Zhang Bin sat cross-legged within the Teleportation Array, not cultivating the third layer of the Tyrant Gold Divine Skill.

Because to truly succeed in cultivation, he must go to the Dragon Palace for training.

However, he had just come out of the Dragon Palace, and his body still stored a large amount of Dragon Qi, which required time to be fully absorbed and refined.

Moreover, there was no time for cultivation now.

He had to start impersonating Snake Changsheng.

He was meticulously organizing Snake Tianxia's memories.

Although the memories obtained were incomplete, they were far more complete than Snake Chun's memories.

It turns out, most of the Elders of Youming Sect are not living ghosts of this era but ghosts from three million years ago.

Three million years ago, a very brief civilization appeared on Earth—the Serpent Clan Civilization.

The Serpent Clan, of course, were also humans, but they evolved not from ape-like humanoids, but from snakes.

With a history of only about three thousand years, it was completely destroyed.

Because the sun in the sky suddenly turned black, emitting very weak light.

Earth then entered a great ice age period.

Even deep underground turned into Mysterious Ice, and Earth became a terrifying ice ball.

All humans perished.

Strictly speaking, the bodies of almost all humans were killed by the terrifying low temperatures.

Some cultivators and extremely powerful superpower users, however, their souls did not die.

At the time, the most powerful cultivator was You Jiuxuan, who cultivated to Integration Realm Complete Perfection.

Only he could resist the terrifying low temperatures; his body did not die.

He delved deep underground, hoping to find a place of refuge.

In the end, he really found this miraculous Cave Heaven.

At that time, this Cave Heaven had no life, enveloped in darkness, but there was a Bronze City from remote antiquity.

He hung the sun and moon he had cultivated in the sky.

Brought light to Cave Heaven.

Then, he discovered the secret of this Cave Heaven, a locked tower with space inside, even containing many monsters and Heavenly Earth Elixirs.

He found a way to extract many plants and Heavenly Earth Elixirs, planting them within the Cave Heaven.

Through his transformation, it became a beautiful Cave Heaven.

Became a sacred place for cultivation.

Afterward, he brought all the souls and soul bodies into this world.

Let the ghosts continue to live wonderfully in this world.

Moreover, he named this Cave Heaven Youming.

However, afterward, a terrifying event occurred, and every hundred years, ghosts had to endure Heavenly Tribulations.

Many ghosts were killed by Heavenly Tribulations.

You Jiuxuan then started working on countermeasures, based on the half part of the Heavenly Demon Technique obtained from Bronze City and some special cultivation techniques and heritages, he created the Soul Immortal Divine Technique, and even refined a magical Bronze Coffin, where souls could hide inside to avoid Heavenly Tribulations.

He wanted to ascend to the Immortal Realm but couldn't break through to Ascension Realm.

Ultimately, You Jiuxuan's body died completely.

But his soul lived on, always hiding in the coffin, waiting for Earth's ice age to pass.

About two million years later, Earth's ice age ended, and Earth saw the emergence of new intelligent life. Ancestor Youming created a Hundred Tribulations Divine Skill to find sacrificial ghosts, and also created many secret techniques for Soul Seizing. Five thousand years ago, he finally acquired a supreme genius cauldron and cultivated to the Ascension Realm Late Stage. Unfortunately, when he underwent the Ascension Heavenly Tribulation at Peak Realm, he was not successful, his body was destroyed by the tribulation, once again becoming a living ghost. Since then, he has been waiting, waiting for the most talented cauldron.

He has thirty years left before his century Heavenly Tribulation.

So even if he leaves the coffin, he won't immediately face a Heavenly Tribulation.

However, he is terrifyingly powerful.

And in these five thousand years, some living ghosts have also obtained cauldrons, producing some descendants.

Overall, not many, because finding cauldrons with the same attributes and genius is truly too difficult.

So the powerful living ghosts hide in coffins.

Because their Heavenly Tribulations cannot be overcome by sacrificial ghosts.

Only those very weak living ghosts can come out to operate. Their task is to search the surface world for geniuses. Lure them in to become sacrificial ghosts or cauldrons...

Over thousands of years, of course, there have been many uprisings.

All were geniuses who realized the truth and began to resist.

But, of course, they didn't cause any ripples.

Ancestor Youming, with just a few breaths, wiped out all the rebels.

It was like crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood.

Having read nearly everything, Zhang Bin was secretly shocked, realizing the Youming Sect is essentially a remnant power of a previous civilization. Their strength is indeed terrifying. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

To destroy it, it won't be easy.

Just the living ghost Ancestor Youming alone, getting a body would cultivate to the Peak of Ascension Realm, just a sliver away from Great Perfection, and just a fine line from ascending to the Immortal Realm. This is an incredibly terrifying enemy.

What surprised Zhang Bin even more was that the Bronze City contained half of the Heavenly Demon Technique.

Could it be that the Bronze City has some connection with the Age of Golden Civilization?

However, the Bronze City predates the Golden Civilization, possibly, the Heavenly Demon Technique from the Golden Civilization originated from the Bronze Civilization.

"I must obtain this half of the Heavenly Demon Technique and study it thoroughly."

Zhang Bin happily shouted in his heart.

Since the Soul Immortal Divine Technique derives from the Heavenly Demon Technique, Zhang Bin felt much more at ease cultivating it.

Because it truly is a miraculous cultivation technique, the cultivators of the Golden Civilization have already thoroughly proven it.

The Heavenly Demon Technique and Tyrant Gold Celestial Technique are two of the most miraculous cultivation techniques of the Golden Civilization.

During the Age of Golden Civilization, some peerless geniuses cultivated one of these techniques and ascended to the Immortal Realm.

Zhang Bin pondered for a long time, even consulting with Tutu for a long time.

Only then did he formulate his future plan.

Without any hesitation, he activated the Teleportation Array.

With a flash of white light, he disappeared without a trace.

Almost simultaneously, the Teleportation Array in the luxurious cave mansion of the Youming Sect Master also lit up with radiant white light.

Then, Zhang Bin appeared like a ghostly spirit.

"Welcome, Vice Sect Leader."

"Congratulations, Vice Sect Leader."

"..."

Over twenty Elders of the Youming Sect appeared here, respectfully shouting in unison.

Even their faces were beaming with joy.

"Gahaha... I'm not your Snake Changsheng, but the real Zhang Bin. In the future, I'll annihilate you all," Zhang Bin chuckled sinisterly in his heart and walked out of the Teleportation Array with pride.

His soul had grown so much stronger, and his spiritual power had soared.

No longer worried about having his thoughts read by others.

Even if You Jiuxuan used his mind-reading ability, he might not be able to read them.

Moreover, there was no You Jiuxuan coffin here in the Teleportation Array area.

"Everyone, congratulations. Come, let's go visit the Sect Master."

Zhang Bin said with a smiling demeanor, then led all the Elders to the hall where You Jiuxuan's coffin was placed.

"Subordinate Snake Changsheng greets the Sect Master."

Zhang Bin saluted the coffin respectfully.

"Changsheng, you were too hasty, acting too quickly. Didn't I mention before that Zhang Bin is also someone I am evaluating?" An icy voice echoed from the coffin, clearly full of anger.