A great fortune?
I faintly smiled. This kind of empty promise didn't attract me, but I was still a little happy.
The Celestial Master's Sun God was very mysterious. The Death Scripture had briefly mentioned that the Sun God had great power.
However, the old man said that he had lost his physical body and power, and that he didn't have any power.
These two completely different statements made me not know which one to believe. Thus, my previous refusal was more or less a test.
No matter what, the illusory old man Yan Nantian had been hiding here all this time, struggling at death's door. So, he definitely wanted to leave. If he still had the strength, and I didn't agree, he would definitely attack me.
But now, not only did he not attack me, he even begged me.
My heart calmed down. This Sun God really had lost his power!
We were strangers that met by chance, so it was impossible for me to trust a Celestial Master's Sun God. However, if this Celestial Master's Sun God didn't have any power, then there was no harm in trusting him.
Although I had searched Wei Sanpeng's soul, I knew too little about the Corpse Sect. With the help of this Celestial Master's Sun God, it would definitely save me a lot of trouble.
With this thought, I nodded and agreed.
Yan Nantian was overjoyed. He even cupped his hands in front of me and solemnly said, "Little friend, thank you for your help. If I can smoothly escape this time, I will return and restore my body. I will definitely reward you generously!"
I didn't care about the reward, but I was surprised when he said that he would restore his body. I quickly asked, "After the body is destroyed, can it be restored?"
"Naturally, it can't be restored." Yan Nantian smiled and said, "However, the Corpse Sect has a secret technique that can reconstruct the body."
Reconstructing the body … I had only heard of Daoist Master Tai Yi in the legends. He used lotus roots as bones and lotus leaves as muscles to reconstruct Nezha's body.
Could it be that the power of the Celestial Master realm could reach the level of legends?
I was stunned for a long time. After asking Yan Nantian, he shook his head with a strange expression and said, "Of course it's not that magical. The so-called reconstructing the body is nothing more than finding another body."
"Find another body?" My expression turned cold. "Could it be that you are talking about taking over another body?"
It was rumored that after some mountain spirits cultivated to the Yin Spirit Realm, their souls could leave their bodies and search for humans. After devouring the human's three souls, they could live in the human's body and control the human's body. It was called "Transfiguration". It meant that they had already taken human form and from then on, they would start to consider themselves as humans.
This was possession.
This was because it was the act of mountain spirits and wild monsters killing humans, using their vulgar bodies to try and impersonate the noble bodies of humans. Therefore, in the world of metaphysics, possession was an evil technique that everyone hated. Anyone who heard of it would be agitated.
Yan Nantian hastily waved his hand at me and said, "Little friend, please don't misunderstand. What I'm talking about is reconstructing the body. Although it's similar to stealing someone's body, it's fundamentally different.
You should know that with the three souls of the Yang, Shen, and Yang, there is no need to kill and possess. You only need to find a suitable corpse and gradually refine it into your own body. "
My furrowed brows gradually relaxed. According to what he had said, the Yang Spirit's possession wasn't too evil. After all, it only needed a corpse. It wasn't like the mountain spirits and wild monsters that needed to kill someone to possess a body.
It was just that when mountain spirits and wild monsters possessed a body, they only needed to take control of the body.
If a person wanted to possess a body, they not only needed to control the body, but they also needed to fuse their soul with the body. This was many times more difficult than mountain spirits and wild monsters. What kind of secret technique did the Corpse Sect have to do this?
Without waiting for me to speak, Yan Nantian continued, "The secret of the Corpse Sect that I promised to tell little friend is also related to possession."
It's related to possession?
I was a bit interested and asked him, "What is this secret?"
Yan Nantian's face revealed a trace of resentment, but he didn't directly say it. Instead, he asked me, "Since little friend was able to sneak into the Corpse Sect, you must have solved the corpse puppet problem.
Did little friend directly refine the corpse puppet or did you use some other method to replace it? "
This old man was quite clever, so I naturally couldn't tell him about Tong Tong. I just nodded and said, "I have refined the corpse puppet and am waiting outside the Soul Devouring Cave."
Yan Nantian nodded gloomily. "The secret of the Corpse Sect is in the corpse puppet.
Since little friend has refined the corpse puppet, I don't know if you have any doubts about it, but the corpse puppet of the Corpse Sect is a bit too obedient. "
Too obedient?
Isn't being obedient a good thing?
I slightly frowned as I didn't understand what he meant.
Yan Nantian saw that I didn't understand, so he explained again, "Zombies are inanimate objects. Although they have various abilities, they don't have three souls, so they don't have any intelligence. They should be stupid and stubborn. Although they can be forcibly controlled by a formation, it's impossible for them to be able to control them as if they were an arm.
What's more, there are some disciples of the Corpse Sect that can control corpses that are several realms higher than their own.
Little friend, don't you think this is a bit inconceivable? "
Now I understood. Earlier, I was quite surprised by the Corpse Sect's corpse control technique and felt that it was a miraculous technique. But now that I heard Yan Nantian's words, it seemed that there was some hidden secret.
After pondering for a bit, I nodded and said, "It is indeed a bit inconceivable. If this corpse control technique is really that miraculous, then the Corpse Sect can use the power of the entire sect to kill a Heaven's Teacher. Then, after refining the Heaven's Teacher's corpse, they can give it to their disciples. This way, the Corpse Sect will have an additional Heaven's Teacher level expert. Over time, I fear that there will be no power in this world that can contend against the Corpse Sect."
Yan Nantian was stunned for a moment before he praised me, "What a smart youth!"
After saying that, he continued with some emotion, "You can think of the question, but the vast majority of people can't. They will only be blinded by this cultivation technique … This includes me!"
Afterwards, Yan Nantian told me the story of how he cultivated the Corpse Sect's cultivation technique and how he was eventually killed by the Corpse Sect. The secret of the Corpse Sect was in his story.
Yan Nantian was the same as Wei Sanpeng. He had also lived in the Corpse Sect since he was young. Moreover, his talent was even stronger. At the age of fifteen, he was searching for dragons, at the age of twenty, at the age of thirty, at the age of thirty, and at the age of fifty, he had advanced to the Heaven's Teacher realm!
In the Corpse Sect, although there was only one chance to choose a corpse puppet, it needed to be refined twice. The first time was when the corpse puppet was first refined and the second time was when one advanced to the Heaven's Teacher realm.
When Yan Nantian advanced to the Heaven's Teacher realm and refined the corpse puppet, he discovered the hidden secret of the corpse puppet.
According to him, although the Corpse Sect's corpse control technique was miraculous, the reason wasn't because of the cultivation technique, but because of the corpses themselves.
This was because the corpses themselves had intelligence!
When the Corpse Sect refined the corpse puppets, the complex refining formation wasn't a corpse control formation, but a formation to activate the intelligence of the corpses!
It was because the corpse puppets themselves had intelligence that they could take the initiative to cooperate and achieve the effect of being able to control the corpse puppets.
The so-called Heaven's Teacher corpse puppets following the Dragon Seeking Realm corpse puppets was only because the Heaven's Teacher corpse puppets had intelligence and was willing to follow them. It had nothing to do with the Corpse Sect's cultivation technique.
As for why the Heaven's Teacher corpse puppets were willing to follow the Dragon Seeking Realm corpse puppets, it was because of what Yan Nantian said about possession.
In the Corpse Sect, the corpse puppets of the disciples were all in the corpse storage hall and were chosen by the corpses themselves.
Among them, there were some corpses that were found from all over the country like Wei Sanpeng. These were the most common corpses that were given to the most common disciples.
As for the truly powerful corpses, they were all bestowed by the sect.
For example, the corpse puppets of the Dragon Seeking Realm cultivator with the Heaven's Teacher corpse puppets were bestowed by the sect.
The reason why they were bestowed with powerful corpses was very simple: it was because of their powerful talent.
This was very normal. Any sect would bestow benefits to their talented disciples.
However, Yan Nantian said that the Corpse Sect didn't bestow benefits, but poison.
This was because the corpses bestowed by the Corpse Sect were the corpses of Heaven's Teachers who had reached the end of their lives.
Cultivation was a battle against the heavens. It often required a long period of accumulation in order to reach a higher realm.
Many people didn't have that long of a lifespan. Ordinary people couldn't change this fate, but Heaven's Teachers could.
Because a Heaven's Teacher had cultivated a Yang Spirit, when their lifespan was exhausted, their three souls could temporarily become Yang Spirits and attach themselves to their corpses. These corpses were bestowed by the Corpse Sect to talented disciples.
After a long period of cultivation, when these disciples reached the Heaven's Teacher realm, the original Heaven's Teacher's Yang Spirit would appear and devour the three souls of these disciples, thereby avoiding the reincarnation cycle of the heavens and obtaining a new life.
To put it bluntly, the Corpse Sect was the middleman of this body trade.
Those Heaven's Teachers exhausted their lives to cultivate. No one was willing to be unable to cultivate because their lifespan was insufficient.
Because of the special nature of this trade, all the metaphysical sects, whether they were orthodox sects or heretical sects, almost all Heaven's Teachers couldn't escape the temptation of lifespan.
However, if someone wanted to exist, they couldn't do without the Corpse Sect's trade.
Therefore, the Corpse Yin Sect lived in seclusion in the Taihang Mountains. They constantly kidnapped people from the outside world and bought and sold corpses. No one ever investigated them. Even all the metaphysical sects kept the name Corpse Yin Sect a secret and didn't even mention it.
It was also this special nature that allowed the Corpse Sect to have abundant development over the years. Their strength was incomparably huge. However, most of the people in this sect were cultivation madmen. They had been hiding from the world to cultivate, so the outside world didn't know about them.