Xu Qing's face immediately turned dark.
He was the Sect Leader of the Cat Immortal Hall, not the leader of the Sun and Moon Sect; why did the Sutra of Salvation equip him with this whole set of skills?
Xu Qing shook his head slightly, he had no use for this Blood Origin Technique for the time being; all employees of the Cat Immortal Hall and Bao Sheng Temple were his personally selected and trusted confidants, each with integrity and virtue, and did not need to be controlled by evil techniques.
Gathering his thoughts, Xu Qing looked at the last reward—Blaze the Mountains and Boil the Seas.
This method was the last divine technique passed down by the Drought Fiend to the Venerable Fulu before she went into seclusion.
It was also the Drought Fiend's exclusive innate divine technique.
The Venerable Fulu inherited from the Drought Fiend and practiced the lineage of the Fire Corpse, making him well-suited to cultivate this technique.
"Wherever the Drought Fiend treads, the ground turns red for a thousand miles. What kind of might would a fire-attributed divine technique created by the Drought Fiend have when cultivated to the extreme?"
Xu Qing couldn't imagine.
Such divine techniques in the hands of a naturally gifted Drought Fiend or Fire Corpse would definitely wield much greater power than when used by ordinary people!
Xu Qing was eager to try, but upon seeing the corpses on the tomb hill worshipping him as if in a pilgrimage, he forcibly suppressed the idea of testing the power of Blaze the Mountains and Boil the Seas.
With one corpse and two lives, Xu Qing had just finished counting the salvation rewards of the Venerable Fulu when his gaze landed once again on the Sect Master of the Yin Corpse Sect, Qiu Xiansheng.
A celestial person in martial arts, coupled with cultivation to the fourth realm of Decaying, Qiu Xiansheng's corpse was of undeniably high quality.
Similarly, a celestial-grade corpse, although Qiu Xiansheng's rewards were not as superlative as those of the Venerable Fulu, they far exceeded the ordinary.
Weapon Manipulation Technique, celestial grade lower rank.
"Mind controls the divine weapon, intimidating all things, like the descent of the Weapon Master, it can make ordinary iron become spiritual, manipulating all objects as weapons..."
Xu Qing pondered the weapon manipulation technique in front of him. This technique was taught by the Venerable Fulu, learned from the Drought Fiend, and was a weapon manipulation method realized during a battle between the Drought Fiend and the Weapon Master.
This method had already surpassed the art of sword control, reaching the level of using all things as weapons.
With his mind stirring, Xu Qing performed a spell and chanted, sending his intent across the entire tomb hill.
The next moment, all weapons return to the sect!
All weapons left by the disciples of the Yin Corpse Sect trembled and floated up, shooting towards the direction of the 'Weapon Master.' Upon nearing, they hovered in mid-air, awaiting command.
When Xu Qing relaxed his mind, all the weapons fell to the ground.
Besides the Weapon Manipulation Technique, Xu Qing also obtained a Call the Wind and Summon the Rain divine technique at Qiu Xiansheng's site.
This divine technique was somewhat related to Qiu Xiansheng's worldly quest for immortality; in his early years, Qiu Xiansheng was tested by Zhuang Tongsheng but failed and was expelled from the sect, which became his heart demon.
After beginning his cultivation journey, Qiu Xiansheng did not practice other techniques or divine abilities; instead, he channeled all his effort into controlling weather.
A disciple taught by a Drought Fiend, not becoming a scourge with Blaze the Mountains and Boil the Seas, but learning the Daoist's weather control at Jade Pool Mountain.
Calling it inattentiveness is mild; to stray from one's path yet not deviate entirely is more accurate!
For this reason, the Venerable Fulu grew increasingly disgusted with Qiu Xiansheng.
Yet Qiu Xiansheng continually brushed it off, citing his suitability for water techniques, and continued to stubbornly pursue weather control.
But was Qiu Xiansheng really refraining from the fire techniques solely because he was adept at water techniques?
In fact, no one understood better than Qiu Xiansheng himself that he acted this way just to 'defile himself.'
The purpose was to make the Venerable Fulu, who favored fire techniques, develop a dislike for him, thereby extinguishing or delaying the idea of body possession.
What Qiu Xiansheng didn't know, however, was that the main reason the Venerable Fulu did not possess his body wasn't just because of his nonconformity but mainly because of his cultivation in the fourth realm, repaying life with life.
After cultivating in the third realm of Punishing Soul, he could borrow life from heaven for three hundred years, but the fourth Decaying realm required one to repay five hundred years to heaven...
Because of taking great medicine, Qiu Xiansheng survived the fourth realm, but his body grew old and frail.
The Venerable Fulu preferred youthful and robust bodies, and how could she fancy an old, withered man like Qiu Xiansheng?
Concentrating his thoughts, Xu Qing realized that so-called weather control was actually about using one's own magical power as a guide, mobilizing the qi of water and metal, concentrating mind and spirit with the heavens and earth, and with minor effort borrowing the power of heaven and earth to gather moisture and summon wind, rain, and thunder.
Simply put, it involved five steps:
Transform mind into spirit, chant the metal and water spell, attract qi and gather clouds, control rain with divine thoughts, and return to origin and conclude the work.
Xu Qing, possessing Five Elements, with a physical constitution belonging to the essence of metal, did not lack water-based magical power due to the Black Corpse Transformation. The only thing he lacked was a method of handling the power of thunder after celestial changes.
It's important to know that thunder originates from the clash of yin and yang energies, with yin energy encompassing yang, and yang breaking yin, erupting as thunder.
Such thunder governs the fate of heaven, balances objects, oversees life and death...
And since Xu Qing was a zombie, embodying extreme yin, if he performed the Weather Control divine technique, lightning would invariably follow the yin and strike him!
This was why beings of yin nature throughout the land were reluctant to learn such methods.
But upon understanding the principles of weather control, Xu Qing found amusement.
He, a perfect Undying Bone zombie, might have some reverence for the heavenly punishment of divine thunder, but what did ordinary yin and yang thunder matter?
Let them strike—it could just loosen his tendons and muscles, a free electric therapy session, as once the rain falls, it can't be taken back.
Laughing and clapping his hands, Xu Qing mused that with this Weather Control technique, he could use the name of the hall's temple to ensure favorable weather for the Jin Sect.
Moreover, in the funeral industry, there are omens about "rain hitting the coffin, ten years of hardship; rain sprinkling the tomb, an appearance of nobility."
With this minor divine technique, he could set up rain invocation packages, ensuring that guests' new graves would receive heavenly dew.