Corpse Refining Art, Profound Yang Blazing Flames

From the moment he entered this cave abode, Song Qingming had vaguely sensed that its owner had deliberately built it in such a hidden place, seemingly not merely for his own safety, but to conceal some unknown secret.

Seeing so many cultivator corpses before him, Song Qingming finally guessed part of the truth. The other party had hidden here to cultivate the Corpse Refining Art, a technique regarded as taboo by righteous cultivators in the Cultivation World.

In principle, the Corpse Refining Art was broadly similar to the method of refining Corpse Puppets.

The difference was that the Corpse Refining Art often used living people directly as materials, and refined corpses could be nurtured far faster than the Corpse Puppets Song Qingming and the others cultivated.

As long as one had sufficient resources, a Golden Core Cultivator could casually raise a dozen or twenty refined corpses at the Foundation Establishment Realm. Used well, they would undoubtedly provide an enormous boost in combat power for an ordinary Golden Core Cultivator.

However, because the Corpse Refining Art directly refined living people, its methods were simply too cruel, no different from the conduct of Demonic Cultivators.

As early as tens of thousands of years ago, the Cultivation World had collectively classified the Corpse Refining Art as a forbidden technique. Whenever someone was discovered cultivating such an evil art, righteous cultivators would rise up and attack them together.

After all these years, there were no longer any sects in the Cultivation World famed for the Corpse Refining Art, and many cultivation manuals and records concerning this art had already been lost.

Yet because cultivating the Corpse Refining Art could greatly enhance a cultivator's combat power, even though righteous cultivators regarded it as taboo, they still could not eradicate it completely. Many Rogue Cultivators chose