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At the foot of Qingyun Mountain, a disheveled man exuded an aura that screamed, "Keep away."

A chilling presence emanated from him, and a large, cyan centipede crawled on his arm.

Even in the dead of winter, this centipede was still active.

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Upon closer inspection, it was clear that this centipede was no ordinary creature, possessing the aura of a Rank 2 Demonic Beast.

The disheveled man himself was only at the Rank 3 level, and hidden within his tangled hair, one could spot a large black scorpion.

Its aura was also at Rank 2.

Around his waist were a dozen tightly packed small cages, each emitting a sinister aura, suggesting they contained venomous insects.

The man's name was Wu Tong, and his origins were untraceable.

Perhaps due to fate, he came to Qingyun Mountain and learned the Nine Imprint Art of Gui Xu.

He was a Rank 3 cultivator with a deep understanding of venomous insects.

Even before learning Xuan Huang's Nine Imprint Art of Gui Xu, he had used his own blood essence to nurture many venomous insects.

He was naturally aloof, treating people with icy indifference, but he was deeply passionate about all kinds of venomous creatures.

Perhaps it was a case of 'no madness, no success,' as shortly after the resurgence of the strange and bizarre, he began to nurture venomous insects using a unique method passed down through generations.

He had faced many life-or-death crises in the process.

Nurturing venomous insects was already a dangerous endeavor, let alone the rampaging insects after the resurgence of the strange and bizarre.

It was practically courting death.

However, Wu Tong miraculously forged his own path, using his own blood essence to nurture the venomous insects.

This not only slowed down their loss of control but also, through the connection of his blood essence, turned them into something akin to pets.

Of course, the price was not small, requiring him to nurture them with his own blood essence.

Until he saw Xuan Huang's Nine Imprint Art of Gui Xu, he realized that nurturing with blood essence was inferior; the superior method was nurturing with the divine soul.

This would completely eliminate the twisted instincts of the venomous insects, making them as obedient as his own limbs.

Not long ago, he had even seen the 'Primal Beast Taming Imprint,' which brought him immense shock.

So, it could be done this way! Not only could he enslave ferocious beasts, but he could also achieve immortality through the division of his soul, and even change his own talents based on the strength of the enslaved beasts.

As for the shortcomings of soul division?

As the saying goes, it's a shortcoming for geniuses, but a blessing for him.

He wasn't even confident in reaching Rank 2, let alone the sequelae that would only appear at Rank 4.

Furthermore, soul division was equivalent to splitting the divine soul, a huge crisis each time.

This was also not a problem for him.

Before he had the soul division method, he relied on blood essence to connect with the venomous insects, and their loss of instinct still impacted his divine soul.

In other words, even before the 'Primal Beast Taming Imprint,' he had experimented with a more cruel form of soul division.

He made some speculations based on the 'Primal Beast Taming Imprint'.

Perhaps he was the kind of genius suited for soul division; he hadn't died even using crude methods.

With Xuan Shi's profound 'Primal Beast Taming Imprint,' his safety would only increase, not become more dangerous.

Besides, he still had the original blood essence nurturing method!

Previously, it was a rough method.

With the 'Primal Beast Taming Imprint,' he could completely use it as a bridge to utilize the blood essence nurturing method.

It was similar to the dream power blessing of the Sweeping Monk, creating a starting point from the smallest details before Xuan Huang's lofty Dao techniques.

The difficulty would be greatly reduced.

Moreover, combining blood essence nurturing with divine soul nurturing would transform the venomous insects into another existence, which was Gu poison.

Or rather, Gu.

They would break away from being mere venomous insects and achieve a higher existence.

Unfortunately, unfortunately.

He obtained the general abilities of the 'Primal Beast Taming Imprint' through inquiries and spending points at Di Ting Tower.

He couldn't afford to buy the 'Primal Beast Taming Imprint' himself.

He knew that Sun Bole and others had founded the Beast Taming Sect, and he had considered joining.

After all, he admired Sun Bole; his research and dedication to ferocious beasts and spiritual beasts were no less than his own research and use of venomous insects.

He was a beast taming genius whom he greatly admired.

Moreover, he agreed with the people Sun Bole had gathered; they were all cultivators with special talents in beast taming.

However, beast taming was beast taming, and venomous insects were venomous insects.

Sun Bole wanted to recruit him into the Beast Taming Sect, but others didn't like it, and more than half voted against it.

Their goal was a pure Beast Taming Sect, a righteous sect, and venomous insects... didn't seem very aesthetically pleasing and didn't fit the sect's purpose.

Wu Tong didn't get angry after learning this; after all, a sect's original intention and purpose shouldn't be too biased.

A mismatched addition might seem powerful temporarily, but the sequelae would be endless.

It might even trigger internal strife within the sect, the kind that never ends.

Like the struggle between the Qi Sect and Sword Sect of Mount Hua.

Wu Tong gave up, and Sun Bole felt very sorry, but there was nothing he could do.

This was the downside of a sect; once a sect was established and became powerful, there would be more constraints.

Fortunately, not long after he recovered from his disappointment, the first Qingyun Mountain Hundred Arts Competition arrived.

Wu Tong was overjoyed; he could finally step onto the stage.

Although he was cold and difficult to approach, he was deeply committed to promoting his venomous insects and Gu insects.

Legends gathered in Qingyun Mountain.

Don't look down on the current cultivators, who are just slightly stronger than ordinary people.

Those who can come here have long-term vision.

A tree that can fill one's arms grows from a tiny shoot.

The future of Qingyun Mountain is a sacred land of all arts, an ancestral court of all Daos.

The cultivators who seem to have just entered the first rank now will all become ancestral masters who will be known throughout later generations.

The skills that seem insignificant now will surely become ancestral masters of a hundred arts, pioneers of the Dao.

Xuan Shi's glory will shine upon myriad realms.

But Xuan Shi's glory will not hinder individuals from shining.

Xuan Shi is the eternal sun, and being a shining point under the sun will also be a great honor.

Not to mention the increase in luck.

So, Wu Tong's coldness was only a facade; his heart yearned for the stage, yearned to create a great Dao and be known throughout later generations.

He eagerly anticipated the day when Qingyun Mountain would ascend, becoming the ancestral home of all Daos, and he would have his own small shrine. Even a statue of him in some corner would be worshipped and remembered by countless future cultivators.

This was his dream, his obsession.

His dream and obsession had coalesced into his Dao.

But at this moment, fate always loved to play tricks.

After registering with joy, he discovered that he was the only one participating in the Gu poison category?

What was this?

Would it be canceled because there were so few people?

How unlucky.

Fortunately, the host, Wang Zihai, said he would get back to him, as the organizers needed to discuss it.

This situation was not uncommon. Besides him in Gu poison, there was a female cultivator named Jinniang who, with two girls, had registered for the Spirit Weaving and Spirit Clothing project.

But it was just the three of them, a master and two disciples, making it impossible to compete.

Moreover, there were many projects with fewer than ten people.

After this news was conveyed to him, he was left waiting.

Please, please don't let it be canceled.

【Ding!】

A notification of a new message made Wu Tong tremble nervously. He, a person who was usually cold and skilled in using poisonous insects, hadn't felt this anticipation and nervousness in a long time.

"Hoo!"

No wrong, one first, one hair, one inside, one content, one in, one look!

"Haha!"

He laughed, laughing unrestrainedly after seeing the message.

His project was indeed canceled, but the profound Master, with foresight, had given instructions that those projects with fewer than ten people could directly join the Merit Hall.

From now on, they would be under the jurisdiction of the profound Master, becoming the profound Master's 'employees'.

Could this incredible luck really befall him?

He had always been unlucky. Before, his Blood Essence Insect Manipulation was always a life-or-death ordeal, each time a test of survival.

He never expected his luck to turn around.

Three delicate-looking, outstandingly elegant women also breathed a sigh of relief, then burst into cheerful laughter, just like him.

All three women were cultivators from Nanshi. They had only visited Qingyun Mountain once in a hurry. Their dreams were pulled into the Dream Gate, and then they left, unable to compete with those freaks.

Besides, their specialty wasn't cultivation and combat, which was truly distressing.

After settling in Nanshi, they had a hard time. They finally obtained some low-grade spirit silkworms and some low-grade mulberry hemp.

The spirit clothing they painstakingly wove at great cost only had a mere low-grade third-level defense.

Moreover, the reason it reached the third level wasn't because they had a unique secret recipe, but because the materials themselves reached that level.

Spirit clothing required various magic arrays or spirit patterns, which was the proper state of spirit clothing.

But the miserable master and disciples' cultivation levels were not good. The master, Jinniang, was still diligently studying spirit pattern talisman techniques.

She wasn't even proficient in drawing talismans, let alone combining spirit patterns and embroidering them onto clothes.

Even if they were embroidered, they had to be arranged in a special order, as the effect of different combinations varied.

And so on.

They hadn't even tried some of the difficulties and troubles because they were poor.

Many ideas and experiments were only in their imaginations.

The three pitiful embroiderers were weak, had little fame, and didn't even have angel investment.

Of course, it wasn't that they hadn't looked for powerful forces or cultivators with resource points.

But you always had to show people something, right?

Well, after this demonstration, those who wanted to invest all left.

They were even angry, thinking, 'If I didn't see that you're three women, I'd beat you up.

Do you think I'm an idiot?'

"A spirit garment whose material itself is at the third level of the entry level. If you give me these materials, I will have the third level of the entry level even if I put it on my body."

"Why do I need you to do it?"

"How, is beautiful sewing also a specialty?"

The three hurriedly quibbled, saying that they still had unique skills.

When the points tycoon heard this, he said, "What? You also have spirit pattern weaving techniques, using embroidery to achieve the effect of spirit talismans, and even want to achieve different effects through the combination of spirit patterns?"

"This is good, I'll invest in this. Show me the sample."

The three embroiderers weakly said, "There's a PPT, but no physical object yet. We're still working hard."

Investor: … …

The investors all left, feeling like they were dreaming.

There are so many scammers these days. Ever since the legend of the chemical engineering PhD spread, everyone wants to become a chemical engineering PhD and find angel investors.

But no one's points come from thin air.

The only reason the three embroiderers weren't beaten up was because others saw that they were weak and didn't want to lay a hand on them.

Fortunately, good news came: the Hundred Arts Competition.

Jinniang gritted her teeth and took her two disciples to participate.

And Wang Zihai's reply came.

“Wuwu——”

Jinniang cried.

“Master, Master, don’t cry, it’s okay, it’s normal to be canceled because there are too few people. I’ll eat less in the future, and we can last for a while longer.”

The second disciple touched her stomach and made a difficult promise.

“No, no, Master is crying with joy. Yuniang, Yunniang, we have a position now, we have been recruited by the Merit Hall, we are now people of the profound Master.”

Master Jinniang said with tears in her eyes.

Her two disciples were dumbfounded, thinking that their master had lost her mind from the shock.

In short, the cultivators of the small projects with fewer than ten people were in a similar state after receiving this news.

Some laughed loudly and excitedly, while others cried with joy.

After Wang Zihai's statistics at noon, he found that no one chose to refuse. They were all packing their luggage and rushing to join the Merit Hall.

Becoming a member of the Merit Hall.

From now on, their research would be supported by the profound Master.

Of course, it wasn't unlimited supply. It required Sun Tong and Xia Qing's review, and you needed to show progress and produce periodic results.

However, you could leave at any time if you wanted.

When you felt that your wings were full, you could completely break away from the Merit Hall.

Whether you wanted to establish a force, join a powerful force, or leave, it was up to you.

That's why they say the profound Master has boundless love and is supreme.

He never thought of getting anything in return, and has always been cultivating all cultivators.

… …

And those who were also small projects, but had more than ten people, also breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the news.

Although they weren't lucky enough to be directly recruited, they could determine the top ten.

With a stage to show themselves, even if they couldn't get into the top ten, under the example of the profound Master and the Merit Hall,

they would also be recruited by powerful forces, or even directly gather together to build their own forces.

It can only be said that the Hundred Arts Competition is an opportunity to leap through the dragon gate.

The stage has been set up for you, and the achievement depends entirely on yourself.

… …