Infinite Slaughter System: I Kill, Therefore I Ascend!

Li Ling glanced over towards the entrance of the cave and knew that Majin Three was still there with the items of the Fire Heart Sect, including the precious one said to be worth even risking annihilation from the Six Paths Demon Sect.

However, he did not call the fellow out, but rather checked his remaining Slaughter Points, seeing that he had 3590 left. Glancing through his list, he felt he could afford one more upgrade for the Yin-Yang Reversal Art, and so paid 1000 Slaughter Points to increase it to the Expert level.

Li Ling smiled and was put under a day-long reclusive state that saw him shift forms back and forth, but far less frequently than before and far more stably. This time, not only did his physicality shift, but his aura as well, spreading around him to show either fiery heat or icy coolness that affected a small area around him.

Post completion, he sighed deeply and opened his eyes, feeling as if he was reborn once more. This Yin-Yang Reversal Art was less like a daoist art and more like an immortal art, because the abilities and theories it contained were simply in contravention to the common sense of Firmament Heaven.

To cut straight to the chase, the four main abilities of the Yin-Yang Reversal Art had seen another leap in effectiveness, gaining whole new sub-abilities.

For the internal gender switch, he could now separate his two genders in terms of cultivation progress. So his normal male state could reach Nascent Soul with his qi cultivation practice while his female self could still be at Core Formation or lower. On top of that, each gender could practice their own unique technique rather than have to switch one technique from yin to yang all the time.

For the external gender switch, he could now switch the gender of non-humans, so demon beasts or spirit beasts and animals were no longer safe from his clutches. If he wanted to breed a special strain of a beast that was endangered or had only one left, he could now switch it, if it was male, to female, allowing for propagation to continue.

In regard to the pheromones, there was now a rather insidious ability to cast it on two people, making both of them who may not even like each other become like mad rabbits that mated crazily. If Li Ling was willing to set up a stall, he could become a love doctor.

And finally, with regard to the sensation enhancer, there was now a sensation canceler. In other words, whether Li Ling himself wanted to feel nothing but for his partner to feel everything, he could now do this, though Li Ling was not sure why he would ever want to do that.

The current cost to increase the Yin-Yang Reversal Art had become a little too steep at 1500 Slaughter Points, so he held back from rushing to Perfection.

Looking at the rest of his skills, there were a few more that still needed investment, so with a mild look of interest, he continued on, passing over the perfected Meteor Spell to the Soul Piercing Seal. This one went without saying, its utility was extremely valuable to him, as he wouldn't have been able to easily control Luo Roumei and the three Majin brothers.

Against Cai Dong back then, he could only use the Qi Sealing Technique, which was why he had to keep her in close proximity all the time and eventually had to let her go because she was a burden. With the Soul Piercing Seal, this no longer became a problem, so Li Ling had even increased it to the Expert grade previously to enhance its effectiveness.

Now what would perfecting it bring?

Li Ling paid 30 Slaughter Points to send it to the Master level, then 35 to finally perfect it. As it was a normal upgrade, it only took him mere seconds to go through it and he found that the Perfection stage actually yielded some good changes, like the strength of the seal and the ability to subjugate more people at once.

Li Ling's previous limit had been five people, which was why he chose to number them and did not wantonly enslave everyone. Now, he could subjugate ten people, which was enough to form a small elite unit of enforcers for himself, which could accomplish many things.

Seeing that it could also be limit broken, Li Ling smiled and initiated the upgrade, feeling his mind become overwhelmed with a flood of information that lasted a whole day and a half like the Heavenly Network.

When he came out of it, there was an M symbol on Li Ling's own forehead, but unlike the others who could be controlled by it, this M was the Dao Manifestation of his new technique. It could be changed at will, but Li Ling decided to hold off for now until he found a proper name for his prospective force.

But this new technique…

This was definitely another Immortal Art, Li Ling thought grimly, because what it could do completely defied common sense. Anyone enslaved by Li Ling would perfectly retain their consciousness, memories, goals, and wishes, just that everything would align with what Li Ling wanted.

It was deeper than just brainwashing, because brainwashing could be broken. This technique affected both the soul and spirit, not just the body, so even if you formed your Nascent Soul or entered the higher levels, it would still be effective. It also could not be removed by spiritual methods that cleansed curses or negative states, because it was not actually a negative state.

In other words, unless you had a special top-level method or treasure to block this from latching on, then once trapped, the enslavement was basically permanent. Even if the person died and became a ghost cultivator in the underworld, they would still be loyal to Li Ling.

Terrifying!

Li Ling decided to name this method the Dao Soldier Technique, and its cost was as high as that of the Heavenly Network, requiring an investment of 5000 Slaughter Points to go from Entry to Advanced.

Checking the time, about a quarter over 5 days had passed, meaning he had time to limit break only one more technique before having to rush to the Fire Heart Sect location and flatten them to complete his dispatch.

Seeing as there were only two daoist arts left on the list, which were the Memory Plunder Method, which had been untouched and unused since being acquired, and the Blessed Augury which was unable to be limit broken as it had reached Perfection, Li Ling naturally chose to invest in the Memory Plunder Method.

He was curious, what new bizarre immortal art would this one become?

The Memory Plunder Method cost a total of 100 Slaughter Points to go from Entry to Perfection, and its upgrades were worthwhile. The quality of the memories was upgraded, the searchability and specific nature of memories needed were more precise, the damage to the target was greatly reduced and in some cases, they would only come off with a mild headache, and finally, the art's penetrative effect was stronger.

Even as it was, it was entirely perfect and did not really need an upgrade. However, seeing the option to limit break it, who was Li Ling to turn down the offer of free empowerment?

Limit break!

Still seated on the Mountain Splitting Blade and protected by the dull Majin Two, Li Ling entered his final seclusion for a day, in which he finally upgraded his last daoist art to something unique. Upon opening his eyes, he first hid the M symbol on his forehead and called over Majin Two.

Majin Two came over and felt Li Ling place a hand on his head. Before he could react, Li Ling used the new art to completely extract his memories and then crushed the head of Majin Two, finally ending the fellow's misery after having slaughtered his own family and friends.

｢System Prompt: You have gained 40 Slaughter Points.｣

Li Ling took his hand away and released a little flame, burning the corpse into ash casually before grinning.

The new technique was something fierce, which no longer just browsed memories and took the ones he needed from a pile of chaff, but rather directly extracted everything and allowed the user to handle it as they pleased, with no backlash.

Like the Blessed Augury and the Heavenly Network, this technique required the presence of a Purple Mansion, and in one of the larger rooms of the Purple Mansion that had previously been empty, a huge library had formed with rows and rows of bookshelves.

Li Ling's spiritual body walked into this room and went to the first bookshelf closest to the entrance. There, his spiritual body placed a rather thin book on the shelf, which constituted the entirety of Majin Two's memories.

Looking at the vast chamber with space for thousands more of these kinds of books, Li Ling couldn't help but laugh. Soon, his Purple Mansion would become a library of the human way, containing the lives and memories of countless beings across the continent for him to peruse as he wished, without it ever affecting his own sense of self.

To that extent, Li Ling named the new method Memory Archive Extraction.

Among all the upgraded arts, it had the second lowest initial cost at 250 Slaughter Points, but that was likely because upgrading it would only increase the space in this library for Li Ling to store more memories. As he had so much space already, he did not see the need to waste any more Slaughter Points, especially with his second realm Asura Blood Descent coming soon.

｢Infinite Slaughter System

Owner: Li Ling

Slaughter Points: 2,365

Daoist Arts:

1. Fire Stream Art – Perfection (Cannot be Limit Broken, Insufficient Realm.)

2. Mana Regressing Art – Perfection (Cannot be Limit Broken, Insufficient Realm.)

3. Dao Seeing Eye – Entry (0/1500)

4. Heavenly Network – Entry (0/5000)

5. Spirit Sense Control – Perfection (Cannot be Limit Broken, Insufficient Realm.)

6. Earth Tunneling Art – Perfection (Cannot be Limit Broken, Insufficient Realm.)

7. Golden Blockade Technique – Perfection (Cannot be Limit Broken, Insufficient Realm.)

8. Restoration Spell – Entry (0/200)

9. Spirit Isolation Mantra – Perfection (Cannot be Limit Broken, Insufficient Realm.)

10. Yin-Yang Reversal Art – Expert (0/1500)

11. The Meteor Spell – Perfection (Cannot be Limit Broken, Insufficient Realm.)

12. Dao Soldier Technique – Entry (0/5000)

13. Memory Archive Extraction – Entry (0/250)

14. Blessed Augury – Perfection (Cannot be Limit Broken, Insufficient Realm.)

Non Daoist Techniques:

1. Li Family Spear Technique – Perfection (Can be Limit Broken, 0/50)

2. Disguise Art – Perfection (Can be Limit Broken, 0/50)

3. Swift Swallow Step – Perfection (Can be Limit Broken, 0/50)

4. Sky Rending Palm – Perfection (Can be Limit Broken, 0/50)

5. Hidden Sleeve Art – Mastery (0/4).｣

As for the non-daoist arts, Li Ling did not have the mind to upgrade them right now. Not only was his time limited to less than a day, about 16 hours in total to finish his dispatch, but even if they were limit broken and yielded awesome new things, he already had a lot of awesome new things right now.

He needed time to digest these new unique immortal arts and add them to his subconscious repertoire, utilizing them in the best situations effortlessly. Li Ling was determined not to fall into the trap of having multiple awesome abilities but forgetting about them on the daily.

Anyway, it was finally time to deal with Majin Three and the so-called special treasure that he had hidden away. So Li Ling made a hand sign, which seemed to be a feature of special arts, of the Big Dipper Seal, interlocking his fingers over the other and channeling his spiritual power.

Spiritual power was not the same as Magic Power, or spiritual qi from qi cultivation, nor was it from body refinement. This was a separate and typically unseen, uncontrollable energy in one's spiritual space that becomes accessible after Nascent Soul, which was why Li Ling needed to use special hand signs to achieve this.

Same with the Blessed Augury Technique which required the Heaven-Earth-Man hand seal to be activated, as it also used spiritual power and was even the factor in the creation of his Purple Mansion before reaching the proper realm.

The M symbol in Li Ling's forehead reappeared, connecting with his weaker slave seals placed in the Sea of Consciousness of Majin One and Majin Two, even Luo Roumei as well. Unfortunately, he could only interact with the slave seals within the range of his spirit sense, so he could only passively sense that Luo Roumei was troubled and pensive, while Majin One was confused and restless, feeling the urge to resist.

When they felt Li Ling's presence from afar, their minds shook with thunder, as if being a tiny ant witnessing a celestial deity hovering over them.