercilessly killing friends and kin. Through the illusion within the inheritance of True Intent, Guan Wuji seemed to witness vast wars and understood how cultivators practicing the Swallowing World Battle Dog True Skill brutally crushed both enemies and allies.

— No, there's something deeper...

The secret of the Demon Path primarily promotes chaos and disorder, ultimately leading to the end of all things. Beneath chaos, there are four branches of power. The Martial Arts True Intents of Sin, Nagou, Jianqi, and Terror Torture reign supreme...

The Swallowing World Battle Dog True Skill cultivates the Terror Torture Fist Intent.

"Terror Torture," these two words, simple and straightforward yet filled with endless implications, made Guan Wuji feel as if he had grasped numerous insights.

His originally steadfast and grand Martial Arts Fist Intent collapsed with a crash, leaving only a strong desire for revenge and feelings of anger. Then, fueled by the fire of anger, thoughts of horror, brutality, and cruelty entwined in his heart. He continually forced himself to recall those terrifying things, to dredge up the deepest parts of his memory he'd never wished to mention…

He had lived for thousands of years, with a life experience so rich that no mortal could imagine. Throughout those thousands of years, moments of fury were all too frequent. In the past, he could rely on his resilient, sincere Martial Arts Immortal Heart to dissolve these feelings into nothingness. But this time, he was pushing himself toward degradation.

Pain, resentment, hatred, anger, greed, obsession, unwillingness…

All these negative emotions were drawn out, gathered in one place, and were actually refined by him into a furnace, transforming into a Demon Path True Intent that sought to trample the world with relentless killing.

Then, a faint trace of blood-red aura flickered over his body.

——Condition detected, Divine Plague Curse Technique, unleash…

Silently and without a sound, the final struggle began.

Guan Wuji felt a power flowing into his heart. Instinctively, he sensed that this power was poisonous—poisonous enough to be fatal. Then, the terrible and deadly power flowed out of his heart channels back into his body, seemingly disappearing without a trace. He stared at the mysteriously vanishing power, somewhat dazed. Then he suddenly felt his heart become hot, the heart arteries entwined with the coronary arteries seemed to contract and clump together. This pain crushed his spirit beyond physical endurance. Guan Wuji clutched his chest, gasping with a raspy wheeze.

He suddenly felt as if he had grasped something tangible. When he looked again, the fearsome power had transformed the invisible monster inside him into something visible. A creature resembling both an embryo and a salamander coiled in the void. Its tail stabbed directly into Guan Wuji's chest.

"Is it this thing!" In a fury, Guan Wuji, disregarding the vast power gap between himself and the Parasitic God, grabbed the tail of the Parasitic Divine Spirit, intending to pull it out. However, having less than a tenth of his cultivation remaining, and with the Parasitic Divine Spirit harboring the majority of his strength, how could he succeed?

Yet some things do not require strength to succeed.

Another force invaded this Parasitic Divine Spirit. The spirit possessed the instinct of a living creature, and it opened its eyes, letting out a scream. This scream gave Guan Wuji the illusion of countless needles being inserted into his bloodstream, nearly causing him to faint.

Fortunately, it was only one scream. In the blood-red glow, the once crystalline Parasitic Divine Spirit suddenly transformed into a strangely styled blood-colored armor, enveloping Guan Wuji.

"Hurry, the Holy Emperor Venerable has already noticed!" After saying these words, the mysterious voice disappeared. However, Guan Wuji had regained his strength.

The door opened. The death throes of the Parasitic Divine Spirit had indeed alarmed the inner circle of the Holy Emperor Venerable, "Lord Wu Qi." A middle-aged man in ornate attire entered with a puzzled look on his face: "Who are you? Where is Guan Wuji?"

Guan Wuji sneered and twisted the neck of this unsuspecting fool before shattering the roof and ascending into the dome. High above, as if trampling all underfoot like a demon, he made an extremely rude gesture toward the forbidden Phoenix Tomb of the Imperial City and let out his wild battle cry.

"Blood Sacrifice, Blood God, Skull offering to the Skull Throne!"

Then, as if intentionally pausing, he shouted the third line of his battle cry: "…Pseudo Emperor, Heavenly Punishment!"

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Inside Luochen Sword Palace, Wang Qi suddenly opened his eyes. In his unique vision, a cascade of ever-changing data descended like a waterfall from the sky, engulfing his sight.

"Huh? Guan Wuji isn't dead yet?" Wang Qi was slightly surprised.

He could not guarantee that every element of his tactics would succeed. If any part went wrong, for example, if the Holy Emperor Venerable used a Skytop Star Sealing Technique or Distant Star Sealing Skill, he couldn't unlock it. Or if the Holy Emperor Venerable used two different methods for dealing with a Divine Separation Stage Cultivator and a Unification Stage Cultivator's Parasitic Spirits, he would also fail.

Guan Wuji's ability to transmit so much data showed his luck. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Of course, if the Holy Emperor Venerable used another Sealing Technique or Divine Tao Skill, the data transmitted would take on a different form, revealing other secrets to Wang Qi.

The scales of victory had long tilted toward Wang Qi. Now, he continued to accumulate advantages little by little, ensuring his success in the eventual decisive battle.

Wang Qi thought about it and temporarily instructed Jarvis to record the data. With a wave of his hand, an invisible pond rippled before him, revealing an illusionary world.

In the illusion, Guan Wuji, transformed into a Blood Armor Berserker, had engaged in battle with the experts of the Emperor's Extreme Split Sky Dao.