"As for the third matter—it is resurrection."
The moment Lu Yuan spoke, Yao Lao laughed.
Although Xiao Yan knew that Lu Yuan was stronger and more capable than him, he laughed as well.
Casually, he patted Lu Yuan on the shoulder.
Volunteering himself, he said, "Leave something like reviving Master to me. We're both Master's disciples, after all. Give me a chance to prove myself."
"Of course reviving your master will be left to you."
With that perfectly matter-of-fact reply, Lu Yuan left both Yao Lao and Xiao Yan dumbfounded. Then, he dropped an earth-shattering answer: "I mean reviving Han Shanshan!"
Yao Lao inevitably fell silent for a moment.
Xiao Yan, who now understood a little about cultivation, also looked silently at Yao Lao.
Everything he knew told him that the dead could not return to life.
Of course.
In different worlds, humanity defined death differently.
Death could be divided into three kinds.
The first was physical death.
For example, Yao Lao's current state was physical death.
As long as a world permitted the existence of souls.
Physical death could not represent true death.
The second was spiritual death.
Han Shanshan, for example, had suffered a double death—death of both body and soul.
However, compared to clearly defined physical death, the definition of spiritual death was far vaguer. Judged from the perspective of the body, spiritual death was equivalent to brain death. Yet brain death could not completely represent spiritual death, because the soul could still exist after brain death.
Yao Lao was the most obvious example.
Not only had he suffered brain death, he had not even left behind an intact corpse.
Yet his soul was still alive and kicking.
Therefore, whether a person's soul was dead could not be judged by any standard related to the physical body.