Reversing life and death.
Even in the Four Seasons Sect, that was an utter impossibility—helping living beings prolong their lives was easy, and conferring godhood after death was easy too, but reviving someone who had died without any prior preparation was absolutely impossible.
The former was merely using divine abilities and spells to exploit a loophole within reason.
The latter was kneading life and death at will.
Even the Heavenly Dao would descend with heavenly punishment.
So Li Ye had known from the start that resurrection was impossible. Whatever had appeared inside that coffin could not have been "Old Master Chou."
And once the thing inside had completely risen to its feet, he knew his guess had indeed been correct.
What emerged was a man dressed in a heavy yet magnificent burial shroud. His face and build were close to those of a youth, but on his exposed skin, the patterns formed by corpse spots sprouted Wheat Ears.
His jade-pale cheeks carried the excitement of one brought back from death.
Golden Wheat Ears swayed with bright, compassionate light, surrounded by a fragrant scent.
—He bore some resemblance to Compassionate Embrace.
"Qingye, move!"
Li Ye no longer had time to hide anything. As he issued orders through his identity jade talisman, he shouted at Wei Qingye.
At the same time, he lightly stamped his foot.
"Ding~"
Ripples belonging to Jianmu immediately spread out, transferring everyone—everyone in East Cang Town—into Jianmu Space, where gentle mist lulled them into sleep.
Hearing Li Ye's voice, Wei Qingye acted without a second word.
Clearly, he had improved further in swordsmanship over these years.
With both hands forming seals, he pointed into the distance.
There was no grand blaze of spiritual light. The longsword simply split into countless phantoms before merging into a colossal sword that