"I will go with you."
The Cult Master uttered the words he least wanted to speak.
However, a wise man knows when to yield, and he had no desire to die.
He raised his head and looked at the blood moon in the sky: "What a pity..."
"Still regretting it?" Lin Xiao raised an eyebrow. "You were hoping to absorb the innate Qi under the blood moon, sacrificing a child's life for your youth and ten more years of lifespan? Do you believe I'll send you to reincarnation right now?"
As he spoke, Lin Xiao raised his hand. This old scoundrel showed no sign of repentance.
"So you know."
The Cult Master grinned. "This technique is a top-secret inheritance of the Ning family. It's absolutely impossible to master without understanding the Three Skills and Six Arts. The Three Skills should be easy for you, and the Six Arts might take a little time, but not much... So, you can also comprehend this peerless secret art and claim the innate Qi for yourself!"
"..."
Lin Xiao found the Cult Master's fanaticism somewhat speechless, and deeply disgusted. This man would do any heinous deed for his own sake!
He then gestured to the Ghost Doctor and said, "You tell him what the drawback of this technique is."
"The Ning family completely destroyed this technique thirty years ago," the Ghost Doctor said, looking at the person who, by blood relation, should have been his great-grandfather. "Because this set of techniques has a very significant flaw."
"A flaw? What flaw?"
Hearing this, the Cult Master's brows furrowed immediately. Such an unnatural technique must have a flaw, but he had studied it for so long and found nothing.
"Did you... didn't you feel it? Even after you claimed the child's innate Qi as your own, your cultivation has remained stagnant. Your lifespan increased, your true Qi became more profound, but your realm has always remained motionless. It's not because your talent has reached its limit, but because... this technique is inherently flawed." The Ghost Doctor looked at the Cult Master with a touch of pity. He didn't even know this, only blindly comprehending and practicing according to the technique.
It was too tragic.
Such a person founded the Blissful Cult, no wonder none of the disciples truly joined willingly, all controlled by him through various means.
"Precisely this inherent flaw weakens the cultivator's presence, not just in the eyes of others, but also their presence in the world... In simple terms, from the moment you began cultivating, you were already rejected by all living beings." The Ghost Doctor shook his head. "You are beyond saving."
"Impossible!"
A flicker of terror crossed the Cult Master's face at these words. He had indeed been puzzled why, despite constantly absorbing innate Qi and even claiming it as his own, his cultivation never progressed, nor could he use innate Qi to step into the Divine Realm.
Was it because of this? Had the door to the Divine Realm been shut on him?
Just like those old fossils, their paths to the Divine Realm were all blocked...
Impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
He stared intently at the Ghost Doctor: "Little boy, I have studied more than you."