The loft looked unassuming from the outside, but inside it radiated brilliant light.

The space wasn't large — enough for five or six people standing shoulder to shoulder.

On both sides, red-wood shelves held neatly arranged jade slips in various sizes, and the light was spilling out from the slips themselves.

The divine spirit, arms around his skeleton, stood behind Shen Yi and explained, "The ones on the right are the Golden Body methods. Everything on the left concerns Mixed Origin cultivators."

This was clearly where Great Qian kept all of its high-realm techniques.

Not only were there few of them.

They'd gone and stored the Mixed Origin techniques in the same place as the Golden Body methods, which belonged to the Spirit-Transformation realm above them... what Jiang Qiulan had said at the time might well have been true — the War Temple genuinely didn't have a mastered path for the path infant's route to Spirit-Transformation.

Shen Yi glanced across the shelves.

The right side held exactly twenty-three jade slips, no more and no less — but quite a few of them were damaged, the smooth jade surfaces mottled with what looked disturbingly like old bloodstains.

"They were brought back from outside by Spirit-Transformation cultivators across the generations. A bit of damage is perfectly normal."

Senior Brother Zhu carefully set the skeleton aside in a corner, adjusted the skull so it sat straight, then turned and picked up one of the slips, holding it out to Shen Yi. "Twenty-three Golden Body methods in total. Only thirteen are complete."

"Twelve of them can condense a three-zhang golden dharma form."

"Only the Arhat Golden Body Method produces a six-zhang golden form."

Shen Yi took the slip and pressed his spiritual sense into it.

A new line appeared on his panel at once.

【Spirit-Transformation · Red-Faced Lion-Camel Dharma Form: Not Yet Begun】

Without rushing to draw on any lifespan, Shen Yi closed the panel and asked sincerely, "The larger the form, the stronger?"

He'd been through enough battles by now to notice that the most powerful demons weren't necessarily the biggest — Lady…