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It's perfect, this body is perfect.
It was more perfect than any corpse he had ever seen, and more alluring than any puppet of the Corpse Gu Clan.
Although it looks dilapidated.
Xu Qi'an did not answer his question, but smiled and said:
"If the leader of the corpses is interested, he may wish to take a closer look."
"Hmph, I'm not interested." Yu Shi retorted defiantly, but walked to the coffin.
He stared at the ancient corpse for a long time without saying a word, circled the coffin, and walked slowly, completely focused.
Suddenly, You Shi exclaimed, "This doesn't seem like a martial artist's corpse, but the resilience and strength of the flesh even surpasses my third-grade walking corpse."
Li Chang'an remained silent, while Xu Qi'an smiled and said, "You're an expert."
"That's right, this is not the corpse of a martial artist. This corpse is the remains of a powerful Taoist master from thousands of years ago."
He was at the peak of the second rank. After failing his tribulation, he shed his old body, and this corpse became his remains.
"Peak of the second rank!!!" You Shi's breathing became heavy.
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You Shi's tone was somewhat heavy: "Peak of the second rank? Are you sure it's peak of the second rank?"
“A third-grade Yang God doesn’t have such a solid and immortal physical body,” Li Chang’an said.
You Shi could not refute it; the Yang Shen of the Daoist sect indeed did not possess such a physical body.
He had just tested it himself, and it was not a martial artist's body.
"Why was he ruined like this?" You Shi tried his best to keep his tone calm.
He didn't want Li Chang'an and the other two to hear his heartache and his longing for the corpse.
If the corpse knew that it had once possessed sentience, it would become even more insane.
Li Chang'an was very satisfied with You Shi's reaction.
It's just about avenging his father's death; as long as the reward is high enough, it's nothing.
"Ning Yan, why don't you talk to him about it?"
Xu Qi'an cleared his throat and began to tell You Shi a story, hoping to increase his leverage and make it even harder for the other party to refuse.
"This is a long story. This corpse had intelligence and self-awareness, and was no different from a normal living being."
We sealed him in the great tomb, but much later, when we returned by chance, we found his body shattered and his soul scattered.
Everyone could clearly see that You Shi's body stiffened and remained motionless for a long time.
"You lied to me! You lied to me! You lied to me!" You Shi was more agitated than ever before, shouting loudly.
As a group specializing in controlling corpses, the Corpse Gu Clan's ultimate academic goal is to bring corpses "back to life."
This is different from a powerful person's primordial spirit invading a corpse. Such behavior is called possession or body snatching. What a Corpse Gu Master wants is to bring the corpse back to life.
Of course, the truly dead cannot be resurrected, but there is another kind of resurrection: the corpse is given sentience.
But this great goal has never been achieved by anyone in the Corpse Gu Clan for thousands of years.
Long Tu and the others exchanged strange glances, especially Luan Yu and Chun Yan, whose eyes flashed with disgust.
Because they thought of something:
The ancestors of the Corpse Gu Clan once speculated that if the remnant soul left in the body of a walking corpse is properly nurtured, it can transform into a true primordial spirit, and the corpse will develop intelligence.
Thus, they are resurrected and reborn.
How can a remnant soul without its own will possibly transform into a true primordial spirit?
This is as absurd and ridiculous as humans creating bodies directly without going through a ten-month pregnancy.
In the eyes of the six tribes, this was an excuse that the Corpse Gu tribe had made for their abnormal relationship with corpses, forcibly anthropomorphizing the walking corpses.
Facing You Shi's questioning gaze, Xu Qi'an briefly recalled and said:
"It once told me that when that Taoist priest shed his old body, a part of his remnant soul remained inside."
This remnant soul was repaired through the Taoist's special methods, becoming a complete primordial spirit.
The leaders were stunned. They looked at You Shi with bewildered expressions and found him completely dumbfounded.
"As expected, as expected, our ancestors' guesses were correct!"
There really are ways to bring corpses back to life; there are precedents for it. This isn't some far-fetched fantasy…
Yu Shi became more and more excited as he spoke, until he was so excited that he lost his composure.
Li Chang'an waited a moment until the leader of the Corpse Gu tribe had calmed down before speaking:
"Then, in exchange for this ancient corpse, could you cooperate with the Great Feng?"
Long Tu and the others stared at You Shi... He remembered his confident statement just now and froze for a moment.
In the end, his desire for the ancient corpse outweighed his shame and dignity. He coughed and said in a hoarse voice:
“Longtu is right, the dead are gone... I shouldn’t have let my clansmen sacrifice themselves in vain because of my personal obsession.”
As for this ancient corpse, your words are only one side of the story, and I won't easily believe them. But since you've already convinced the other six departments, well, then I'll reluctantly agree..."
Li Chang'an smiled and said, "That's good."
He turned to look at Xu Qi'an, "Alright Ning Yan, take the body back."
Xu Qi'an, who was exchanging flirtatious glances with Luan Yu, chuckled, closed the coffin lid, and put the coffin back into the fragments of the Earth Book.
"Hey, Corpse!! You..." You Shi shouted, suppressing his anger, and said in a deep voice, "I have already agreed to form an alliance with Da Feng, didn't you hear me?"
“I heard you.” Xu Qi’an’s smile remained unchanged: “My master said he would give you this ancient corpse, and he will. But not now. We’ll talk about it after the war in the Central Plains is over.”
How could You Shi possibly agree to that? It would have been fine if he hadn't seen the ancient corpse yet, but now that he had, he wouldn't allow himself to lose it.
Who would willingly lose the love of their life?
"Why should I believe you will keep your promise?" he sneered in a hoarse voice.
Li Chang'an said expressionlessly, "Then why should I believe you? What if you renege on your promise and secretly ally with Yunzhou?"
Yu Shi, with his strong personality and refusal to compromise, retorted sharply: "Either leave the ancient corpse behind, or we part ways."
"Farewell!" Li Chang'an cupped his hands in farewell to You Shi.
Li Chang'an knew that You Shi could not resist the temptation of corpses, just as he could not resist the seven personalities of the Imperial Advisor.
Sure enough, after walking a few steps, You Shi stiffened and turned back.
"You shall write a document in the presence of your fellow tribesmen."
Xu Qi'an immediately took out a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and in the presence of Granny Tian Gu and others, asked Li Chang'an to write a document for You Shi and put his fingerprint on it.
Xu Qi'an said with a sneer, "Keep it safe. My master's word is law in Da Feng."
But... if you break your promise, the Corpse Gu tribe will leave no one alive.
This was not a threat; Li Chang'an was fully capable of wiping out the Corpse Gu tribe.
You Shi snorted coldly: "My word is as firm as a mountain!"
After saying that, he put the note away, his excitement and satisfaction almost impossible to hide.
"Hey, aren't you going to avenge your father's death?" Xu Qi'an silently shouted in his heart as he watched the giant bird fly away.
Nothing can escape the law of truth.
……
The alliance had been agreed upon. Granny Tiangu dismissed the other tribal leaders and told Li Chang'an about something she had recently discovered.
"I have discovered that someone has visited the God of Gu."
"You should have heard of its name. There are records of it in Yunzhou, and there was a temple dedicated to it."
As soon as Granny Tian Gu finished speaking, Li Chang'an guessed, "The White Emperor?"
Xu Pingfeng established a relationship with this descendant of gods and demons, and the two temporarily became allies.
“Yunzhou is backed by the vast ocean. It was a backup plan left to them by that lineage five hundred years ago. When their uprising failed, they went overseas.”
Looking back now, there's another reason why Xu Pingfeng chose Yunzhou as his base: he secretly established a connection with the White Emperor.
"Then the White Emperor should be a first-rank official now, right?"
Granny Tian Gu sat on a small stool, picked up the clothes in her hands, her expression was normal, and said while she was mending them, "It asked the Gu God three questions. The first question was: When will you be able to break free from the seal?"
The Gu God answered it—"In the final chapter of this great era, He will not be absent."
He will not be absent from the end of a great era, and this great era refers to the second great calamity.
The Gu God firmly believed that he could break free from the seal; a superior being would not be blindly confident.
Moreover, while the Heavenly Gu cannot glimpse a corner of fate, the Gu God, as the source of Gu magic, certainly can.
Granny Tian Gu continued, "The second question it asked the Gu God was: Where is the Dao Venerable?"