Chen Luo Was Playing with Fire?

The Vengeful Corpse Guard was a treasure Song Ci had gifted Chen Luo after becoming a Saint, as well as a loyal personal guard unit. They had accompanied Chen Luo into the Netherworld, fought in the Strange Lands, and now had rendered outstanding service in the recently concluded operation to capture An Songren.

According to Song Ci, the Vengeful Corpse Guard had originally all been people who had suffered injustice. A very small number of them had died with their resentment refusing to fade, giving rise to an obsession that made their spiritual light resist the pull of the River of Life and Death.

Under normal circumstances, such souls would gradually transform into vengeful spirits, becoming part of the "Ghost Calamity" and bringing disaster upon all living things. They would remain trapped in endless suffering for the rest of their existence, ultimately unable to escape being destroyed by some enlightened expert.

Yet once they were destroyed, the Spiritual Light of Living Beings would shatter with them, never again returning to the River of Life and Death.

Song Ci could not bear it.

Living had already been so difficult. Why should they still suffer after death?

Thus, Song Ci had researched a secret technique. He used their dead bodies to seal away their resentment, allowing their souls to be free. Those bodies, with their resentment sealed within, became the prototypes of the Vengeful Corpse Guard.

Song Ci then refined those bodies with his own Power of the Great Dao, making them obey commands from his soul without going out to harm others.

Strictly speaking, the Vengeful Corpse Guard and the people they had been in life were already completely different. The so-called resentment sealed inside their bodies was nothing more than an extreme emotion, while their soul-light had long since entered