About the contents of the Soul Descent Technique, Yuan Ming had already gotten a rough understanding through searching the memories of the Residual Soul of the Free Venerable.

To execute this technique, one must be able to control the Desire Power to a certain extent.

Desire Power, intangible and colorless, is elusive and unpredictable. Besides those who cultivate something like the "Great Freedom Heart Sutra," most Soul Cultivators cannot truly perceive and control Desire Power; therefore, very few within the Wu Yue Sect can execute the Soul Descent Technique.

However, Yuan Ming's eyes brightened.

He sat on the White Jade Lotus Platform inside the Stealing Heaven Tripod. Without any direction, the Desire Power within the platform would spontaneously merge into his Divine Soul, and it was without any side effects, naturally fulfilling the conditions needed for cultivating the Soul Descent Technique.

It was just unknown whether the Soul Descent Technique could function like a Desire Power anchor, allowing his Divine Sense to descend from the Stealing Heaven Tripod Space.

If possible, it would provide him another way and means to influence the outside world from within the Stealing Heaven Tripod.

Beyond these, there were no more valuable pieces of information in the Residual Soul of the Free Venerable.

Yuan Ming collected his thoughts and stood up.

Lu Da lay on the ground, surprisingly not perished yet, but his breath grew weaker and weaker, like the flame in the wind, which could extinguish at any time.

"Fellow Daoist Yuan… you promised to spare my life… please save me…" he said with difficulty.

"I can," Yuan Ming said indifferently, flicking his finger and shooting a green light that merged into Lu Da's body.

The wound on Lu Da's chest healed significantly, and his breath stabilized considerably.

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Yuan… no, Lord Nether Moon God, from now on, I am willing to follow at your side and work for the Moon Sect!" Lu Da exclaimed with tearful gratitude, expressing his loyalty.

"How foolish to really let an enemy go because of a single phrase. Once the injury is healed, immediately plan to escape and report to the higher-ups, the previous intelligence about the Moon Sect had been greatly misleading…" he thought disdainfully of Yuan Ming's behavior of keeping promises, secretly turning thoughts in his mind.

"I trust you." Yuan Ming smiled faintly and flicked his sleeve.

The nearby Night Parade of Hundred Demons flew over, emitting a black light that coiled around Lu Da's body like tentacles and dragged him toward the painting.

"Lord Nether Moon God, what are you doing! Ah…" Lu Da felt his body getting colder and colder, with a fear of being dragged into the abyss of the underworld, and he yelled in alarm and anger.

"Lu Da, having been a pawn of the Wu Yue Sect, you have committed many atrocities against the heavens, did you really think you could continue to roam freely? Since you promised to serve the Moon Sect, serve me as a Ghost Slave from now on," Yuan Ming said emotionlessly.

The black light emitted by the Night Parade of Hundred Demons intensified, and "whoosh," it completely dragged Lu Da's body inside, cutting off his screams abruptly.

Yuan Ming then took the All Living Beings Dream Rune back into the Night Parade of Hundred Demons and thoroughly checked the entire cave again, finding a few Foundation Establishment Cultivator's Magic Artifacts, all common items. The only somewhat valuable item was a Warm Jade Pendant that aids the cultivation of Soul Cultivators, but it was of no use to him.

Additionally, Yuan Ming also found some cultivation elixirs and various blood-red forbidden talismans, which looked like the "Divine Talismans" Lu Da had previously implanted into Xu Che, but they were just deceptive tricks.

Afterwards, Yuan Ming moved beside Xu Che, took out the Empty Gloves and put them on, and mustered his Soul Power into them.

The gloves emitted a flickering blue ethereal little hand that moved flexibly with rings of blue light at the fingertips, easily permeating into the void.

"So it is, using this method to alter memories…" Yuan Ming carefully sensed the blue little hand and nodded slightly.

He had already mastered the Soul Searching ability; the black light emitted by the Soul Searching Divine Ability could only probe the surface of the memory, but this blue hand had stronger penetration, able to delve deep into the sea of memories and rewrite them.

Yuan Ming plunged the blue hand into Xu Che's head, quickly found the memory altered by Lu Da - Xu Che had been altered to see Lu Da as the murderer of his mother and had been controlled by him for many years with Illusion Techniques to serve his purposes and propagate the Moon Sect.

And in Xu Che's mind, the Moon Sect was also modified into a cult that exploited ordinary people for money and committed all kinds of evil deeds.

Yuan Ming shook his head, controlling the blue hand, and began correcting Xu Che's memories.

A sound person, especially a Cultivator, possesses self-healing abilities for the Divine Soul. Therefore, correcting memories is much easier than rewriting them. Since the altered memories hadn't been in place very long and were discovered in time, Yuan Ming did not take much time to complete the task.

Xu Che's eyebrows twitched a few times, and he opened his eyes.

"My lord! How are you here? What happened to me? My mind is very confused…" he said bewilderedly.

"You were captured by someone from the Wu Yue Sect…" Yuan Ming recounted the events.

"So it was like that. I, your subordinate, was controlled and made a grave mistake. Please punish me," Xu Che said after hearing everything, overcome with shame, and knelt on the ground.

"The Wu Yue Sect has existed for ten thousand years. Back then, even Chang Chun Temple along with various factions couldn't destroy it. You couldn't resist on your own power, so don't blame yourself too much, get up," Yuan Ming said, flicking his sleeve, and a tender force lifted Xu Che up.

"This time, we are lucky you discovered it in time and eliminated Lu Da and others, otherwise the Moon Sect would truly have disintegrated," Xu Che said, adjusting his emotions and speaking with lingering fear.

"With the growing strength of the Moon Sect, it will certainly encounter various crises, so there's no need to worry too much," Yuan Ming said.

"My lord, please forgive my frankness, but the power of the Moon Sect is too weak; without you, any sect could uproot us at will. Now does not seem to be the time for widespread preaching," Xu Che hesitated before expressing his view.

Last time Yuan Ming had him preach extensively, he felt it was inappropriate, yet he dared not speak directly.

"In the future, you must indeed be more cautious when you preach, and if you encounter any problems, pray and report to me immediately; I will find a way to handle it," Yuan Ming uttered affirmatively.

He insisted on expanding the preaching area as he had his own plans. He could not just abandon such a beneficial method to enhance Soul Cultivator's strength just because of some difficulties. Since they had provoked the Wu Yue Sect, a colossal entity, he indeed had to be more careful in his actions.

"Yes," Xu Che agreed.

"Also, do not make any more statues of the Nether Moon God; it makes it easy for others to criticize us, just like this time. From now on, when recruiting believers, just let them know what I look like," Yuan Ming spoke again.

Through his recent assessments, he had discovered a pattern in collecting Desire Power. The believers of the Moon Sect did not necessarily need to pray in front of a statue; as long as they knew his appearance, the Desire Power could be transmitted to him.

These statues of the Nether Moon God were sufficient to be seen once; there was no need to view them daily.

As for whether there were other patterns in collecting Desire Power, he was still uncertain.

"Yes, I will take care of it immediately," Xu Che said, bowing his head.

He hesitated for a moment, then his expression solidified, and he bowed deeply to Yuan Ming, "My lord, please implant the Soul Descent Technique rune inside my Divine Soul!"

"Do you know how overbearing the Soul Descent Technique rune is? Once implanted, you will have no secrets before me. I can easily monitor your every action and thought whenever I choose," Yuan Ming looked at Xu Che and said slowly.

"I am aware, but for the well-being of the Moon Sect, there can't be any issues here. Only the Soul Descent Technique rune can ensure that," Xu Che responded.

"Well, if that is the case, I will cast it on you once I am familiar with the Soul Descent Technique," Yuan Ming had been wanting to test the effects of the Soul Descent Technique on a believer and did not refuse.

Then, through identification by Xu Che, some of the Divine Envoys turned out to have been brought by Lu Da, and Yuan Ming took action and annihilated them.

The remaining individuals were mainly believers of the Nether Moon God; either their power was lacking, or their identities were not significant, their memories were not altered, and they had merely fallen under Lu Da's control through his Illusion Technique.

Yuan Ming, not wanting too many people to know his whereabouts, dispelled their illusions and concealed his presence.

When these people learned from Xu Che that it was Lord Nether Moon God who had descended to personally save them, they were exceedingly moved and thanked him endlessly.

It was with great difficulty that Xu Che managed to calm their emotions.

Thereafter, Xu Che told these people about what Lu Da had done and instructed them to deliver the elixirs to the believers' homes in various cities for treatment. He also ordered that they distribute the accumulated gold and silver to the common people.

These items were useless to Cultivators, but to the ordinary folk, they were undoubtedly the best "miracle."

A group of people, deeply grateful for the mercy of Lord Nether Moon God, thanked him repeatedly before leaving.

In this cave, besides them, there were over three hundred women Lu Da had collected from various cities, who were imprisoned.

Most of them had been tortured to a state less than human, and many had perished, forever remaining here.

After rescuing them, Yuan Ming did not force them into becoming believers out of gratitude, but erased their memories related to this place and sent them back.

At this moment, the Night Parade of Hundred Demons had entirely refined Lu Da into a Ghost Slave, and through a Soul Search on him, Yuan Ming learned much about the Wu Yue Sect.

The Jade Scroll that listed the Wu Yue Sect's strongholds contained truthful information.

Lu Da had collected information on the other strongholds because he was ordered by the Free Venerable, which involved a power struggle among several Venerables of the Wu Yue Sect.

In Lu Da's memory, Yuan Ming also unexpectedly learned the identity of the Heavenly Ghost Wanderer, which matched his previous speculation that the Heavenly Ghost Wanderer was indeed a subordinate of the Free Venerable.

The Heavenly Ghost Wanderer and Lu Da were both dispatched by the Free Venerable to the Black Wind Desert. Lu Da gathered Desire Power, while the Heavenly Ghost Wanderer was ordered to collect Soul Power at all costs, and the more, the better. This led to his mad act of slaughtering the entire Earth River City.

Yuan Ming frowned slightly. The Free Venerable cultivated the Great Freedom Heart Sutra, requiring Desire Power for his practice, so why did he desperately need to collect a vast amount of Soul Power?

"My lord, what are your plans next? Although we have destroyed this stronghold of the Wu Yue Sect, other strongholds in the Black Wind Desert still exist. I feel that if we want to preach here peacefully, we must eliminate all those strongholds," Xu Che approached and said.

Yuan Ming returned to his senses, a trace of surprise flashing in his eyes.

He had just been considering this matter and had already drafted a plan; unexpectedly, Xu Che had come to the same conclusion.

Aside from being capable in his duties, this person also had quite a far-reaching vision.

"Do not worry about this matter; I will arrange everything," Yuan Ming responded.

"Do you plan to destroy them one by one? With your strength, you certainly can, but this method is too time-consuming and somewhat risky," Xu Che said hesitantly.

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