In the beginning, cultivating the Daofate Heavenfiend Art was similar to cultivating the Gruegloom Daoseizing Art. The latter had required the actual heart of a Gruegloom to function as the foundation. With the former, the requirement was a nascent soul from another cultivator, one that had passed a heavenly tribulation and already had some heavenfate.7

That was the foundation of the Daofate Heavenfiend Art.1

And thus came the three pill bottles.1

The first bottle contained the headless corpse of a Gruegloom Nascent Soul cultivator. Master Seventh had spent a lot of time tracking that down for Xu Qing. After all, the Grueglooms were a rare species. It would function to augment Xu Qing’s Gruegloom abilities, and would enable him to extract the nascent souls from his enemies.12

The second bottle contained a blood-red vortex that pulsed with clear holiness. That was the marrow Master Seventh had extracted from the fish bone of the god. Because the god in Forbidden by the Immortal was now dead, it was masterless, and easy to work with. There was a unique way to use it. It had to be fused with Xu Qing’s heavenly dao nascent soul. And then, with the power of the heavenly dao, Xu Qing could wrest the heavenfate out of his enemy’s nascent souls.1

The third bottle contained 100,000 evil souls from Cruelmurk.7

Bai Xiaozhuo had used the three fish bones to lock onto the position of...0