89: Resurrecting a dead body? ridiculous

After Xu Sanyan walked away, the woman turned and returned into the cave, passing through a dark and narrow passage until her eyes suddenly brightened.

A vast hall appeared before her, with thousands of ever-burning lamps hanging on the surrounding walls, made of unknown Materials that would not extinguish for a thousand years.

The dimly burning flames made the hall appear even more eerie.

Beneath the candlelight were haphazardly placed coffins; if one were to rise into the air, they would discover that although these coffins looked chaotic, they were actually arranged according to a certain pattern, truly a chaos with order.

And on the central stone platform, there was a massive coffin made of jade, upon which a complex drawing was outlined with gold threads, resembling... a Formation.

Even stranger, this coffin was standing upright.

The woman, with bare feet, stepped on the ground, bypassing the coffins placed along the way, and stood silently before the jade coffin.

As the coffin lid slowly opened, a faint white light spread out, revealing two fist-sized luminous pearls embedded in the top of the coffin, illuminating its interior.

It also revealed a shriveled corpse inside the coffin.

This corpse was precisely the Imperial Advisor from eight hundred years ago!

The corner of the woman's mouth slowly curved upwards, "Rebirth from death...?"

"Hehe... Hahahahaha..."

"A fantasy!"

The woman threw her head back and laughed, as if possessed, two crystalline tears falling from the corners of her eyes, gently hitting the stone platform.

Eight hundred years ago, that Imperial Advisor's Soul Return Through Borrowed Life had failed.

Want to live another life?

How could it be so easy!

There was no Soul Return Through Borrowed Life,

and even less Rebirth from death.

Only a girl was trapped within the coffin, enduring eight hundred years of solitude and despair alone in this dark and sunless tomb.

This Formation extended her life, but also brought her endless torment.

No one knew how she had endured those eight hundred years.

Only a gradually withered corpse accompanied her, along with a book.

This book was held in the Imperial Advisor's hand, recording all information about the "Soul Return Through Borrowed Life," as well as some matters very important to the Imperial Advisor.

She guessed that the Imperial Advisor might have feared losing his memory after his revival, which was why he left a contingency.

After all, with Daoist Magic concerning the Divine Soul, no one could be sure what unexpected situations might occur.

Initially, the Imperial Advisor had used his methods to put her into a state of suspended animation; her Imperial Father did not suspect the Imperial Advisor's trickery and still trusted him implicitly.

How could the methods of a Soul Refinement Realm Great Cultivator be discerned by ordinary Cultivators like them?

Everything that followed was logical; the Imperial Advisor deceived her Imperial Father, using the full power of Great Liang to search for the Materials needed for the "Soul Return Through Borrowed Life," collecting jade treasures, and finding common people whose fate matched hers to be buried with her.

The hundreds of coffins in this tomb were for those whose fate matched hers.

The Coffin Guard Village was indeed part of the Formation.

But no matter how much the Imperial Advisor schemed, in the end, it was all for naught; this Daoist Magic simply could not be completed!

All because... the Heavenly Dao did not permit it.

No one could bypass Reincarnation and achieve Rebirth!

After the Imperial Advisor's failure, he died completely, and she fell into a daze; after an unknown number of years, her thoughts gradually cleared, and she discovered that she... could not get out.

The coffin lid seemed to be firmly attached to the coffin by a suction force, no matter how hard she tried, she could not open it.

She cried out,

she struggled,

she despaired...

Fortunately, the Imperial Advisor's previous arrangements took effect; wisps of vitality flowed into her body through the Formation on the coffin, sustaining her life.

Thus, she was completely trapped here, spending her days in anxiety; with nothing to do, she began to try Cultivation.

Because she was exploring on her own without guidance, and coupled with the barren Spiritual Qi underground and the lack of Heaven And Earth Treasure, her Cultivation progress was extremely slow.

But she had plenty of time.

As time passed, the world changed, and hundreds of years flashed by.

Then one day, she suddenly found that she could get out...

So she pushed open the jade coffin lid, looked at the coffins scattered on the ground, and found that she seemed to be able to control these zombies; a faint connection bound them together, allowing her to control them as if they were her own limbs, and then she controlled them to dig a passage out.

When she breathed the fresh air again, that feeling of Rebirth made her heart flutter.

She didn't know how many years she had been underground, so she abducted a person and questioned him carefully, only then realizing that eight hundred years had passed in the outside world...

Her Imperial Father, Imperial Mother, elder brother, and all other familiar people had long since passed away, turning into a handful of yellow earth.

For these eight hundred years, these relatives were her only hope for perseverance; she longed daily to see her parents again, but now that hope was shattered...

As for why she lingered there, it was because one item had not yet been found; only by obtaining that treasure could she completely break free from the Great Formation's shackles.

And the person she had abducted back then was the old village elder who had received Xu Sanyan.

... ...

Xu Sanyan controlled the Fiend to abduct the old man from the village; the old man looked helpless, but there wasn't much panic on his face, as he was already half in the grave and had long since ceased to care much about life and death.

The old man merely sighed inwardly, wishing that he wouldn't always be the one caught and tormented; he was old and couldn't handle too much trouble anymore.

"Young Hero, did you call me for something?" the old man stroked his disheveled beard.

Xu Sanyan smiled, "Today I met that princess."

A trace of surprise flashed across the old man's face, then returned to normal, but this momentary change in expression did not escape Xu Sanyan's eyes.

"She said... she is that Imperial Advisor from eight hundred years ago," Xu Sanyan calmly revealed this secret, staring unblinkingly into the old man's eyes, wanting to see his reaction.

The old man showed an expected look of astonishment, exclaiming, "How is that possible?"

Xu Sanyan's eyes subtly shifted, and he directly asked, "Do you know what she searches for in the village every day?"

The old man asked in confusion, "What do you mean, Young Hero?"

Xu Sanyan sneered, "Don't tell me you don't know!"

"Uh... this old man truly doesn't understand your meaning." The old man shook his head.

Xu Sanyan's eyes gradually turned cold; he was certain the old man was hiding something from him, "It seems unless I use some methods, you won't speak."

The old man said with a bitter expression, "This old man truly knows nothing."

"Hehe... It's good that you don't know, let's see if your mouth is hard or my blade is hard!"

The old man sighed deeply, slowly shaking his head, "Alas... this old man is but a simple villager, only knowing to live aimlessly; what the Young Hero says, this old man truly does not understand."

"Is there really nothing you want to say?" Xu Sanyan pointed towards the village, and the Fiend's figure instantly vanished.

"From now on, one breath, I kill one person. There are probably less than a thousand people in the village, you can take your time to consider," Xu Sanyan said unhurriedly.

The old man's eyes changed, his heart filled with anger and frustration; he was certain Xu Sanyan knew nothing, at most he only had suspicions, yet he dared to threaten the lives of the villagers?

Such disregard for human life, how was it different from an evil spirit?