Chapter 142: Moving Mountains
Rumble!
Rumble!
Just a few breaths later, the headless corpse was completely subdued and destroyed by Li Yanchu. Its entire body was consumed by the pure yang flames of the Jiaoslayer and burned into nothingness.
Li Yanchu stood with one hand resting on the saber, his gaze calm and steady. This suddenly-appearing evil corpse, though it had spoken boldly, was no match for him, not after he used the triple-enhanced Spirit Officer Summoning Talisman. From the moment they exchanged blows, he had already assessed its strength.
What truly surprised him was the fact that Southern Guardian Marquis had appeared in this tomb three times. Once as the murderous noble in ornate robes, once as the giant face in the terracotta chamber, and now as the headless corpse he had just destroyed.
I didn’t expect a Great Xia Qi Cultivator to also know the Three Corpses Severing Art, Li Yanchu thought to himself.
The Three Corpses Severing Art was a Daoist cultivation method. In Buddhist terms, it was called “breaking attachments.”
The “three corpses” represented three base desires or evils residing in every person. There were many schools and variations of this practice, and most of them were highly secret and rarely passed down even to close disciples.
At first, Li Yanchu hadn’t thought in this direction; he had assumed the first apparition was simply an evil spirit or some other malevolent force. But once he encountered the face in the terracotta chamber and this headless corpse, and saw that both were closely tied to Southern Guardian Marquis, he realized the truth.
That first noble youth in fine robes wasn’t the real Li Xun, but one of his severed three corpses.
“That Southern Guardian Marquis was a capable man indeed. He separated the Three Corpses from his body, revealed them in full form, and left them behind in his own tomb.”
Li Yanchu didn’t feel much hatred toward Southern Guardian Marquis, the tomb’s owner. After all, leaving behind traps and dangers in one's own tomb was to be expected.