Legend of the Great Sage Chapter 825 - Scripture of the Ghost King

Xiao An was the daughter of the Fierce King of Chu and the Dark Queen. She had great expectations placed on her from a young age, arduously practising the various methods of the Umbral Yin sect. She could freely read and view the cultivation methods and secret manuals that regular disciples could not come into contact with.

The Umbral Yin sect had a Scripture of the Ghost King, which was a secret method for ghost cultivators they always kept within the sect. It was similar to the Scripture of the Guardian King from the Chan Monastery of Deva-Nāga. Once someone reached the third heavenly tribulation with the Scripture of the Guardian King, they could conjure the avatar of a guardian king depending on the different direction they took, such as the Dauntless Guardian King, the Unraging Guardian King, the Guardian King of Raging Flames, the Unshakeable Guardian King, and so on.

After reaching the third heavenly tribulation, the Scripture of the Ghost King could produce Evil Eye Ghost Kings, Blood Drinking Ghost Kings, Plague Treading Ghost Kings, Poison Assimilating Ghost Kings, Soaring Body Ghost Kings, Thousand Eye Ghost Kings…

TL: The names for these Ghost Kings all come from Chapter 1 and 8 of the the Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva Pūrvapraṇidhāna Sūtra, which is one of the more popular scriptures in Chinese Buddhism.

The latter had a selection even more vast than the former. No matter what path the cultivator took when they were still alive, they could find a corresponding pathway once they became a ghost cultivator.

Xiao An had originally read through the cultivation method without paying much attention, but with how clever she was, she obviously had extraordinary memory. She said, “I’ll pass the Scripture of the Ghost King to you. With your cultivation, you can switch to the path of ghost cultivators very quickly and become a Poison Assimilating Ghost King. Perhaps your skill with poison might even surpass the past.”

“Thank you, ma’am!”

The Myriad Poison Ancestor rejoiced. He was subservient to Li Qingshan now, havin

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