"Unless you take me as your master and let me in."
"Otherwise, you can forget about obtaining the Sixth-Grade Golden Core Method."
Wan Hao snorted coldly.
Although he had no way to deal with Ye Hao before him, the other party couldn't do anything to him either.
At worst, he could just find another Qi Refinement cultivator to possess.
It was just that he was still reluctant to give up such a fine body right before his eyes.
Ye Hao laughed. Looking at him, he sneered, "You don't seriously think I only have defensive Golden Light Talismans on me, do you?"
"Unless you can pull out a Second-Tier Fireball Talisman."
"Otherwise, no amount of First-Tier Fireball Talismans will deal any damage to—"
Wan Hao's words came to an abrupt halt before he could finish.
Because he watched helplessly as Ye Hao pulled out another stack of Fireball Talismans.
Every single one radiated an intense fire element.
These Fireball Talismans were ones that even at his peak, he wouldn't dare take head-on.
They were at least Second-Tier high-grade.
"Huh."
"Why'd you stop talking?"
"Are you just naturally quiet?"
Ye Hao looked at Wan Hao not far away with a playful expression.
"Let me go, and I'll agree to anything!"
Wan Hao finally realized it.
The guy in front of him had been playing him like a fool from the very beginning.
His life had been in the other party's hands all along, ready to be taken at any moment.
After all, in his current remnant soul state, he couldn't withstand even a single Second-Tier Fireball Talisman.
"Wouldn't it have been better if you were this sensible from the start?"
"Now, hand over the Sixth-Grade Golden Core Method."
Ye Hao teased mockingly.
Wan Hao's face turned extremely ugly, but his life was still held in the guy's hands.
He had no choice but to bow his head.
"I don't have a Sixth-Grade Golden Core Method. I lied to you earlier."
Wan Hao gritted his teeth and admitted.
"If you don't have a Golden Core method, you should at least have a Foundation Establishment method, right?"
Ye Hao frowned.
Although he had long guessed that there was something fishy about the man's Sixth-Grade Golden Core Method, he hadn't expected the guy to be lying from start to finish—there was no so-called Sixth-Grade Golden Core Method at all.
Thus, he could only lower his demands.
He was currently just a Qi Refinement cultivator, still far from Foundation Establishment.
Not to mention the Golden Core realm above Foundation Establishment, which would take even more time.
So a Golden Core method was in no rush.
However, what Ye Hao didn't expect was that upon hearing this request, Wan Hao still shook his head: "The Foundation Establishment method I obtained was passed down by my family. The restriction planted in my mind was set by a Golden Core cultivator."
"If I speak of the Foundation Establishment method,"
"I'll die on my own without you even raising a hand."
Hearing this, Ye Hao's face turned utterly dark.
No Golden Core method was one thing, but he couldn't even get a Foundation Establishment method either.
"Then you might as well just die."
Clutching a Second-Tier supreme-grade Fireball Talisman, Ye Hao made to give him a swift end.
Wan Hao felt that Ye Hao truly intended to strike, his killing intent completely unhidden.
He hurriedly shouted, "I have a possession method! I can pass it to you!"
"Engrave the possession method on this jade slip."
Ye Hao frowned.
Even so, he pulled out a blank jade slip and tossed it to him.
Wan Hao didn't dare overthink it, dutifully recording the possession method inside the blank jade slip.
Only after a long while did he finish engraving it.
Ye Hao looked at the jade slip in front of him and pressed it against the space between his eyebrows.
"Damn it!"
"I was careless."
Yet in the very next second, he sensed something wrong.
Ye Hao felt a sudden surge of pressure swelling in his mind.
A cold, scattered consciousness flowed along the jade slip and rushed into his sea of consciousness.
While engraving the jade slip, Wan Hao had split off a strand of his remnant soul and hidden it inside.
Ye Hao hadn't guarded against it in time, lacking experience after all.
He had allowed the soul to draw close.
Shrouded in dark soul aura, Wan Hao pounced straight toward his divine soul.
Intending to forcibly seize the body and complete the possession.
Wan Hao thrashed recklessly inside the sea of consciousness, eroding Ye Hao's soul foundation, preparing to take over the physical body.
Yet in the next instant, Wan Hao suddenly froze.
Deep within Ye Hao's sea of consciousness, a pure, brilliant golden spark floated quietly.
It possessed no overwhelming pressure, yet contained a supreme, inviolable power.
It stood silently at the origin of the divine soul.
"Damn it, what on earth is that?!"
"Why is there such a terrifying existence inside your body?!"
Wan Hao's soul body instantly trembled as an extreme fear born of pure instinct swept over him.
He could clearly sense it.
The realm of that golden spark was far beyond anything he could comprehend.
In the next second, Wan Hao felt an urge to retreat, wanting to escape the sea of consciousness immediately.
Unfortunately, it was already too late.
The golden spark flickered subtly.
An imperceptible thread of golden light gently swept over the remnant soul.
There was no loud roar, no violent shockwave.
Wan Hao's remnant soul dissolved instantly, like snow meeting a blazing sun.
Without even having time to let out a single wail.
All of Wan Hao's consciousness, memories, and resentment were completely erased, dissipating into the sea of consciousness without leaving a single trace.
Even on the outside, the remaining half of Wan Hao's remnant soul was absorbed by the system.
Ye Hao's sea of consciousness instantly restored its calm and quiet.
He only felt a faint wave of dizziness before his mind cleared up as usual, the cold sensation that had invaded earlier vanishing without a trace.
Yet in the next second, he knitted his brows slightly; the peril of that moment had been fleeting, but intense.
"Damn it, I was still too careless."
"If not for the system, I would've been done for this time."
Ye Hao's forehead was drenched in sweat, and even his back was soaked.
Had the system not acted, he likely really would have been possessed this time.
He had thought of attacking, having the Fireball Technique, and even holding a Second-Tier supreme-grade Fireball Talisman in his hand.
He had defensive measures too, even having a Second-Tier supreme-grade Golden Light Talisman active.
Yet he still failed to guard against it.
He never expected Wan Hao would take advantage of engraving the jade slip to hide inside it and strike at him.
However, Ye Hao also gained something from this experience.
At the very least, he could confirm that the system resided within his mind.
Making him invincible there.
He no longer worried about anyone possessing him.
"Bloodline Fetal Takeover Technique."
"What a wicked possession method. No wonder this guy managed to succeed at body snatching even as a Foundation Establishment cultivator."
The possession method recorded by Wan Hao was genuine.
However, after Ye Hao read through it, his face grew even darker.
It was simply because this method was far too insidious and vicious.
A cultivator would use their own bloodline to conceive an offspring. Before the fetus reached one month of age and while its divine soul had yet to form and stabilize, the cultivator would sneak into the mother's womb, devour the newborn fetus's soul consciousness, and occupy the fetal body.
They would rely on the mother's pregnancy to nourish their own soul until birth.
Coming into the world in the form of an infant.
Even a Foundation Establishment cultivator could complete a body snatching using this method.
Yet such a method was considered a forbidden technique even among demonic cultivators.
He didn't know how it ended up in Wan Hao's hands.
"Better destroy it."
Ye Hao did not hesitate, crushing the jade slip in his hand directly.
Even if he were given the chance to learn such a method, he wouldn't want to.
Even though he had been in this world for over a decade, decades of education from his past life still hadn't let him forget the values he had formed.
How could he possibly accept taking the life of his own child to achieve possession?
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust."
Ye Hao piled all the corpses together.
He pulled out a Second-Tier supreme-grade Fireball Talisman and ignited them.
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