Hearing Huo Tianci’s words, that voice, which was Mo Tianji, spoke immediately, "Isn’t it because I haven’t seen her for so many years, I got too excited? Right now, the most important thing is to quickly retrieve Jade Glaze. Jade Glaze can help you rapidly increase your strength. Your mentor, he has issues. If your power isn’t sufficient, I fear that in the end, you won’t even be able to protect yourself."
Upon hearing this, Huo Tianci couldn’t help but be stunned. "What do you mean?"
My mentor has issues?
Seeing that Huo Tianci hadn’t noticed, Mo Tianji scoffed lightly, "I wasn’t within you before, so I didn’t know, but after I regained consciousness inside your body, I discovered something. The Taoist skill he’s having you cultivate is a secret technique from the ancient Evil Path, used to control disciples. It’s just that many modern Taoist skills have been lost, so you’re unaware. If he really had your best interests at heart, would he let you cultivate that?"
Hearing this, Huo Tianci involuntarily clenched his fists.
Every now and then, the mentor would ask him how his cultivation of that Taoist skill was progressing, and he had been diligently practicing it over the years.
Could it be that there really was a problem with that Taoist skill?
"But why would my mentor do this?" After a moment, Huo Tianci couldn’t help but ask.
Upon hearing this, Mo Tianji let out a cold snort, "No one else could answer this for you, but as it happens, I know a little about it."
"This secret technique is one that some Taoists use to cultivate their own Body Seizing host bodies. I once encountered an old Taoist who intended to seize my body, but back then my Taoist skill was deep and profound, and I directly counter-killed him. Your mentor, I see he’s not young either; he must be around two hundred years old. I suspect that he is planning to seize your body. With your exceptional talent, which Evil Path practitioner wouldn’t be tempted?" said Mo Tianji.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, Huo Tianci replied with a cold tone, "So, you also really want to seize my body, don’t you?"
At this remark, Mo Tianji immediately said, "What you’re saying isn’t right. Your body is my body, how could this be considered Body Seizing? Moreover, I know many powerful magic techniques, all of which I can teach you!"
"You still haven’t told me how exactly you entered my body! Why didn’t I feel anything at all?" Huo Tianci was not at all enticed by the magic Mo Tianji mentioned.
Furthermore, Mo Tianji from history was said to be a very calm and self-restrained person, yet Huo Tianci felt that the Mo Tianji inside him exuded eeriness at every turn.
Hearing Huo Tianci’s words, Mo Tianji spoke in a mysterious tone, "When you opened that Beauty Painting of Qianxun, I entered your body, because you and I are originally one, and thus you did not detect any anomaly."
"So, you’ve been residing in that painting all along?" Huo Tianci realized suddenly.
"That’s right! And it was you... from the past who personally sealed me inside it," said Mo Tianji.
This statement made Huo Tianci feel quite dissonant, "What do you mean by ’you from the past’? Didn’t you say that we are originally one? If that’s the case, didn’t you seal yourself in the past?"
"Hahahaha, if that were so, then why do you think you were able to reincarnate in this world now? If you wish to know, I don’t mind telling you!"
"In those days, Mo Tianji, which is to say the you and I of that time, found that he could not transcend his emotional tribulations. Thus, he divided his soul into two, the negative part of me was sealed within the painting, while you, who inherited all of his virtues, went on to reincarnate!"