Evil Master and Disciple

Dugu Chan knew Ye Feng's character. He couldn't really twist his arms or break his legs, let alone cut off his eloquent tongue.

The old man rolled his eyes and said, "What's wrong with you, kid? The three months the Sect Master punished you with to guard the Bamboo Forest Ancestral Land have already passed. Why are you still running here all day? This is a key area of ​​the Yunhai Sect. Do you think this is your backyard?"

Ye Feng chuckled and said, "Grandpa, I came here today for serious matters."

"You're serious and you're bringing a girl with you? I'm saying you have a lot of luck with women. The girl you bring with you is different every time. You're really lucky. Be careful that your luck with women turns into misfortune."

Ye Feng's face turned bitter, and he said, "Grandfather, can you please stop joking? I really have something very, very, very serious to say this time!"

"Oh, I'm curious, what serious things can a frivolous person like you do?"

Ye Feng took out the stone tablet from the black silk bracelet and stood it in front of the ancestor.

Dugu Chan, who was originally a little careless, changed his expression after seeing the stone tablet and slowly stood up.

I came to the stone tablet and carefully looked at the text and map engraved on both sides of the tablet.

Then he looked at Ye Feng, who looked like a lackey.

"Your stuff...where did you get it from?"

Ye Feng shook his head and said, "I don't know either."

"You brought it here, how could you not know?"

Ye Feng said: "Grandfather, this is a long story, I will make it short..."

So Ye Feng simply told his ancestor the cause and effect of the matter.

This included secretly asking Miss Xiaoman to copy the map on the stone tablet onto sheepskin, secretly handing the map to Fu Jinghong, and what happened at the Elephant Tomb today.

After listening to this, Dugu Chan frowned slightly.

When he saw the stone tablet, he realized that he had underestimated the situation.

Especially what Ye Feng experienced before being buried in the mass grave of Luoxia Peak was much more bizarre than he had imagined.

Regarding the story about Ye Feng, the main source of information for both Dugu Chan and Master Yulong was Xu Kai's confession that night.

It now appears that Xu Kai's confession that night was not true, or not the whole story.

This kid must be hiding something.

What Ye Feng did half a year ago might not be as simple as using a formation eye map to blackmail Lin Yi.

Ye Feng finished his story for a long time, and saw Dugu Chan squinting his eyes and staring at the stone tablet without saying a word.

He then said softly, "Ancestor, do you recognize this stone tablet?"

Dugu Chan nodded slowly and said, "This is a spiritual tablet."

"A spirit tablet? Yes, in the woods, those three black-clad assassins seemed to have also said this thing was a spirit tablet. Forefather, what exactly is a spirit tablet?"

Dugu Chan said, "There are eight spiritual tablets in total. The map on the spiritual tablet shows the direction of the underground spiritual veins of the 3,000-li Tianyun Mountain Range and the connection points between the spiritual veins and the surface. The text on this side is a very profound ancient cultivation book.

According to the records of Yunhai Sect and various legends of Tianyun Mountain.

The spiritual stele was discovered by a casual cultivator in the Tianyun Mountains in a ruined cave of an ancient immortal. At that time, the spiritual vein map and cultivation techniques were engraved on a stone wall.

The casual cultivator knew the importance of spiritual veins to those who practiced Taoism. He wanted to destroy the spiritual vein map, but he was worried that future generations would not be able to accurately grasp the direction of the underground spiritual veins in Tianyun Mountain.

So, the senior cultivator divided the cultivation method and the spiritual vein map into eight parts and engraved them on eight stone tablets respectively.

At that time, there were many sects and independent cultivators in the 3,000-mile Tianyun Mountain, and our Yunhai Sect was just one of them.

Before the wandering cultivator passed away, he handed over the eight stone tablets to eight sects respectively.

They are Yunhai Sect, Danxia Sect, Xuanjian Sect, Fuyun Pavilion, Haotian Sect, Yunyin Sect, Xinghejian Sect, and Vajra Zen Temple.

At first, these sects kept this secret.

Until the Immortal Hunting War 2,400 years ago, countless masters and independent cultivators from all factions of good and evil in the world died in the battle at Lingshan, and the forces of cultivation in the world were reshuffled.

Each faction was integrating and expanding. During the centuries-long reshuffle, the secret of the eight spiritual tablets began to spread in Tianyun Mountain.

Of the eight major immortal cultivation sects in Tianyun Mountain back then, except for our Yunhai Sect, the Danxia Sect in the east of Tianyun Mountain and the Yunyin Sect in the south still exist. These two sects should still have the spiritual tablets in their hands.

The spirit tablets of the three sects, Xuanjian Sect, Haotian Sect, and Fuyun Pavilion, had already fallen into the hands of our Yunhai Sect before the sects collapsed. We now have four spirit tablets in our Yunhai Sect.

In the battle to hunt immortals, almost all the elders of the Xinghe Sword Sect, including the sect leader, were killed in the battle, and the sect disappeared long ago. The spiritual tablet they kept was the first to appear, and then disappeared mysteriously, and its whereabouts are still unknown.

When the Lingbei incident broke out, it was just after the Hunting Immortal War that Buddhism began to expand its influence. Among them, the Tianyun Mountain system, which had suffered heavy losses in the battle in Lingshan, was the focus of Buddhism's encroachment and invasion.

The stele from the Vajra Zen Temple is said to have flowed out of the Tianyun Mountains and into the hands of the Lingtai Temple, a leading Buddhist sect. However, this is only a rumor, and its authenticity cannot be confirmed.

Ye Feng and Shen Tianqi listened silently on the side.

If the ancestor had not told them, these two younger generations would probably never know this secret until they died.

When Shen Tianqi heard that the densely packed text on the stone tablet was actually a fragment of an ancient secret method of cultivation, he couldn't help but take a few more glances at it.

The serial number of this spiritual tablet is not the first one, and the cultivation manual recorded on it is only a part of the secret method. It is inconsistent and looks very stiff.

However, it can be seen that this practice method is neither a Taoist method nor a Buddhist method, but rather a bit like the very powerful witchcraft in ancient times.

Most of them are based on the art of cultivating the soul, essence and blood, which is closer to the ghost cultivation of the demon cult. In the eyes of the righteous, this is the magic skill practiced by the evil sects.

Shen Tianqi only took a few glances and then looked away.

As a disciple of the righteous path, she was proficient in both Taoist and Buddhist skills, so she naturally disdained such witchcraft.

She also knew that she could practice Buddhist techniques openly, but she absolutely could not practice witchcraft or ghost arts.

The next moment, Shen Tianqi's veil shook.

There seemed to be some surprise in his eyes.

Ye Feng took out a pen and paper, lay on the stone tablet, and actually copied the cultivation manual on it.

"The mind is as calm as water, and the soul returns to its origin. Close your eyes and concentrate, looking inward at your Dantian. The spirit disperses and gathers, the soul condenses and becomes strong. Perceive the darkness, penetrate the netherworld. The soul flies away and turns to ashes. I control the netherworld, and the ghost fire lives forever... This technique is so strange. Why does it involve ghosts, souls, and the netherworld... It doesn't look decent at all..."

Ye Feng muttered softly while transcribing.

But he didn't take it seriously.

After all, the chapter on soul refinement that his ancestors taught him was also mainly based on the soul, similar to the technique of ghost cultivation.

Since this fragment of the mental method was passed down from ancient times, it must be a great treasure. Although this stone tablet only records one eighth of the cultivation manual, it should be able to help improve my cultivation to a certain extent.

Ye Feng is like a ragpicker. As long as it is a martial art or supernatural power, no matter how useless it is, he will learn it!

Looking at Ye Feng copying the words on the spirit tablet, Dugu Chan had no intention of stopping him.

At his level, he has seen through the cycle of life and death, so how could he not see through the mere distinction between good and evil?

He just took a quick look at the cultivation formula recorded on the spiritual tablet. Although it was only a fragment, it was very profound.

However, the Hundred Refinements of the Soul that he taught to Ye Feng was incomplete. The classics on the stone tablet mainly focused on soul cultivation, which could greatly make up for the shortcomings of the Hundred Refinements of the Soul.

Ye Feng quickly copied four or five hundred words, which took up about thirteen or fourteen pages.

After copying it, he happily sorted it out, folded it carefully, and put it into the black silk bracelet.

When he looked up, he saw Shen Tianqi, the ancestor, San Zhier, and the Mozhu female ghost, all staring at him.

He laughed dryly and said, "Why are you looking at me? Look at the spiritual tablet. The cultivation method on it is really something valuable!"

Shen Tianqi couldn't help but ask, "Ye Feng, are you really planning to practice the technique on the spirit tablet? This seems to be an ancient witchcraft technique, and you are a disciple of the righteous path!"

"What's wrong with witchcraft? A great monk once said, 'When a righteous person practices evil, the evil becomes righteous. When an evil person practices righteous, the righteous becomes evil.' There's no good or evil in the practice of cultivation; it all depends on the person."

"That's true, but you're not a good person, you're an evil person!"

"Uh, Shen Tianqi... your mouth is even more disgusting than your cousin's! I, Ye Feng, am a model of gentleman and a paragon of morality. How can I not be a decent person?"

Ye Feng rolled his eyes at Shen Tianqi.

Shen Tianqi was about to retort, but Dugu Chan said, "This soul-cultivation technique is harmless. Practicing it secretly can actually increase the strength of your soul."

"Did you hear that? Our great ancestors said I could practice cultivation! What do you, a little girl who has never seen the world, know about this?"

"Old Ancestor, let's ignore this little girl and continue discussing the topic we were discussing earlier... You said earlier that our Yunhai Sect now has four spiritual tablets. Could this be one of them?"

Dugu Chan slowly shook his head and said, "Probably not."

"why?"

"The four spiritual tablets of the Yunhai Sect are all stored in a very secret place. There is no way they are lost."

"Oh, since it's not one of the four spiritual tablets collected by our Yunhai Sect, then which of the eight major sects back then could this spiritual tablet belong to?"

Dugu Chan thought for a moment and said, "It's probably the piece from the Xinghe Sword Sect."

"Didn't that spiritual tablet disappear for more than two thousand years?"

"Only the Xinghe Sword Sect's spiritual tablet has truly been unveiled; the other seven spiritual tablets have never appeared before anyone.

It is said that many people had seen the Xinghe Sword Sect's spiritual tablet in the past, and that tablet recorded the cultivation method of the ancient witchcraft and ghost arts.

Ye Feng suddenly understood and nodded, "So that's how it is. These people are really powerful. They actually found this spiritual tablet that has been lost for more than two thousand years."

After listening to Ye Feng's previous story, Shen Tianqi had a general understanding of the matter.

She couldn't help but say, "You're even more amazing. You actually managed to steal such an important stone tablet from under their strict guard."

Ye Feng was startled for a moment, then burst into laughter, waving his hands and saying, "It's just so-so, third best in the world. My hands are unrivaled in stealing in the Yunhai Sect. I can't do other things, but I'm an expert at stealing things, including stealing girls' hearts!"

"Bah! Shameless!"

Shen Tianqi snorted coldly and turned his head away, not looking at Ye Feng's disgusting face.