Extra's Strategy: Cultivate Protagonists, Become Invincible-Chapter 105: Why Would A Demonic Cultivator Need To Use Demonic Techniques?

Chapter 105: Why Would A Demonic Cultivator Need To Use Demonic Techniques?

Xuanyuan Zhou looked intently at the law fragment she had carved on the ground after replenishing her qi reserve. She hadn’t learned the language of laws in her past life.

But still, she felt that all the law fragments she could possibly come up with using the provided letters would be a bit different from what one would expect from a contract-type law.

Is it me who is lacking? Or are the provided letters just not suitable for the creation of a contract-type law fragment?

Regardless, Xuanyuan Zhou didn’t see anything to be wary of for now. And so she proceeded with the second step, bringing out an emerald orb to connect it to the law fragment on the floor.

As soon as the mental connection was established, she activated the law fragment using a trickle of her recently replenished qi.

The law fragment gave off a faint red glow for a moment. It was a law that could be used for ’suppression’ as well as establishing a mental port for the exchange of information between two parties. Despite doing her best, she couldn’t make it resemble a contract any more than that without more letters to work with.

"Good job! Excellent work right there! Now why don’t you sit down and have a conversation with me about that entire process?" The silver statue exclaimed.

Xuanyuan Zhou immediately looked around for a place to sit down. The law fragment would affect her if she were to touch it. Yet, for some reason, she felt that it didn’t matter much whether it affected her or not.

Setting her worries aside, She sat down right on top of the law fragment she had painstakingly created. Immediately, a heady sensation of weakness and an urge to fall asleep assaulted her senses.

The floor is so warm and comfortable!

Xuanyuan Zhou wanted nothing more than to lie down and relax.

"Good! How do you feel?" A silk-smooth voice asked her.

"Very comfortable!" She answered slowly. Thinking up an answer took her a while.

"Ah, that’s wonderful to hear. Do you want to be even more comfortable? I can help you with that," the voice said in a manner one would coax a child.

Xuanyuan Zhou nodded slowly. Even more comfortable than her current situation? That would be heavenly!

"Then carefully try to hear the words I’m speaking! The more you understand, the more comfortable you’ll become."

The voice had changed from its initial commanding tone into a slippery, soft voice that made one want to keep listening to it. And Xuanyuan Zhou wasn’t an exception to this.

As she strained her ears, a joyful melody of fluttering wings and rustling sounds filled her mind. She did begin to feel even more relaxed than before! The fluttering sound felt incredibly pleasant to hear. The more she listened, the heavier her head became.

"Seeing how much you like this comfortable feeling, why don’t you try and see if you can memorize what you’re experiencing right now? Maybe it will become a permanent thing."

The ringing voice behind her ears whispered gently. Xuanyuan Zhou found the suggestion very reasonable.

So she tried her best to capture the frequency of the fluttering sound. There was a certain rhythm to it, she realized. Almost similar to the hypnotism techniques she frequently used in her past life.

How many demons had she subjugated with the constant rhythm that weakened their mental defenses? She understood why it worked that well...

"Ah, I can see that you have memorized it quite easily! Now how about you empty your head from all thoughts except that sound? Think about how comfortable sleeping like that would be."

Xuanyuan Zhou opened her eyes, a sour expression covering her face, and sat up nonchalantly. The statue of the lean silver giant in front of her that had been trying to hypnotize her stared at her displeased face blankly. She didn’t need to see its expression behind the helmet to guess how confused it was.

"Why would I want to sleep in the middle of a test? How would I pass?" Yuen Zhou shouted in displeasure.

"...Wh-How?" The automaton asked, disbelief evident in its voice.

This wasn’t possible! It had already invaded her mind at its most defenseless state. The only thing left was the transfer of spiritual corruption. How did she block the mental connection between them?

Xuanyuan Zhou didn’t answer the automaton. Instead, she put her hands together, copying the traditional pose of Taoist monks, and roared.

"Be cleansed, you evil thing! How dare you try to sabotage my test!"

A golden light exploded from her body, spreading in every direction, and filling up the hall with inescapable radiance.

The silver giant tried to kick her away, but the explosion of the golden rays seemed to affect its strength and mobility far faster than it expected. The automaton lost its balance halfway and crumbled to the floor, its entire body twitching madly.

Xuanyuan Zhou felt the tendrils of seeds of corruption it left in her spiritual world weaken. The sudden feeling of obedience and submission she had experienced was gone.

She didn’t break her praying posture, continuing to speak.

"Relieving wandering souls from pain is the duty of this penniless monk. Do you have any last wishes?"

The silver giant was stunned for a good few seconds before it reacted.

"Monk your mother! Do you think I can’t tell that you’re a demonic cultivator, you little shit? What kind of demonic cultivator uses Taoist techniques?"

The silver giant had never felt so indignant in its life. This wasn’t how things were supposed to go!

The soul shard encased within its body was becoming unstable. If the transmission of spiritual corruption between her and the shard didn’t take place in time, the bigger plan would be interrupted...

"Hey, who told you that demonic cultivators can’t use Taoist techniques? The world of cultivation is huge. A frog in a well like you hasn’t seen the wonders of the world. So stop spouting nonsense.

"I’ll tread on any path I feel like treading and claim to be whatever I feel like being. How can you complain over something so meaningless?"

Xuanyuan Zhou rebutted the automaton’s words swiftly, rendering it speechless again.

Even though her logic was flawless, something felt wrong!

But this wasn’t the appropriate time to argue. This little demonic cultivator, who must have come here prepared for spiritual invasions, was about to destroy the soul shard inside the automaton, and it couldn’t let that happen.

While Xuanyuan Zhou was lecturing the automaton, the soul shard itself took that matter into its hands. It used the special qi it had tricked Xuanyuan Zhou into absorbing at the beginning of the test to invade her mind again!

Having refined this plan for so many years, it had already considered the possibility of odd cultivators breaking out of its hypnosis. The special qi it had forced every disciple to absorb in this test was the fail-safe.

Sensing the successful invasion of her spiritual world, the soul shard rejoiced.

"Little girl, you’re still a century too young to see through my scheme!"

Just as Xuanyuan Zhou was about to chant the following part of the Taoist scripture, she felt her mind suddenly blank out. A frenzy of negative emotions poured into her mind, vague memories of pain and suffering, dark thoughts induced by rage and humiliation, and destructive urges beyond what a sane mind could bear.

Every bad experience, every instance in her life where she had felt sorrow, all instinctive reactions fueled by negativity, every discarded bit of wicked thoughts—they surfaced in her mind in enhanced states, and the collective of magnified negative emotions attacked her sanity.

"Oh? Is this the self-purification process you devised for your messed-up spirit? Now, that’s something I didn’t think I’d see in low-ranked civilizations. Very impressive! You’re a real talent!"

Instead of being overwhelmed, Xuanyuan Zhou nodded like a senior who had just noticed a talented youth in the streets. The soul shard, who was ready to laugh triumphantly with its success, was struck dumb again.

What the hell?

No one under the Soul Reformation realm should be able to deal with the attack of its soul shard... Unless they could cut off all emotions and enter a special state unique to soul reformation realm experts. But how did that make any sense here?

"So be it! Wandering soul in pain, let me free you of your sufferings and ferry you to the great heavenly river! May you find peace!"

Xuanyuan Zhou shouted in a righteous tone meanwhile, not giving the soul shard the time to think of a solution.

The golden rays of light emanating from her body formed numerous illusory chains, and they lashed at the soul shard repeatedly, not impeded in the slightest by the metal giant’s body it was encased within.

The soul shard tried to escape, only to be dragged back by the chains for another fiercer round of lashing. Soon, all that was left inside the automaton was a chaotic mass of smoke and shadows that no longer held sentience.

Watching the smoke waft out of the fallen silver giant’s mouth, Xuanyuan Zhou sneered.

"Mu Ran, your abomination of a soul shall never reach completion in this timeline! I, Xuanyuan Zhou, will be there to watch you fail!"

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