The Dharma Transmission Hall was a very magnificent building.
It didn't seem to have such tight security as one might imagine, with only a few sect disciples inspecting at the entrance.
They didn't even ask much upon Zheng Yi's arrival.
They only asked Zheng Yi to show his Inner Sect Token.
The sect disciple used his token to collide with Zheng Yi's token, transmitting some special information, completing the exchange and allowing Zheng Yi to enter directly.
The entire Dharma Transmission Hall appeared to have wide access, but only Zheng Yi knew.
It didn't seem to have much scrutiny, but as he approached the Dharma Transmission Hall, his Lifebound Spiritual Artifact, the Soul-Catching Banner, trembled slightly.
This expanded Zheng Yi's perception and Divine Thought several levels, and suddenly, he felt a cold wind blow from his back to his ribs.
He could faintly feel multiple auras simultaneously locking onto his body.
If he made any extraordinary move, it would be enough to tear him to pieces.
Those auras were exceedingly subtle, but after he presented his Inner Sect Token as required and the handover was complete, the guardian immediately allowed him entry, and those auras vanished.
Clearly, the Dharma Transmission Hall appeared to be just a regular grand hall without much guard, but in fact, it was loose on the outside and tight on the inside.
Within it, concealed exceptional powers.
Even when the Soul Catching Sect had a great battle with the Hundred Beasts Sect, with many of the high-level combat forces involved, the defense strength of the Dharma Transmission Hall did not slacken by a bit, and may even have been strengthened.
However, Zheng Yi understood in his heart.
This kind of arrangement was actually logical.
After all, unlike other places, the Dharma Transmission Hall is crucial to the sect's inheritance, profoundly significant, and having this level of arrangement is normal.
If instead people could come and go freely, Zheng Yi would suspect that he had come to a fake Soul Catching Sect.
Moreover, this defense strength was deeply rooted, always hidden in the shadows, making it the most terrifying.
It's like a venomous snake hiding in a cold corner; if anyone underestimates the depth of the Soul Catching Sect's pool, the next moment they would learn what is meant by the sky collapsing and the earth shattering, what is meant by the thunderous might.
If it weren't for the reminder from his Lifebound Spiritual Artifact, the Soul-Catching Banner, Zheng Yi would essentially be blind and could never comprehend the secrets and arrangements within.
Don't underestimate the Soul-Catching Banner within him.
Though it's just a standardized product crafted by the Soul Catching Sect for ordinary Outer Disciples, it has all the necessary functions.
Most importantly, Zheng Yi spent great effort and refined forty-nine Ghost Soldiers and Fierce Ghosts from the Doomsday World!
Among them, there is even a Blood Evil quality red-clothed Fierce Ghost, which Zheng Yi refined into the main soul of the Soul-Catching Banner.
If refined with ordinary living Life Souls, it would take at least four or five hundred lives to create the Ghost Soldiers and Fierce Ghosts within this novice Soul-Catching Banner.
Even slaying enemy cultivators, such a Soul-Catching Banner would require fifty Divine Souls from cultivators of the same tier.
For ordinary junior cultivators, not to mention whether they could accomplish this, it would probably be an extremely difficult task.
Furthermore, among them hides a Blood Evil quality red-clothed Fierce Ghost as the main soul.
The birth of Fierce Ghost quality, like the Spirit Root in cultivation, relies on heavenly blessings.
It's not something one can refine just by capturing the Divine Souls of one or two cultivators.
Additionally, Zheng Yi has refined the Soul-Catching Banner into his Lifebound Spiritual Artifact.
It can be said that they are connected in mind and Divine Soul.
Only then can he leverage the power of the artifact to enhance his perception and detect some of the secret arrangements within the Dharma Transmission Hall.
Of course, although his heart was shaken, Zheng Yi appeared outwardly as if he knew nothing.
Showing no unusual behavior, without any reaction, he calmly walked inside.
They were all seasoned performers, and he was well-versed in such situations.
With his mere Qi Cultivation Fourth Layer cultivation in this Demon Dao Sect, displaying strong perception or other special abilities would be akin to making himself a target, which is definitely harmful and not beneficial.
Though this three-story building looks small from the outside, it has a Grotto Heaven within, exceedingly vast.
According to the directions given by the guarding senior brother earlier, this Dharma Transmission Hall is the sect's focal point, the core inheritance site.
Inside here, it holds nearly all the various cultivation techniques and secret techniques collected by the Soul Catching Sect over the three to four hundred years since its founding.
The sources vary, including those transmitted by the Ancestral Master, collected by the sect's high-level members over generations, and many sect disciples have contributed cultivation techniques to exchange for the sect's contribution points.
Moreover, a portion was seized during sect wars from other sects, not only from other Demon Dao sects but also during the Righteous Demon wars, various cultivation techniques were pillaged from righteous cultivation sects.
The cultivation techniques passed down by the righteous sects are profound, tranquil, and deep-rooted, but the flaw is that cultivation speed is quite slow, and the time for foundation building and nurturing is lengthy.
Whereas, the techniques of the Demon Sect emphasize speed, rapid cultivation, known for their eeriness.
Yet, simultaneously, they have shallow foundations, prone to deviation, losing the right path, or even directly falling into the evil path.
Both types of techniques have their advantages and specialties; it can't be said which truly leads to the Great Path to Heaven.
In the immortal history of the Great Yi City Immortal Realm spanning hundreds of millions of years, there have been Immortal Dao Great Powers capable of creating miracles and overturning rivers and seas, as well as Demon Top Cultivators who, with one hand, could shroud the sky in Demon Flames eternally.
Both paths lead to the Path to Heaven; it's about how you choose and which suits you more.
However, in Righteous Sect, if one cultivates Demon Dao techniques, it is the taboo of taboos.
At best, the Immortal Foundation is abolished; at worst, immediate execution. Immortal rules are harsh, not to be trifled with.
In the Demon Cultivation Sect, there is no such restriction.
Demon Dao Cultivators inherently resist constraints, follow their whims, and cultivate by devouring heaven and earth.
If there were severe restrictions on cultivation techniques, it wouldn't align with the essence of Demon Dao; who would practice demon cultivation then?
Thus, Demon Dao Cultivators occasionally knowing one or two righteous ultimate skills isn't very surprising.
But it only counts as superficial knowledge, far from mastery.
Essentially, they primarily focus on magical and ever-changing Demon Dao techniques!
After stepping into the Dharma Transmission Hall, Zheng Yi didn't rush to find cultivation techniques but leisurely browsed through the catalog of cultivation techniques and secret techniques on the first floor of the Dharma Transmission Hall.
Strolling and stopping, after several hours spent, he ultimately chose the follow-up cultivation technique of the "Black Evil Technique," ranging from the Qi Cultivation Stage to the Foundation Establishment Stage.
As an Inner Sect Disciple, he was permitted to select three cultivation techniques from the sect's Dharma Transmission Hall.
His second choice wasn't a cultivation technique but the subsequent refining method for the Soul-Catching Banner.
Given that in the Doomsday World, the quality and quantity of Resentful Ghosts and Fierce Ghosts are exceptionally high, in a short time, the Soul-Catching Banner granted to Outer Disciples by the sect, under Zheng Yi's extraordinary efforts, has reached its limit.