A month later, in the imperial study.
Hong Zhan sat at the desk and read a document in his hand.
An official stood in front of him, looking respectful: "Your Majesty, they are finally willing to speak, this is the confession recorded today, similar to the situation explained by Niu Weizong in the past, but in more detail."
"Well done." Hong Zhan looked at the confession in his hand and nodded in satisfaction.
"We focused on inquiring about the elixirs, magic weapons and other information they brought, and we will continue to interrogate them." The official said.
"Let's talk about the situation of the 'Blood Soul Banner'." Hong Zhan said.
"Yes! This treasure has extremely strong cursed power, can be challenged by leapfrogging, it is their strongest treasure, but the curse power is a one-time consumable, and it needs to be replenished when it is used up, and the way to replenish it is to sacrifice the child alive, so every ten years, they will come to our continent once a year and use 20,000 young children to sacrifice this treasure." The official said.
"Only living sacrifices can replenish the power of curses? Can't you use other animals?" Hong Zhan asked.
"No, they tried all kinds of animals, plants, and trees, but they didn't work, only young children." The official said.
"What a weird blood soul banner." Hong Zhan frowned.
"Your Majesty, how should we deal with the 30,000 young children we collected earlier?" The official's expression was a little worried.
Hong Zhan glanced at him angrily and said, "You have been with me for so many years, do you think I will learn from those demons and use young children to sacrifice for a magic weapon?"
"I dare not." The official blushed with shame, lowered his head, and exhaled softly.
"All 30,000 children borrowed from the private sector will be returned to their parents, and secondly, they have the right to enter official schools in each city without examination." Hong Zhan said.
"Yes!" The official immediately laughed.
"Although our continent has thin spiritual energy, it also has spiritual energy, and in a few days, all official schools will fully teach primary immortal cultivation techniques. The young children were frightened this time, let them be the first beneficiaries." Hong Zhan added.
"Yes!" The official said respectfully.
"Go!" Hong Zhan said.
"I take my leave." The official bowed respectfully and exited the imperial study.
When Hong Zhan was the only one left in the imperial study, he took out a somewhat damaged small bag from his arms, which was Lone Star's storage bag.
From the storage bag, he took out a piece of black cloth, which had a large number of blood-red runes on it, and even emitted a faint red halo, which was the Blood Soul Banner.
"Can you leapfrog the challenge?" Hong Zhan's eyes were hot.
Although this sentence is simple, it reveals extremely important information, this is not a magic weapon, this is a plug-in.
He was determined to become an immortal and live forever, and the Blood Soul Banner seemed to allow him to gain countless opportunities unexpectedly in the future. However, as a modern person, he still has a bottom line, sacrificing 20,000 young children alive? He couldn't do this.
Maybe something happens in the future that may change his mind, but at this moment, he wants to maintain his original intention. Especially when it was not difficult for him to sacrifice 20,000 young children alive, this temptation made him extremely vigilant.
He stared at the Blood Soul Banner, a wave of vigilance and malice flashing in his eyes.
Suddenly, a large amount of red light appeared from the Blood Soul Banner, and with a whoosh, it flew towards Hong Zhan.
"What?" Hong Zhan's face changed.
He quickly pulled out Lone Star Child's long sword and slashed at the flying blood soul banner.
With a bang, the sword and the flag collided, blooming with a large amount of red light, and the blood-colored runes on the blood soul banner seemed to come to life.
It's a pity that the Blood Soul Banner has exhausted its curse power, and no one has urged it, so it doesn't have much power, and it was finally blocked by Hong Zhan.
"Do treasures have spirits? I just had a little evil thought about it, and it would actually take the initiative?" Hong Zhan was surprised.
He suddenly applied force, and with a bang, the long sword cut through a large number of runes and pierced the blood soul banner suddenly.
At this time, the blood-colored runes on the Blood Soul Banner seemed to turn into smoke and quickly collapsed away, and the Blood Soul Banner also seemed to lose its strength and slowly softened.
"Your Majesty, do you have any instructions?" There were guards outside the imperial study who heard the movement and wanted to come in to escort the carriage.
"No need to come in, I'm fine." Hong Zhan said.
"Yes!" The guards outside the room then became quiet again.
With a whoosh, the blood soul banner fell to the ground, but all the blood-colored runes on it disappeared and turned into an ordinary black banner, as if it had lost its spirituality.
Hong Zhan stared at the damaged black flag, his expression a little regretful, and a little happy.
Suddenly, he seemed to have discovered something, and immediately picked up the black flag, but saw that there was a mezzanine in the part that had just been pierced by a sword, and he could see that the black flag actually had two layers of flag cloth, and in that gap, he could see that there were actually some words written inside.
"Words?" Hong Zhan was surprised.
He used his long sword to cut open the black flag, revealing the inside, and sure enough, there were countless blood-red small characters densely written inside, and he immediately read it.
"This is an exercise, the "Sin Karma Heavenly Dao Sutra"?" Hong Zhan was surprised.
He never thought that the bloody adventures he had seen in novels before would happen to him one day?
Next to this exercise, there are some introductory texts, as you can see on them:
"The heavenly way collapsed, I found a wonder in its ruins, and the remnants of the heavenly path condensed this exercise "Sin Karma Heavenly Dao Sutra", I guess that the heavenly way is unwilling to perish, and the dying inheritance is the creation of the heavens. I quietly practiced, this exercise uses my own soul as the seed of the heavenly way, refining the sinful karma, achieving the invincible divine soul, and recasting the heavenly way. Refined to the extreme, I am the way of heaven, the way of sin karma.
However, I was too public, the news leaked, and before it was refined to Dacheng, it attracted the one who collapsed the heavenly way, and the causal battle was inevitable, so this flag was specially made to hide this skill. If this battle is lost, this exercise will be left to the destined person.
If I am unlucky, I suggest that those who are destined to practice the way of the emperor are deeply sinful, and if they use the luck of the country to supplement it with all their might, one day's cultivation can be better than that of ordinary people for a year."
Looking at this text, Hong Zhan's eyelids jumped wildly, he guessed that this technique was extraordinary, but it was too exaggerated, cultivated to the end, and refined himself into the way of heaven?
Although he knew nothing about sin karma and luck, he could feel that the "Sin Karma Heavenly Dao Sutra" must be an extremely rare exercise.
After pondering for a moment, he decided to try his hand at cultivation, he explained to the guards, and then went into retreat.
The "Sin Karma Heavenly Dao Sutra" does not cultivate the body, but focuses on the soul, and at first it is necessary to condense the power of the soul, soul power.
He practiced cross-legged and began to practice according to the exercises, his mind gathered in the center of his eyebrows, visualizing, chanting, and breathing. This practice is one day.
A day later, he seemed to "see" that there was an acupuncture point space in the center of his eyebrows, and the inside was gray and chaotic.
With a buzz, a wisp of scarlet mist condensed out in the space between the eyebrows, and it was a wisp of soul power born.
"Done? Sinful karma soul power?" Hong Zhan said in surprise.
He didn't know how long it would take others to cultivate the first wisp of soul power, but he cultivated extremely quickly, and he completed it in just one day.
"The emperor has deep sins and is the luck of the country?" Hong Zhan showed curiosity.
According to the description in the exercise, he integrated a wisp of soul power he had just refined into his eyes, and with a buzz, his eyes glowed with a hint of red light.
In an instant, he saw red flames burning on his body.
"Fire?"
His face changed, and he hurriedly slapped his body around, only to find that the flame could not be touched at all.
"No. These flames should be my sinful karma? Am I refining this kind of sin karma into soul power?" Hong Zhan's expression moved slightly.
The next moment, he saw a faint golden mist surrounding his body.
"What is this?" Hong Zhan said curiously.
He immediately walked out of the imperial study and looked at the outside world, only to see that there was a large lake of golden mist over the palace, flattening the sky over the palace, and it was connected to his body, which looked extremely spectacular.
"This is the national fortune of my Daqing Dynasty, the luck of the country?" Hong Zhan's expression moved, and he guessed it.
He silently operated the "Sin Karma Heaven Dao Sutra", and sure enough, the great lake churned, and the rolling qi luck quickly poured into his body, and at the same time, the sin karma on his body was also disappearing, as if it was constantly being refined into new soul power.
With a buzz, a wisp of soul power in his eyes was exhausted, and he regained his normal vision, unable to see the luck like a great lake, nor could he see the sin karma like a flame. But he already knows everything.
"What a "Sin Karma Heavenly Dao Sutra", as long as it is fully assisted by luck, a day's cultivation can be better than that of ordinary people for a year?" Hong Zhan was overjoyed.
Although he had just cultivated his soul power, he had already recognized this technique.
He retreated again, and a few days later, he memorized the "Heavenly Dao Sutra of Sin Karma", and he used it for a few more days, repeatedly memorizing this technique in various ways, until he was sure that he would not forget every word on it, and then he exhaled softly.
He took the brazier, burned the black flag that recorded the "Heavenly Dao Sutra of Sin Karma" into ashes, and sprinkled the ashes into the soil in the garden, and only then did he feel relieved.
The "Heavenly Dao Sutra of Sin Karma" is too important and must not be leaked, it is enough to record it in his mind, and he does not need any other carriers.
In the days that followed, in addition to constantly taking pills to accelerate the improvement of his physical cultivation, he was practicing the "Sin Karma Heaven Dao Sutra" with all his might, and the soul power in his eyebrows was increasing one by one. At the same time, he also looked through the confessions of immortal cultivators every day.
Lone Xingzi and the others seemed to have gradually given up their resistance and kept describing some details of the immortal cultivation, but looking at these confessions, Hong Zhan felt something was wrong, because there was no description of "soul power" in the confession.
Niu Weizong is just the lowest level of immortal cultivator, he doesn't know soul power, Lone Xingzi is not the lowest level of immortal cultivator, he hasn't heard of it? Or, are they deliberately concealing the information of soul power?
After thinking for a while, Hong Zhan was more inclined to the latter, his face was gloomy, and he said to himself: "If I hadn't gotten the "Sin Karma Heavenly Dao Sutra", I would have really been hidden by you, is this preparing to wait for an opportunity? I really don't know if I am alive or dead."