Chapter 85: Soul-Searching Technique Combined with Data Management!

Xu Zhengyang asked Liu Baoshan, “What effect does this Flood Dragon Blood Essence have for us cultivators?”

Liu Baoshan shook his head and replied, “For snake demons—

If they can completely refine this Flood Dragon Blood Essence, there might be a chance to glimpse the inheritance of the fallen Demon King, perhaps even inherit its innate divine ability!

But for you—

The quantity of this essence is simply too little. Whether used for alchemy or artifact refining, it’s not enough. It’s nothing more than a tasteless chicken rib.”

Hearing Liu Baoshan’s words, Xu Zhengyang found it odd and asked, “If I refine this drop of blood essence myself…

Would I have a chance to glimpse the bloodline inheritance of the fallen Demon King?”

“Third Young Master must never do this!”

Liu Baoshan immediately stopped him and said, “Although it’s just a single drop of blood essence, the baleful aura and resentment hidden within it are extraordinary!

More importantly—

The inheritance hidden within the Flood Dragon Blood Essence can only be faintly sensed by those of the serpent lineage!

If a human cultivator rashly refines it—

Not only will they be unable to sense the inheritance contained within, but they will also risk falling into deviation!

It’s not worth the risk!”

“Only the serpent lineage can faintly sense the inheritance in the Flood Dragon Blood Essence?”

Xu Zhengyang pondered upon hearing Liu Baoshan’s words, thinking to himself:

【So the Flood Dragon Blood Essence contains a special trigger condition?

Only when the condition is met,

will the blood essence reveal its hidden inheritance information.

Then…

Is it possible for me to disguise myself as ‘serpent lineage’ through some method, and thus unlock the inheritance hidden in this drop of Flood Dragon Blood Essence?】

Seeing Xu Zhengyang deep in thought, Liu Baoshan realized he still hadn’t given up on the idea.

He quickly shifted the topic and said, “Of course, if Third Young Master could bring this drop of Flood Dragon Blood Essence to the Beast-Taming Sect—

Those disciples who control snake demons, once they see this item…

They will surely go mad for it!”

“Many thanks for Elder Liu’s guidance.”

As he spoke, Xu Zhengyang grew eager to test his guess. He bade farewell to Liu Baoshan, saying, “In that case, this junior shall take his leave first!”

…

On the way back to the Twilight Shadow Pavilion—

Xu Zhengyang frowned as he pondered, thinking:

【How should I disguise myself as serpent lineage, to deceive the validation of this Flood Dragon Blood Essence?】

At that thought—

A spark of inspiration lit up in Xu Zhengyang’s mind.

He suddenly remembered that when he visited the Scripture Repository earlier, he had copied the entire catalog of techniques, secret arts, and martial skills from the first floor.

Among the records of the first floor—

There was one secret art: Soul-Searching Technique!

Once this technique was cast, it could forcibly extract all the memories of a living being, and from them obtain valuable information!

Thinking of this—

Xu Zhengyang did not hesitate. He immediately turned his flight direction and headed straight for the Transmission Hall of Celestial Mechanism Peak!

…

Although the Soul-Searching Technique harmed the natural order, it was nonetheless a very practical secret art, considered one of the essential means for cultivators roaming the cultivation world.

Precisely because of this—

Redeeming the Soul-Searching Technique was not cheap, requiring seven True Essence Tokens.

“Fortunately, I just completed a sect mission. Otherwise, I’d have to borrow True Essence Tokens from Senior Brother.”

As he muttered this, Xu Zhengyang handed over seven True Essence Tokens to the newly appointed Transmission Elder and exchanged them for the cultivation method of the Soul-Searching Technique.

…

A short while later—

When Xu Zhengyang returned to Divine Mechanism Peak, his Technique Manager had already gained a new spell slot: Soul-Searching Technique!

Returning to Twilight Shadow Pavilion, Xu Zhengyang first instructed the Su Sisters to take care of Da Fei, then dove straight into the Meditation Room.

Immediately afterward—

Xu Zhengyang set up a Tier 1 sealing restriction around himself, then opened the Jade Bottle sealed with the soul of the Golden-Eyed Python!

The soul of a beast had many uses.

Not only could it be refined into special casting materials, such as the Xuan Yin Soul-Piercing Needle,

It could also have all its memories erased and be embedded into a magical artifact, turning into an artifact spirit to help cultivators more precisely control their treasures.

After releasing the soul of the Golden-Eyed Python—

Xu Zhengyang wasted no time. He directly used the sealing restriction to restrain it, then activated the Soul-Searching Technique, pulling all of the python’s memories into his own Sea of Consciousness!

…

The Soul-Searching Technique could forcibly extract the memories of a soul, but what it obtained was a lifetime’s worth of experiences!

For this reason—

After extracting the soul’s memories, the caster still needed to spend a great deal of time sorting through the massive amount of information.

Only then could they search out the useful pieces of knowledge.

Although this Golden-Eyed Python was only a Tier 1 demonic beast, it had lived for over three hundred years since breaking its shell!

Most of its memories were repetitive, related to eating and cultivation.

But to precisely locate clues about the Flood Dragon Blood Essence within such a vast memory span…

The difficulty was like finding a needle in a haystack!

If it were someone else—

They would only be able to roughly skim through the python’s various growth stages, then select suspicious periods to examine more closely.

But Xu Zhengyang was different!

He only needed to import the python’s memories into his database.

In an extremely short time, he could complete data cleaning, build indexes, partitions, and carry out an entire suite of data processing.

At that point—

Xu Zhengyang only had to type the keyword 【Flood Dragon Blood Essence】 into the search bar of his database’s engine.

Within just a few seconds—

All the python’s memories related to the Flood Dragon Blood Essence would be presented before Xu Zhengyang’s eyes for him to review!

…

After a brief moment—

With manual screening, Xu Zhengyang successfully located the memory segment where the Golden-Eyed Python sensed the inheritance of the Flood Dragon Blood Essence!

Soon after—

Reading through this memory, Xu Zhengyang thought to himself:

【Three years ago, this Golden-Eyed Python devoured a frog demon. After digesting it, this drop of Flood Dragon Blood Essence appeared in its body.

Immediately afterward—

A cultivation method for absorbing the power of moonlight emerged directly in the python’s mind.

Then—

As the python gradually grew stronger, more information appeared in its consciousness…

Combat methods, explosive secret arts, concealment techniques, and even several low-level Five Elements spells…】

Thinking of this—

Xu Zhengyang continued in thought:

【It seems the verification method of this Flood Dragon Blood Essence is rather simple.

As long as it’s a snake—

It can gradually unlock the information hidden within, in line with its growth in strength…】

Immediately afterward—

Xu Zhengyang couldn’t help but furrow his brows. “So what I need to do next is to deceive this Flood Dragon Blood Essence.

Make it believe I’m a snake, and that should suffice, right?”

As he spoke—

Xu Zhengyang’s thoughts raced, running through countless plans in his mind, only to reject them one by one.

Just then—

Looking at the shrunken soul of the Golden-Eyed Python before him, weakened by the Soul-Searching Technique—

An idea suddenly formed in his heart!

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