Once the Duoluo Sense among the Five Demonic Senses of the Heavenly Demon is mastered, one can “change the nature of qi at will; annihilate and recreate cultivation.” One’s true qi can not only transform its properties at will, but even allow one’s power to shift freely between existence and nonexistence. Once the Dilu Sense is mastered, not only can it “capture and manipulate souls,” but it can even “shift consciousness and alter intent,” tampering with one’s own memories.

Since the founding patriarch Mr. Hart established the Tianxin Sect, over several centuries, only two people have ever mastered the Five Demonic Senses.

One was Mr. Hart himself, who mastered the Mana Sense, enabling him to “communicate between yin and yang; reverse life and death”!

The other was Mr. Hart’s fourth disciple, Albert Foster, who was also Richard King’s grandmaster. He mastered the Boyi Sense, which allowed him to “discern all things; disassemble the elements.”

Richard King was the third genius in the history of the Tianxin Sect to master the Demonic Senses, and he even surpassed the two patriarchs, becoming the first disciple in the sect to master two of the Demonic Senses.

Richard King mastered both the Duoluo and Dilu Senses of the Five Demonic Senses. The entire Tianxin Sect was overjoyed, and after several days of secret discussion among the elders, they fabricated an identity for him and sent him into the Emei Sect, hoping to steal the Emei Sect’s superior Daoist arts.

Therefore, Richard King was not at the Tianxin Sect at this moment, but at the Five Spirits Immortal Abode of the Emei Sect.

The identity forged for him by the Tianxin Sect was that of a young master from an official’s family, named Jason Turner.

Before the age of ten, this young master Jason Turner wanted for nothing. Each day, apart from listening to his teacher’s lessons at school and preparing for the imperial exams, he had no other worries.

At the age of ten, Jason Turner’s father suddenly fell gravely ill and passed away. His stepmother no longer cared for him, constantly finding fault and scolding him, beating him every three days, and only letting him eat three or four meals every five days—meals fit for pigs and dogs. He lived a life “worse than death, like a beast.”

Jason Turner deeply felt that he might not survive to adulthood if things continued this way, so he escaped from home when his stepmother wasn’t paying attention.

Being so young, this young master Jason Turner forgot to steal any silver when he fled. He had nothing to his name and no skills besides reading, so he had no choice but to become a little beggar, muddling through for several months.

Until one day, he met a Daoist priest who called himself Mr. Smoke, saying that Jason Turner had good potential and could learn the Dao from him.

This young master Jason Turner, eager to fill his belly, was naturally happy to take a master, and thus became a little Daoist under his new teacher Mr. Smoke.

Jason Turner’s master Mr. Smoke had quite a background—he was a registered disciple of the Tianxin Sect.

The Tianxin Sect wanted to send Richard King into the Emei Sect, so they approached Mr. Smoke, instructing him to kill Jason Turner and replace him with Richard King. As a reward, they taught Mr. Smoke a harmful technique that required extracting living souls to refine demonic arts.

Mr. Smoke, unaware of the truth, thought he had gained the sect’s favor. Misled by the Tianxin Sect, he went out to capture boys and girls, and ended up kidnapping a newly initiated female disciple of the Emei Sect. This provoked the Emei elders, who came to their door, beheaded him on the spot with a flying sword, and used thunder magic to obliterate his soul.

Richard King and another disciple of Mr. Smoke were both fairly obedient and dared not resist the righteous immortals. They immediately knelt and tearfully pleaded to the Emei sword immortals, explaining that they too had been kidnapped and did not truly harbor evil intentions, nor did they willingly follow such a wicked master or learn harmful arts.

The Emei Sect, being a righteous sect, did not kill the innocent recklessly. After questioning the two about their identities and realizing they could not be sent home, the elders decided to bring them to Mount Emei for the time being.

The Tianxin Sect relied on the Duoluo Sense to alter true qi and conceal Richard King’s demonic cultivation, and on the Dilu Sense to tamper with memories, so they did not fear soul-searching spells. If the Emei elders were careless, this young disciple could easily slip by. If discovered, losing a single disciple was no great loss, and in any case, the demonic sects cared little for human life.

When Richard King was brought into the Five Spirits Immortal Abode, the Return Immortal Mirror hanging high outside the gate suddenly emitted a hundred-zhang beam of golden light, illuminating him completely.

The Return Immortal Mirror was a rare treasure of the Immortal Abode, the Emei Sect’s foremost protective artifact, with boundless mystical uses. It could not only detect the presence of demonic qi, but also reveal past and future, previous and current lives. However, activating this rare treasure consumed immense magical power, so the Emei elders rarely used it.

At that moment, Richard King felt a chill in his heart. Although the Tianxin Sect’s “Five Senses Demonic Scroll” was wondrous and could withstand scrutiny and even the Emei elders’ soul-searching spells, it absolutely could not withstand a rare treasure like the Return Immortal Mirror.

Richard King thought he was doomed, but somehow, as the golden light of the Return Immortal Mirror shone upon him, a pearl appeared in his palm, manifesting endless illusions and actually blocking the great power of the Return Immortal Mirror, revealing only Jason Turner’s past.

The Emei elders, seeing that he truly came from a clean background and had a tragic life, felt compassion for him and decided to temporarily take him and the other disciple of Mr. Smoke in.

Although Richard King had already lived in the Five Spirits Immortal Abode for more than ten days, every time he recalled that moment, he couldn’t help but break out in a cold sweat, even waking up from nightmares. If his identity were exposed, he would never escape being beheaded by the Emei sword immortals, and might even have his soul shattered, losing any chance of reincarnation.

The appearance of the Yantian Pearl was utterly inexplicable!