Within the Formless Ancient Country, in the Yao Kingdom, Jinyu Capital...

An estate...

The plaque reading "Jinyu Wang Family" hung over the door, with majestic stone lions guarding it. The vigilant guardians stood tall and proud, and beyond the shadow wall and the reception room lay an exceptionally grand incense hall.

On either side of the incense hall were couplets. The first line read "A house of gold and jade inherits ancestral virtue," and the second line read "Clad in imperial glory, looking up to divine grace."

Inside the incense hall, on a vermilion shrine, stood a divine statue carved in beautiful jade. The deity held a sword in one hand and a banner in the other, surrounded by purple lightning, standing on a giant black-and-white dragon — truly exuding boundless might and majesty.

The Wang family's grandmother was gleefully leaning on her cane, watching a young boy bowing and burning incense in front of the statue, sincerely performing a three-kowtow ceremony.

Beside her, Song Yan — or the Wang family's fourth uncle — stood with a graceful woman. With a harmonious smile, they watched the boy intently.

After the boy finished the ritual, Song Yan limped forward, supporting himself with his cane, to place a crown on the young man's head. He then nodded and said, "Xiao Bin, you display some of the spirit of the Wang family's sons!"

The boy addressed as Xiao Bin bowed in return, respectfully saying, "Thank you, Fourth Uncle," and then turning to call out one by one to those around him: "Grandmother, Mother, First Aunt, Second Aunt..."

Following this, he bowed deeply, his eyes burning like a fierce fire, and declared, "After today, Xiao Bin will certainly bring honor to the Wang Family and never disgrace its name!"

Everyone nodded with smiles.

...

The coming-of-age ceremony of the Wang family's young master took the whole day.

And as night fell...

Song Yan returned to his room and closed the door.

The spring breeze blew open the oiled paper window, and the peach blossoms outside were in full bloom.

He let out a long breath.

He had left the Celestial Venerable Secret Realm two years ago.

Back then, when the Celestial Venerable Secret Realm was destroyed by the Netherworld's Qi, the cataclysm was unfathomable; surviving it was a narrow escape from death.

The Netherworld ghost worm, that would relentlessly pursue any discovered life like the soul-reaping Impermanence, darting about the space. Its flesh and blood strength seemed even to surpass that of ordinary Netherworld Corpse Demons.

It couldn't be beaten to death, and once it found a gap, the Netherworld ghost worm would desperately burrow into a person's flesh.

If it were only the Netherworld ghost worm, he could handle it.

But his luck was not so good, or perhaps...it was because he took that "Mirage Mist Toad Chanting Three-legged Scripture" and became entangled with Meng Po's toad.

When the Celestial Venerable Secret Realm was being destroyed, that Meng Po toad actually caught him.

If it weren't for Po Xu Yuzhuang suddenly stopping it, causing Meng Po's toad to be dragged into the ruins with her roots, he...might not have made it.

In the end, he escaped severely injured; however, due to contact with Meng Po's toad, Po Xu Yuzhuang's refining imprint was gone, severing the connection between him and Song Yan; as for Su Yao, there was no trace, and her life or death uncertain, as everything had become too chaotic in the end.

The fog around Meng Po's toad left him bewildered, wandering near a desolate mountain for nearly two years before coming to his senses.

After healing his injuries, he traveled towards the territory of the Human Race, passing through a Mortal Realm at the southern edge of the Formless Ancient Race, where he encountered the freshly deceased body of a well-dressed man as he traversed the mountains.

The man had fallen from a great height, snake bite marks on his wrist, and a rare bundle of herbs scattered about, suggesting he was a wealthy medicine gatherer who fell to his death after being bitten while herbgathering.

Song Yan had seen many dead on his journey, one more or less made no difference to him, but these words "herbs," "fine attire," and "mortal" piqued his interest.

Why?

Because of the Cultivation Technique "Dragon Burial Law."

The "Dragon Burial Law" was handed to him by the Celestial Venerable Good Corpse while conscious, and observing him closing up the stone chamber later, it seemed as if he was entrusting this technique to him with high hopes.

Besides this, another fiery Red Jade Bottle contained a puzzling scrap of hide.

The skin's material unknown, its purpose unknown.

Song Yan carefully preserved the mysterious hide while beginning to delve into the "Dragon Burial Law" technique.

Over decades, he repeatedly scrutinized the "Mirage Mist Toad Chanting Three-legged Scripture," in hopes of uncovering the technique of "Ancient Demon's Lifebound Secret Treasure and True Body's Combination Refinement." However, the answer was singular: without the essence blood inheritance of the "Three-legged Toad," a secret medicine was needed.

But even the phrase "requires a secret medicine" was concluded by Song Yan after thorough study — how could the "Mirage Mist Toad Chanting Three-legged Scripture" possibly have recorded the formula for a secret medicine?

While the "Mirage Mist Toad Chanting Three-legged Scripture" didn't have it, the "Dragon Burial Law" did.

It included specific descriptions for "Ancient Crimson Palace," "Ancient Purple Mansion," "Ancient Divine Infant," and even breakthrough techniques for "Ancient Divinity Transformation," and the required secret medicines.

For instance, with "Ancient Crimson Palace," back then, Song Yan spent tens of thousands of years deducing and cultivating to forcibly enter it.

Later, when the True Spirit Fragment appeared, he thought having the jade would make breakthroughs in the Ancient Crimson Palace easier.

However, after seeing the "Dragon Burial Law," he realized there was actually a medicine called "Profound Favor Soup"; drinking this soup and using the True Spirit Jade to break through the Ancient Crimson Palace would result in a much greater success rate.

Essentially, regardless of whether you're a genius or not, as long as you have average talent, breakthroughs are possible.

Likewise, the "Ancient Divine Infant Realm" also requires a secret medicine.

This secret medicine is named "Nine-Turn Soul-Melting Soup."

And the ingredients for this "Nine-Turn Soul-Melting Soup," surprisingly, are herbs that can all be found in the mortal world, although requiring substantial years of growth before gathering, and must be refined with Profound Qi Anomalous Fire after gathering.

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