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Chapter 2.12 of 2014: The Art of Skin Painting

"My technique can be summed up in one sentence: [Painted Skin Four Phases, Profound Skill Nine Levels]."

"The Judge's Pen Technique: Nine Styles of Fate Manipulation": Based on one's own skill, one condenses the "Yin-Yang Judge's Pen" to depict and alter the trajectory of a living being's fate.

First move: "Soul-Bewitching Brush". The brushstrokes are soul-bewitching, shaking the mind and spirit.

The second technique: "The Longevity-Cut Brush". Wherever the brush tip passes, it cuts away a person's lifespan.

The third technique: "The Fate-Changing Brush". Rewrite your destiny and be plagued by misfortune.

The fourth technique: "Peach Blossom Curse Pen". It enlightens those entangled in illicit romantic relationships, disrupting their minds.

The fifth technique: "The Book of Life and Death". It reflects the flaws in the opponent's fate, and every stroke of the pen will cause harm.

The sixth technique: "The Reincarnation Brush". With one stroke, it severs the cause and effect of past lives.

The seventh technique: "The Fate-Tampering Pen". Forcibly alters the opponent's fate, making them noble or lowly at will.

Eighth move: "Yin-Yang Reversal Brush". Reverses the Yin-Yang attribute of the target, temporarily reviving ghosts and making the living appear like ghosts.

Ninth Form: "The Dharma King Holds the Pen". The ultimate mystery: defining the area and establishing the Yin-Yang law.

"The Secret Art of Painted Skin: Nine Layers of Masks": Extract the life force, cultivation, and memories of others, and use them for one's own purposes to create countless "painted skins".

First technique: "Disguise Skin". Change appearance and voice.

Second move: "Stealing Skill". Briefly steals the opponent's moves.

The third technique: "Memory Stealing". Accessing surface-level memories.

The fourth technique: "Bone and Skin Transformation". Completely mimics the target's shape and appearance.

Fifth move: "Soul-Devouring Skin". Devouring remnant souls to replenish oneself.

The sixth technique: "The Cloak of Fate". Donning someone else's fate to deceive others.

The seventh technique: "Painted Skin Clone". Creates a clone with 30% of the original's strength using a painted skin.

The eighth technique: "A Thousand Faces Return to One". Simultaneously wearing multiple disguises, gathering thousands of cultivations into one body.

Ninth Style: "Formless Mask". The ultimate mask, formless and shapeless, capable of transforming into all things in heaven and earth.

"The Divine Power of the Yellow Springs: The Nine Netherworld Technique": It draws upon the power of the Yellow Springs River of Oblivion to control ghosts and spirits, and manipulate the boundary between life and death.

First move: "Soul-Guiding Incantation". Summons wandering souls and ghosts.

The second technique: "Water of Oblivion". It freezes the water into ice, freezing the soul.

The third move: "Gate of Hell". Briefly opens the passage to the underworld to devour living beings.

The fourth move: "Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts". This involves commanding a horde of ghosts to form a battle formation and kill the enemy.

The fifth technique: "Meng Po Soup". It turns water into mist, erasing short-term memories.

The sixth move: "The Stone of Three Lives". Reflects the opponent's weaknesses across three lifetimes.

The seventh technique: "Eighteen Hells". It conjures up scenes of hell to torment the soul.

The eighth technique: "Six Paths of Reincarnation". Forcibly relegating living beings to the animal realm.

Ninth Form: "Netherworld Ghost Realm". The body transforms into the Netherworld, creating a ghost realm of its own.

The Nine-Syllable Mantra of the Dharma King: A mantra that severs the root of Yin and Yang, the words become law, and it reverses the order of Heaven and Earth.

First move: "Forbidden" spell. Imprisoning movement.

The second technique: "The 'Seize' Mantra". It seizes the five senses.

The third move: "The 'Disorder' Mantra." Disrupts the balance of Yin and Yang.

The fourth technique: "The 'Cut' Mantra". Cut off the cycle of reincarnation.

Fifth Technique: "The 'False' Mantra". To fabricate reality. Sixth Technique: "The 'Steal' Mantra". To steal heavenly secrets.

The seventh move: "The 'Substitute' Mantra". Substituting one thing for another.

The eighth technique: "The 'Reverse' Mantra." Defying fate and changing destiny.

The Ninth Form: "The Mantra of the Character 'King'". The ultimate mantra, spoken with divine authority, proclaiming oneself the Dharma King.

Its core essence lies in the four aspects of the painted skin.

The Judge wields his pen: determining life and death, altering one's destiny; the Thousand-Faced Painter: stripping away one's identity, seizing one's cultivation; the Lord of the Underworld: commanding ghosts and communicating with the netherworld, controlling the boundary between life and death; the Dharma King's True Words: words become law, reversing yin and yang.

When this method is cultivated to its highest level, one can transcend reincarnation and the cycle of heaven and earth, becoming a Yin-Yang Dharma King in one's own domain. However, it is ultimately not the true path. Practitioners often become lost among countless disguises, forgetting their true nature and eternally trapped in the Yin-Yang prison they themselves have woven.

Just like the old monk with the bald pen before my eyes.

"Where is the Yin-Yang Judgment Pen?" Bai Jingjing asked with a smile.

"The judgment brush is here." The old monk with the bald brush moved its sleeves without wind. The demonic brush that had previously hung high above the flower pavilion flew out from the left sleeve. The old monk used his own bald brush, which became darker and darker with each stroke, and it flew out from the right sleeve.

"May I ask, Master, what were the Yin-Yang Twin Brushes forged from?"

“‘Male demons are castrated, female demons are made up.’” The old monk with the bald brush chuckled, “Why does the female benefactor ask such a question?”

"I see." Bai Jingjing remained unmoved: "Castration and refining, turning painted skin into a brush."

It's no wonder that in the world of mural painting, there are neither men nor women, neither humans nor demons, neither gods nor immortals, neither Taoists nor Buddhists.

"Keep the person, but not the pen; keep the pen, but not the person." Bai Jingjing said it all: "Master, take this."

"Lady, be careful." The entire spectacle of the brothel's competition was witnessed by the old monk with his bald brush. As the saying goes, "the onlooker sees most of the game." Rather than following the prescribed steps and rehearsing moves, the swift way to defeat the enemy is to unleash a decisive, deadly strike.

You're absolutely right (wait, that sounds familiar, sir!).

So, just as the words "Be careful" were about to be uttered, the old monk with the bald pen exerted all his power and used the ninth move of the "Judge's Pen Technique: Nine Styles of Fate-Tampering," "The Dharma King's Pen": the ultimate mystery, delineating the area and establishing the laws of Yin and Yang.

Bai Jingjing opened her mouth and said, "'Calming Glue'."

"Hmm?" The bald-headed old monk, who was about to write, paused, startled by the words. In a flash, he recalled what had happened. This move wasn't among the four elements and nine levels of the "Three Lights, Three Realms" "Great Light Drinking Technique"!

Before he could think further, he suddenly felt something strange in his left hand. Looking closely, he saw that the body of the Yin Judge's Pen, which had transformed into a demonic pen and hung high above the flower pavilion, was oozing out seven-colored gel!

"It comes from the 'Divine Treatise of the Medicine King'." Bai Jingjing revealed the most important plot foreshadowing: "It was placed beforehand by Cheng Lingsu, the sect leader of the Medicine King Sect."

It turns out that the sacred poison pre-set by Cheng Lingsu, the sect leader of the Medicine King Sect, is called "Seven Hearts Stabilizing Glue." It is recorded in Chapter Nine of "Medicine King's Divine Scripture: Secret Scroll of Poison Techniques: Nine Abyss": using the power of the Seven Hearts Begonia's origin to refine a gelatinous substance. This poison does not harm the body or corrode bones; it specifically "stabilizes" the primordial spirit.

A beam of seven-colored light shot out from the withered wooden hairpin, binding the opponent like gel. The person struck was instantly and completely "frozen," like an insect trapped in amber, their life and death entirely in my hands. This is the treasure of the scroll.

"Seven colors...a rainbow!" How could the old monk with the bald brush not realize it? However, during their duel, strange phenomena occurred frequently. The wind rose and the clouds surged, lightning flashed and thunder roared. Everyone's attention was firmly drawn to the two in the arena, so how could they care about a ray of rainbow light that had pierced through the roof and quietly struck the demonic brush?

Thinking about it now, perhaps... it was during the time when the demonic brush hanging high on the top of the big flower building suddenly appeared out of thin air, flew into a pot of bubbling soup, and completely dismantled the "scorpion demon" into the "Beauty Portrait" in the "Book of Life and Death" and released all her physical appearances before she disappeared after reshaping her body that Cheng Lingsu, the leader of the Medicine King Sect, secretly poisoned her!

You despicable poisoner, you are truly despicable!

The Bai Jingjing in front of me is even more despicable!

He deliberately revealed the secrets of his divine skill, all to cover for the despicable poisoner! This ensured the old monk with the bald brush was completely focused on this final showdown, daring not to be distracted in the slightest. And so—

Even gods and ghosts cannot save him.

With the primordial spirit fixed, divine skills are difficult to unleash.

Bai Jingjing unleashed the eighth move of the "Curse of Time," the "Sealing Curse," which uses incantations to construct a time-space prison.

"No—" The old monk with the bald pen collapsed along with the space-time he was in. His body (please note) was completely devoured by the space-time rift, leaving no trace of his remains.

Only the primordial spirit, firmly bound by the "Seven Hearts Stabilizing Glue," remained, like an insect trapped in amber. It was still screaming and struggling desperately.

However, all of this was in vain.

Visibly, the slowly flowing "Seven Hearts Calming Glue" completely submerged the old monk's primordial spirit, and then solidified into a "Seven Hearts Amber" the size of a longan.