Capricorn Palace, Main Hall.

"Aquarius…"

Watching Leon, who was clutching the white wings of a Thousand-Eyed Angel while exerting all his efforts to unleash the Capricorn Secret Technique, the Capricorn Director responsible for maintaining the [Heavenly Path] couldn't help but advise:

"Perhaps... we should hold off on learning this secret technique for now?"

"Aquarius, my previous judgment may have been a tad... well... a tad arbitrary. You might not be as suited to learning the [Abnormal Purification] secret technique from the Capricorn Palace as I thought."

"Of course, I'm not saying you're lacking in any way. As a genius comparable to the third-generation Superintendent, your talent in secret techniques and personal integrity are both impeccable, but secret techniques also require a bit of fate; sometimes, it's not just about having talent."

"How about this, if you really want to learn, I won't necessarily stop you, but this thing has a process, too. We don't have to master it all at once, right?"

"Aquarius? Are you listening to me?"

"Hmm?"

After successfully purifying the struggling Thousand-Eyed Angel, Leon wiped the sweat from his forehead and then took the Silence Beans out of his ears, turning around to ask somewhat confusedly:

"Capricorn, what did you say just now?"

"I was saying, we don't have to learn the secret technique all at once. We can do it later when you have some free time… um… are you saying you've purified another one?"

"I suppose… it counts?" 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Upon hearing the query from the Capricorn Director, Leon turned back to glance at the roaring Hundred-Eyed Demon, pinching its already bat-winged feathers, and then said uncertainly:

"When I continued to apply the [Abnormal Purification] secret technique on it, there was no new reaction. It's been purified completely, right? Hmm… just its appearance changed a bit."

"…"

A bit? This damn thing transformed its entire race!

Looking at the "Thousand-Eyed Angel" with four spiral beast horns on its head and six pairs of pitch-black bat wings growing from its back, screaming sharply at himself and Aquarius, the corners of the Capricorn Director's mouth couldn't help but twitch twice.

As Heaven Mountain's main divine beings, angels are divided into roughly nine groups. The angel brought in for Aquarius to practice was a pre-pollution "Hesi" angel among the nine groupings, possessing substantial strength.

This six-winged thousand-eyed alien angel represents supreme wisdom and a gaze penetrating sin. Though its appearance was slightly ferocious, turned into a mindless beast through pollution, it didn't lose the unique holy aura of divine beings.

(Approximate image, found online)

However, after Leon's determined "purification," the six-winged thousand-eyed Hesi angel successfully shed its holy "burden," transforming directly from an angel into a ferocious and horrifying demon, its holy aura not just considerably reduced but obliterated!

Is this really [Abnormal Purification]? Is this how the Capricorn Palace secret technique is used?

Looking at the "Thousand-Eyed Demon" Leon just conjured up, the Capricorn Director resisted the urge to howl, ultimately twitching his mouth while asking:

"So... what exactly have you purified this time?"

"Uh… I purified its split personality?"

Leon said somewhat sheepishly:

"When you first brought it, it spent a third of its time chanting hymns, a third uttering some bizarre somniloquies, and the remaining third muttering that whatever blasphemous words, changing constantly.

But now it's stopped saying those things, its condition… hmm… looks much more stable than before, shouldn't that also count as some form of purification?"

"…"

Indeed, after your purification, this Hesi angel's state is much more stable... stable enough to want to destroy everything it sees!

"Alright then…"

Somewhat unsure of what to say, the Capricorn Director uttered his shortest sentence in days, waving to send the "purified" Hesi angel back through the [Heavenly Path] with the white light beam returning it to Heaven Mountain.

"Capricorn."

Glancing at the departing Hesi angel via [Heavenly Path], Leon couldn't help but blink while proactively inquiring:

"Since that angel has already turned into a demon… um… a rather uniquely looking angel with particularly strong destructive tendencies, is it really okay to send it back to Heaven Mountain just like that?"

"No worries, there are only some polluted madmen left there now, no normal creatures. If it kills a few, it'd even be a relief for me."

Slightly shaking his head, the Capricorn Director explained with a complex expression:

"Originally, it was a deathless Land of Bliss; as long as Heaven Mountain itself isn't destroyed, any divine being that dies within it will be reborn in the pool atop Heaven Mountain, including the one you've… purified.

Generally, that's not an issue, but once the whole Heaven Mountain got polluted, the angels and divine beings reborn from the pool went mad, catching any rational creatures to throw into the pool, trying to create more companions, and couldn't be killed off at all.

Thus, the best solution at present is using the Capricorn Palace purification secret technique to 'purify' these crazy divine beings, wiping out all their powers, and once we accrue a sufficient number, kill off a batch in one go, exhausting the revival water from the pool atop Heaven Mountain.

Then I would seize the moment the pool dries up to enter Heaven Mountain for purification; over the past thirty years... um... forget it, not talking about it now, Aquarius, what exactly have you done with your secret technique?"

Glancing at the dozens of "Leon-crafted demons" stacked into a small hill in the Capricorn Palace main hall, while tossing these newly born demons back to Heaven Mountain as they roared and bellowed, the Capricorn Director inquired, struggling to maintain a composed demeanor:

"The angels you purified didn't temporarily escape the pollution to regain clarity, nor did they lose their power or had their 'abnormality' purified, instead all transformed from angels into demons, you… this… I don't get it."

"…"

What a coincidence, not only do you not understand, I don't either... But since the Capricorn Secret Technique emblem was secured earlier, learning this technique wasn't in vain.

Glancing at the recently acquired [Arcane Inheritor (Capricorn)] upon completely "purifying" a Thousand-Eyed Angel, Leon returned an equally helpless expression to the Capricorn Director, ambiguously responding:

"I'm not too sure myself, but I recall that what polluted Heaven Mountain should be the evil pus condensed at the deepest point of the Abyss, so these angels... hmm... perhaps I purified their angelic parts, hence causing this reverse outcome.

I'm just suggesting a possibility, honestly, I'm not certain about the actual situation."