(If nothing comes up this morning, I should be able to produce the third chapter. If it still hasn't been uploaded by one or two o'clock, something may have delayed me. Fellow Daoists, please don't blame me.)
Speaking of this refined corpse, it had originally been a savage-desert exotic species. The Elder Li of Baleful God Sect whom Qin Fengming had slain back then had obtained it by chance in an extremely desolate cave. Exactly how long it had existed was impossible to know.
At that time, this refined corpse had not yet cultivated into a corpse fiend. Otherwise, even with that Elder Li's abilities, he would certainly have had no way to subdue a corpse fiend that had cultivated for countless years.
When cultivators died, their bodies and spirits generally dispersed, while their souls fell into reincarnation. Yet some, under fortuitous circumstances and in extremely special environments, could transform into corpse fiends or zombies. After being tempered by time, it was even possible for them to develop intelligence anew and once again cultivate the Dao.
Apart from these two situations, there was another. After a cultivator or demonic beast died, its soul might have already vanished, while its body was preserved due to external factors. After being nourished for countless years, that body could generate a soul and intelligence on its own. Such occurrences were also far from rare.
It was said that one of the original Supreme Elders of Baleful God Sect had been a late Nascent Soul stage Great Cultivator from countless tens of thousands of years ago whose corpse had developed intelligence on its own. Once it developed intelligence and began cultivating again, the various bottlenecks that restrained cultivators would be much less restrictive.
The fact that this refined corpse had allowed that Elder Li to