When the first rays of sunlight rose, it seemed to be the moment when all things came back to life. Even the air nearby appeared especially clear, as clear as gemstones. A gentle mist shrouded the distant lake, making it look warm.
In this warm spring sunlight, even corpses seemed as though they would not decay.
They lay beneath such daylight, the sunlight flickering like flames as it licked their handsome faces, tinting their skin with a glistening pale pink that did not resemble the complexion of the dead.
They should not have died in the first place. Though both their throats had been slit, the bloody wounds had miraculously healed, leaving only faint traces like scabs.
A surging, life-filled primordial qi, like burning flames, circulated, flickered, and rolled through the meridians within their bodies, spreading throughout their limbs and bones.
This power originated from their hearts, flowing through their entire bodies and stirring the Longevity Art within them. It healed the wounds on their necks and brought their brains back from dormancy, returning them from death to life.
This situation was extraordinarily unbelievable, but not impossible.
For after an ordinary person died, the brain could still continue functioning for the time it took to drink half a cup of tea.
After that, once the blood supply stopped, brain cells could no longer survive, resulting in brain death. Twelve hours after brain death, the person could then be considered truly dead.
Yet it was not impossible for someone to suddenly revive during that period, even to crawl out of a coffin.
That was because the brain had not yet completely died. The supposedly "dead" body suddenly recovered and resumed its blood supply, allowing oxygen to reach the brain once more and bring the person back to life.
Even ordinary people