The so-called "devouring" is to snatch the opponent's life source and true element mana as the energy and raw materials to improve oneself.

The hard work paid off, and finally one day, Gu Xuan waited for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Tao Tao fought dozens of powerful demon beasts in the abyss, and although the demon beast was repelled by Tao Tao, it was also extremely seriously injured.

Gluttony struggled back to the lair, whining and wailing to lick his wounds.

Seeing this, Gu Xuan mustered up the courage to walk over, pretending to be gluttonous and bandaging, but he suddenly killed him.

Gluttony didn't expect that the human kid who had always been submissive would dare to attack him boldly.

But it was too late, and the sharp iron vertebrae clenched by Gu Xuan's hands had already pierced into its heart, and its vitality was frantically draining outward.

Finally, the powerful gluttonous let out a sorrowful cry that soared into the sky, as if regretting the coupling of his carelessness and timing, and it didn't take long for him to die unwillingly in front of this seemingly cowardly, but ruthless Terran boy.

Gu Xuan got the gluttonous Neidan and devoured it whole without hesitation.

He combined what he had learned and realized in the past ten years, as well as the pure energy in the inner pill, and successfully embarked on the path of cultivation and became the number one martial artist on the mainland.

Gu Xuan left the dark abyss of the evil beast alive and returned to the bright world of the human race.

He never mentioned to anyone what he had experienced in the ten years since he disappeared, but he continued to practice the exercises and concentrate on advancing on the path of cultivation.

Devouring, as its cultivation method, inevitably requires devouring various energy carriers.

From the very beginning, Gu Xuan devoured some demon beasts and treasures, but later found that his progress was slow, and it was difficult to meet his growing demand for power.

Just when he couldn't figure it out, he happened to kill a few bullies and bandits, and the ghost sent the god to perform the devouring technique, and actually absorbed all the life sources of several people.

He felt that his body was like a rain after a long drought, and his strength was growing rapidly, far surpassing everything else he had devoured before.

This appalling discovery is like a devil's box that cannot be closed once opened.

Gu Xuan finally couldn't resist the temptation, and attacked ordinary people one after another.

At the beginning, they were just some bullies and bandits, but later their nature changed, and they no longer deliberately found an excuse to eliminate evil when they killed people, as long as they needed to cultivate, they would not hesitate to kill them.

Of course, all this was done in extreme secrecy, and no one else found any clues.

However, when Gu Xuan's cultivation reached a certain level, he found that devouring ordinary people could no longer meet his needs.

He set his sights on the few disciples he had taken under his tutelage, who had already learned the basics of cultivation and had become low-level monks.

Sure enough, after Gu Xuan secretly devoured a few disciples, Xiu Wei made another breakthrough and verified the guess in his heart.

That is, the higher the Devouring Person's skill, the greater the improvement in his cultivation, and the more beneficial it is to the cultivation of the Devouring Technique!

So, in order to pursue the pinnacle of martial arts and immortality, the demon in his heart was completely released, and his desire was out of control, just like the gluttony of the year.

He established a wide range of sects on the rivers and lakes, recruited disciples on a large scale, and at the same time turned the devouring exercises into some side paths, and then taught them to his disciples and grandchildren for them to practice and attain enlightenment.

When these people's cultivation reaches a certain level, they will be secretly devoured by the ancient people in order to achieve their goal of improving their cultivation.

Countless years later, due to the seamless appearance of the hypocrisy of the ancient people, this great secret has never been exposed.

And his cultivation has also accumulated over time, from the initial martial artist cultivation to the later extremely high realm.

In the process, Gu Xuan developed a relationship with a female disciple and became a couple.

That female disciple is called Long You, and her supreme talent even surpasses that of Gu You.

Long You did not deeply practice the ancient exercises, but found another way and created a practice called the "Heavenly Demon Classic", thus creating the famous Netherworld Ghost Prison in later generations.

The couple had a pair of children, the son followed the father's surname Gu, and the daughter followed the mother's surname Long.

Later, Gu Xuan entered the Dao by devouring, cultivated to break into the imperial realm, and comprehended a Taoist technique called "Nine Turns of Longevity".

Specifically, the subtlety of it is that if you devour nine people who are equivalent to your own cultivation, you can break through the realm nine times and cultivate to a higher level.

Therefore, Gu Xuan was scheming, using the world's masters as "feed", and using the "Nine Turns of Longevity" to help him continue to break through.

It wasn't until many years later that the world was kept in the dark by the hypocrisy of the ancients, and they didn't know his true face, and thought that he had the world in mind, selflessly preaching and teaching, and even praised him as a martial god and was worshiped by the incense of ten thousand years.

However, when Gu Xuan's cultivation reached the peak of the Martial Emperor, he encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation.

Due to the extremely slow ascension of the world's realm, and the monks who have achieved a little over the years will be secretly devoured by the ancient gods, resulting in the final supply of their "gluttonous mouth" at all.

Just when the peak of the Ancient Martial Emperor was approaching, he pinned all his hopes on Long You.

At that time, Long You was comparable to Gu Xuan, and he was also a ninth-order martial emperor cultivator.

Judging from the situation at that time, even if Gu Xuan ruthlessly attacked Long You and used it as a furnace for cultivating the "Nine Turns of Longevity Technique", there was still more than half of it to make up for nine people, and in addition to this, no one in the world had cultivated to reach the peak of the Martial Emperor.

In other words, even if the ancient Xuan devoured the dragon you, it would not be able to break into the emperor realm, and it would still not be far from death.

However, the reason why Gu Xuan pinned her hopes on Long You was because of her self-created Heavenly Demon Skill, the highest meaning of which is called "Sacrifice"!

Specifically, it is to sacrifice oneself to heaven and earth and help the beneficiary break through the shackles of current cultivation, which is equivalent to a method of sacrificing oneself to fulfill others.

Gu Xuan knew very well that only when Long You was willing to sacrifice could he continue his longevity and make another breakthrough on the road of martial arts.

……

The fragments of the Martial God's memories came to an abrupt end when they were integrated here, or rather, a piece was missing, and there was no fragment of Long You's sacrifice for him.

Probably because the martial god was too sad and didn't rub that sad memory into the inheritance stone.

At the end of the memory fragment, the time node jumped directly to countless years later, and the ancient Xuan of the Martial Emperor realm came to the end of Shouyuan again.

In the projection, the ancient wind candle is in its old age, and the back is gloomy, as if there is no nostalgia for the world.

He slowly walked into the grave that he had dug for himself with his own hands, and lay down quietly.

The past, the grievances of the rivers and lakes, and the legends of a generation will eventually return to dust.

……

Qin Ye slowly withdrew his mind from the inheritance stone.

In order to read this huge memory that carried 10,000 years, even if he expanded his divine sense to the extreme and digested it as quickly as possible, it would take him more than half a month.

He had no doubts about the memories of the Martial God carried in the Inheritance Stone.

Because this is the unique property of the inheritance stone, only the true memory of the dying person can be rubbed into it.

It was precisely because of this unknown secret that Qin Ye was shocked.

It completely subverted Qin Ye's understanding of the Martial Dao Ancestor, and at the same time solved many questions in his heart.

The vast majority of the inheritance of martial arts in the world originated from ancient times, and the methods that seem to be full of flowers are actually derived from the devouring exercises.

Among them, the most representative is the Fusion Dao of the Heavenly Dao Sect and the Ruthless Dao of the Hehuan Sect, both of which are means to plunder the true mana of others and the origin of life for their own use.

Many of the most talented juniors have limited their own development due to their preconceived practice of the martial arts passed down from the martial gods.

According to the principles laid down by the Martial God, they are struggling to move forward on the path of cultivation, and it is difficult for them to achieve success in their lifetime, let alone surpass them in the Dao of the Martial God.

It is no wonder that for ten thousand years, only Qin Binghe and Ye Piaochen, the two did not cultivate the Dao of the Martial God, but entered the emperor realm with their own skills.

At this moment, Qin Ye felt a strong uneasiness in his heart.

Recalling the legend about the Martial God Mausoleum that circulated in the world, the ten people who entered the Martial God Mausoleum each time, the so-called nine people could ascend to the Tao, and one person broke into the emperor realm and walked out of the mausoleum, and soon after that, he would also break through the void and leave the continent.

Now it seems that even Gu Xuan himself did not reach the so-called divine realm before his death, so how can he guide future generations to surpass it?

Moreover, those legends are all from the words of the people who walked out of the Martial God Mausoleum in the past, and there is no other corroboration, let alone the so-called people who have attained the Tao and ascended to return to the mainland.

Then the authenticity of this matter is worth pondering.

In addition, what does the secret of immortality that the martial god realized before his death?

Suddenly, a fine light shot straight from the inheritance stone towards Qin Ye's head, and a huge amount of information once again soaked into his mind.

"At the beginning of my Taoist practice, I had a lot of gluttony, and at that time, I endured humiliation for ten years, and mistakenly devoured the Tao."

"In order to find the pinnacle of martial arts, he did not hesitate to kill his fellow clans, killed countless disciples, and planted the root of the troubled times."

"However, now the deadline is approaching, and I suddenly look back on the past, and my merits and demerits will be left to future generations to decide."

"If you are destined to come here, I should fulfill my promise, pass on the secret of nine transformations of immortality, and reveal the secret of immortality."

"Eleven people in Wang'er, come out of the mausoleum in the future, benefit the people of the world, and forgive my sins in life!"

This last word left by the martial god cannot be rejected and passed into the sea of knowledge that entered Qin Ye, which also includes the cultivation method of the "Nine Turns of Longevity" that the world dreams of.

The so-called "Nine Turns of Longevity" is to plunder other people's true yuan power and life origin for their own use through the domineering devouring Dao method.

Every time you devour a person who is equivalent to your own cultivation, you can be promoted to the Emperor Realm.

And so on, if you devour nine people, you can be promoted to the Nine Turns Emperor Realm, and then you will be able to cultivate to the realm of the real Martial Emperor.

After learning such a domineering and vicious method, Qin Ye could be regarded as having completely obtained the inheritance of the Martial God, and he should be happy in theory, but in fact he was more frightened.