Chapter 125: Chapter 82: Digesting the Treasure Vault, Demon Form Realm
Secret Martial Arts Vault.
An underground cave of unknown location.
The tones were dark, the air damp with a slight tang of acidity, a side effect of the lack of fresh air.
The gentle flow of an underground river, along with the droplets falling from the tips of stalactites, were the few natural sounds here.
Pang Wuyue walked alongside Li Xuan by the riverbank.
Her red lips parted slightly as she started to narrate the information about the Secret Martial Arts slowly.
"When each of us first encounters a Secret Martial Arts technique, we feel confused, unable to understand why an illustration from a Grandmaster’s Cultivation Technique would reveal another illusory scene.
But as one’s realm improves, I begin to slowly understand.
Perhaps it’s all due to the spirit."
"Spirit..."
"The text and diagrams in a Grandmaster’s Cultivation Technique may frequently need redrawings, replacements, and renovations due to aging or destruction.
However, the fundamental illustration would never need this.
So, this fundamental illustration has already been watched by many predecessors, many martial artists.
Among these, some later became Grandmasters, while others failed.
But regardless of success or failure, the fundamental illustration gathers their joys and sorrows, even desires.
Precisely because of this, these fundamental illustrations are no longer merely parchment and text but have condensed a peculiar spiritual power, thus achieving transformation.
And the demon blood allows us to see the fundamental illustration after its transformation and simultaneously subjects us to mental influence, resulting in personality changes.
Of course... these are just speculations.
The real reason, I’m afraid no one truly knows."
Pang Wuyue, hands clasped behind her back, continued with her long strides, "We’ve long believed the illusion that emerged was the fundamental illustration of the Secret Martial Arts.
We’ve discovered the fundamental illustration has compatibility, and once compatible, it can counteract the previous extreme influences.
And if three fundamental illustrations become compatible, they form the Secret Martial Arts system, which can eliminate extreme personalities entirely.
However, following this, we sense a scene.
A scene... we can fully integrate into.
A scene that is no longer a fundamental illustration.
This scene, we initially called the "heart illustration."
Because, we thought everyone sees a different illustration, entirely decided by themselves; hence the name ’heart illustration.’
But with the increase of Triple Cultivators of Secret Martial Arts, we started to realize... the illustration seen by everyone is actually the same."
Li Xuan said, "Wind Moon Skeleton, Bathing Vajra."
Pang Wuyue replied, "Indeed, all Triple Cultivators of ’Demon-Breaking Saber,’ ’Vajra Body,’ and ’Fire Sun Divine Skill’ see these.
No matter the gender, personality, or age, what we see is the same scene, and what we integrate into is also the same.
No one knows why this is.
But we no longer call it the ’heart illustration,’ but rather... the ’demonic illustration.’
Because it doesn’t arise from the heart; it has always existed there."
"In the demonic illustration, when you first integrate, you cannot find your position. Because your vision fixates on the whole illustration.
Being an outsider to the illustration, how could you be inside it?
Therefore, you need to find a target to integrate into, calmly visualize, slowly immerse, until... you are no longer outside the illustration but within it.
At the moment of integration, the illustration will vanish.
What remains in view is only an outline, a shape.
At this point, you must use your vitality as ink to fill in the outline, until it is completely filled.
However, your vitality is insufficient in quantity and purity, so you need the assistance of Tier One demon flesh.
This process is not smooth, as with the solidification of the outline itself, inexplicable thoughts will emerge, thoughts not belonging to you, but to the characters within the demonic illustration.
This reception of thoughts is not gentle storytelling shared by others to you, but a sudden thrust into your mind, causing headaches, sometimes... even making you question your own identity.
This is far more severe than the fundamental illustrations.
The former merely distorts your personality; the latter... may not distort, but begins to estrange, making you less like yourself.
Hence, to calm the mind, we cultivate small hobbies, usually choosing one from music, chess, calligraphy, and painting to pacify and clarify the mind.
For instance, I love painting, while Yan Beige enjoys tapping on a metal plate to sing loudly.
Then, if you succeed, you have stepped into the realm of the demonic shape....."
Having said this, Pang Wuyue suddenly paused her steps, slightly raised her head, the floral mark between her brows flowed like blood, and without any visible action, Li Xuan saw an inkish aura suddenly permeate her skin, weaving and entangling quickly to form a "human figure outlined in what seemed like ink."
This figure floated above Pang Wuyue’s head, exuding a potent pressure.
From its form, it vaguely appeared to be a woman, her Feather Robe split to reveal long legs; her bosom proud and stretching the silk garment, but her face was a ghastly skull. It was quite similar to the Wind Moon Skeleton seen in the "Wind Moon White Bone Beguilement of Vajra" demonic illustration with Li Xuan.
Li Xuan gazed up, fixated on this ’figure’.
He realized that this was the demonic shape.
Nonetheless, the demonic shape appearing in this manner still filled him with a sense of wonder.
"Junior Brother, do you want to give it a try?"
Pang Wuyue’s voice suddenly grew coy.
She beckoned to Li Xuan with a finger, her gaze filled with allure and danger.
Li Xuan looked at the demonic shape, and a sense of gravity emerged in his heart.
He could feel the power of this demonic shape.
