"Learning from mistakes."
The Saint Consort was naive and fearless in her early years, which led to her being suppressed for a thousand years.
Now, encountering Xu Qing, whose methods are elusive and difficult to discern, sometimes righteous and sometimes evil, the unease in her heart grew stronger.
Wary of causing more trouble, the Saint Consort repeatedly probed into Xu Qing's origins, yet found no clues.
White Cloud Cave had existed for a thousand years, yet the changes in the outside world had left this relic unable to see clearly.
In an era supposedly unfathomable for a millennium, a world where the Dao wanes while demonism rises, how could such an indefinable entity have emerged?
A blend of saint and demon aura, an appearance that defies gender classification, and divine techniques that are both righteous and evil; any one of these traits would make an experienced cultivator frown, but he possessed them all.
The Yin Country was completely severed from outside contact, with the Saint Consort situated in the Ghost Realm, facing tens of thousands of Yin Soldiers forming a Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams formation around her.
Those Fierce Generals were initially insignificant to her, but with the Mountain and River Cauldron's blessing, all the Fierce Generals seemed to have transformed. A black and white dragon's shadow was spiraling in the domain of the Yin Country.
The Saint Consort struggled, wielding the seventy-two variations of secret arts continuously.
Transformation, Escape, Nightmare Prayer, Phantom Body, Death Curse, Soul Departure...
However, the Fierce Generals' formation now acted as one. Each time the Saint Consort's divine techniques struck them, an invisible force would vibrate out, dispersing across the entire formation.
The black and white dragon manifested above occasionally spiraled and howled, causing mental agitation.
The Saint Consort once again summoned the Ghost Head Divine Saber, this time exerting all her strength. The divine saber, across the Yin Soldier formation, emitted a bright blood light, directly targeting Xu Qing, who sat in power over the Yin Country.
Three parts imperial fortune, a nation's dragon aura.
Xu Qing's expression was stern, with a sweep of his hand, the Mountain and River Cauldron, driven by the imperial fortune of the Yin Heavenly Son, transformed into a great seal, suppressing the Ghost Head Divine Saber below.
Tens of thousands of ghostly shadows wailed and howled, and the top black and white dragon took the opportunity to open its maw, beginning to devour the blood-fiendish ghost shadows left scattered.
The Saint Consort was shocked; if the fortune dragon continued to devour like this, with the growth and decline of fortune, her divine saber might indeed be suppressed by the Mountain and River Cauldron on the spot!
The Saint Consort could no longer think of taking Xu Qing's life. She quickly retracted her sword fingers, chanting a battlekill spell, and the Ghost Head Divine Saber, infused with the millennial cultivation of the Heavenly Fox, exploded with a blood-red blade light unprecedented, forcibly bouncing back the Mountain and River Seal, returning in front of the Heavenly Fox.
Seeing the waning aura of the Fierce General formation, Xu Qing decisively summoned the Mountain and River Seal to the black and white dragon's location.
The next moment, the black and white dragon spiraled around the Mountain and River Cauldron, finally let out a howl, transforming into two black and white dragons, adopting the stance of twin dragons holding a seal, branded onto the Mountain and River Cauldron!
"Suppress!"
Xu Qing soared into the sky, commandeering the White Cloud Mountain's mountain deity authority into the Mountain and River Cauldron.
Now, the Mountain and River Cauldron was the entire White Cloud Mountain, and Xu Qing was the emperor of this region.
The Saint Consort finally felt fear, her voice trembling: "Yin Heavenly Son's Fortune, you..."
The Three Realms and Six Paths, apart from the Celestial Emperor and the mortal emperor, only the Yin Heavenly Son remained.
Seeing Xu Qing, as the sacred apparition of the Lady Bao Sheng, possessing the fortune of the ghost world heavenly son, she momentarily could not distinguish the boundary between ghosts and gods.
Could such blatant boundary violators really go unchecked?
The Heaven-Reaching Road was severed...
The Saint Consort fell silent, originally just grateful that the Three Realms were disconnected so she could do as she pleased here, but she forgot one thing.
With the Heaven-Reaching Road severed, the Heavenly Laws couldn't control her, nor could they control others!
If the Heavenly Laws still existed, even if she acted recklessly, at most she would be suppressed again according to the heavenly laws, but wouldn't be sent to the Demon-slaying Platform.
This had to do with the Nine Heavens Secret Scripture, a book originally left by the Primordial Patriarch, who left a celestial scripture and four verses, stating:
"The Jade Coffer opens, when fate comes; the Jade Coffer closes, when fate goes."
The Celestial Scripture was stolen by Lord Yuan from the Jade Coffer and transcribed into the White Cloud Cave, equivalent to opening the Jade Coffer's lid. And as long as the Celestial Scripture remained in the White Cloud Cave, the Jade Coffer would not close.
Thus, there's an unwritten rule in the Upper Realm, that anyone cultivating the Celestial Scripture would be considered possessing a death exemption medal; even committing great wrongs, the Celestial Emperor might, in respect of the Patriarch, show leniency.
The Saint Consort felt tight-scalped, trapped by the Yin Country's Ghost Realm, with the Mountain and River Cauldron having fortified the surrounding fifty miles like an iron barrel.
Attempting again to escape Xu Qing's Tian Gang divine techniques using 'Scene Shift', 'Void Step', or 'Pot Heaven' techniques, it was impossible.
The old vixen, looking at the young man determined to extinguish her with all his might, held a thread of hope in her heart:
"You broke through the realm during battle, used so many divine techniques, how can your remaining magical power possibly exhibit Tian Gang again..."
However, before the Saint Consort's words were finished, she saw Xu Qing's aura reverse, the corpse monster initially using Black Corpse magical power suddenly shifted into the Fur Corpse state.
Fur Corpse was the master of the mountains and forests, and Yunmeng Mountain was precisely the domain of the Fur Corpse.
Xu Qing grinned, willing to spend the thousands of fierce generals accumulated over years of transcending corpses, all to probe the old vixen's bottom line.
Now the aura of these fierce generals was halved, who knows how many years it would take to restore, but that was unimportant.
Within the Nine Heavens Secret Scripture, Tian Gang techniques and Di Sha techniques were entirely incomparable. The former was grand divine techniques of creation and cosmic shifts, while Di Sha techniques were all 'Vajra Zen Heresy', though still miraculous, they had no demand on one's disposition, with an upper limit only being external, not truly transcendent techniques.