After that eerie laugh, Lin Canglang finally began to speak. "The Supreme Lotus Seed is indeed a sacred relic of the evil dao. It defies the heavens and rewrites fate. Its power is truly terrifying, strong enough to help even a peak demon emperor like the Silver Wolf Demon Emperor break past his bottleneck and step into the realm of demon ruler!" He paused, a cold sneer forming at the corners of his mouth. "But do you really think I would give such a treasure to the Silver Wolf Demon Emperor for nothing?" He narrowed his eyes. "That Supreme Lotus Seed carries the resentment and malevolent qi of countless spirits who died by unnatural means. All that hatred condenses into a corpse fiend. Once the seed is refined, the corpse fiend implants itself deep within the sea of mind and forms a Gu Curse. Under normal circumstances, it remains dormant. But once I activate it using the Devil's Love-Forgetting Curse, the victim will slowly lose control of themselves and become my puppet." Lin Canglang grinned. His eyes gleamed with cruelty. "My original plan was to use the Supreme Lotus Seed to control a demon great emperor. I never expected things would turn out ." Suddenly, he broke into crazed laughter. "Who would have thought the seed would end up in Ling Feng's hands? Once he finishes refining it, it will only be a matter of time before he becomes my slave. He will be no better than a dog!" "He has ruined my plans again and again. He is my sworn enemy. But fate enjoys its little games. In the end, he will still belong to me. Hahaha!" Off to the side, Blood Sword Heavenly Lord burst into laughter. "So that's what happened. I understand now. Master, joining forces with you was clearly the right choice. Just thinking about turning Ling Feng into our pawn, watching him suffer while we toy with him, makes me feel extremely satisfied!" Lin Canglang slowly exhaled, calming himself. "No matter how heaven-defying that brat may be, he will not escape my grasp this time. Besides, I still have one last card. That card will awaken the full power of the corpse fiend." "Oh?" The Blood Sword Heavenly Lord smiled. "And what card is that?" Lin Canglang turned away, clasped his hands behind his back, and spoke coldly. "His master, Duanmu Qingshan!" It turned out that several months ago, Duanmu Qingshan had come to Nanjiang in search of his long-lost daughter. What started as a hopeful journey soon became a nightmare. By pure misfortune, he had fallen into Lin Canglang's hands. Lin Canglang's strength at that time far exceeded what it had once been. The result was inevitable. Duanmu Qingshan had been captured. At first, Lin Canglang hoped to obtain the sword manual Flower-Transposing Jade-Burying Sword. Rumor had it that the manual held clues to the ancient vaults of the Yi Hua Palace. But after thoroughly searching Duanmu Qingshan, Lin Canglang found nothing. He had even considered killing him right then and there. In the end, he chose not to. After all, what could be more satisfying than killing Ling Feng's master right in front of him? So he spared Duanmu Qingshan's life. With this card in hand, Lin Canglang believed he could bring Ling Feng completely under control. "What good is an old geezer?" Blood Sword Heavenly Lord sneered. "You and I are evil cultivators. We feel no attachment to such nonsense. Brotherhood, loyalty, master and disciple, all of that is disgusting. But..." Lin Canglang narrowed his eyes. "Those very emotions are Ling Feng's greatest weakness!" At that moment, Ling Feng had no idea that the Supreme Lotus Seed carried a hidden curse, or that his master had already fallen into Lin Canglang's hands. With the help of the Supreme Lotus Seed, he had just broken through the fifth level of the Spiritual Element Realm and entered the sixth! It had only been two or three months since he first entered the Spiritual Element Realm, yet his progress was so fast that even the most gifted of geniuses would be left speechless. Feeling the surging power within him, Ling Feng tilted his head back and let out a long roar. This risk had paid off. "Ling Feng, stop refining the Supreme Lotus Seed!" Just as he prepared to push even further, Despicable Donkey's voice rang out in his mind. Ling Feng looked puzzled. If not for Despicable Donkey's help, he would never have survived the violent flood of energy. Refining the Supreme Lotus Seed on his own would likely have caused his body to explode. "This divine beast senses something strange. I'm not sure what it is, but something feels off." Despicable Donkey frowned deeply. His tone was unusually serious. "This divine beast is highly sensitive to energy changes. The Supreme Lotus Seed is clearly a pure yang item. It should be completely incompatible with the evil dao. But there's something this divine beast can't identify hidden inside that pure yang energy. While you refine it, a subtle presence is forming in your sea of mind. This divine beast can't explain it, but it's leaving behind strange marks." "This divine beast can't even see what those marks truly are." Ling Feng frowned. He closed his eyes and sent his awareness inward. Sure enough, deep within his sea of mind, he saw the strange marks Despicable Donkey had described. There were not just one or two. There were more than a hundred. Despicable Donkey had only absorbed a small portion of the seed's energy, so his marks were far fewer. Ling Feng, on the other hand, had used the seed's power to break through to the sixth level, so it made sense that he had accumulated far more. He tried to expel the marks, but they drifted like duckweed in a pond, always slipping away from his grasp. Oddly enough, they didn't seem to do anything. There was no movement, no reaction, no sign of danger. "Probably nothing serious," Ling Feng muttered as he rubbed his nose. Still, anything that appeared in his sea of mind could not be taken lightly. Especially since the Supreme Lotus Seed had come from the Blood God Cult. If danger lurked anywhere, it would be here. After some thought, Ling Feng stopped the refining process. He chose to store the remaining energy in his body. If he used Chaotic Rebirth again in the future and his cultivation dropped, the stored energy could help him break through again. It was a reliable fallback. As for the mysterious marks, he dared not take them lightly. He immediately awakened the spiritual thoughts left behind in his sea of mind by the Tianbai Emperor's spiritual manifestation. "Senior, I need your guidance!" Tianbai Emperor's spiritual manifestation stirred slightly. It looked at Ling Feng and replied in a flat voice. To preserve its awareness, the Tianbai Emperor had not left much personality in this manifestation. Its tone was cold and distant. "I want you to examine the strange marks that have appeared in my sea of mind," Ling Feng said. His voice was calm, but his eyes were serious.