The corpse-refining inheritance of the Corpse Demon Sect should have ranked among the very top in the entire great cultivation world.
Otherwise, it would never have been possible to develop a branch of the Blood Demonic Path into the overlord of an entire realm.
Corpse refinement was much like puppet refinement. Among the Hundred Cultivation Arts, there was even a profession known as the Corpse Handler.
The greatest difference between the two was that puppets were completely dead objects and needed cultivators to control them before they could fight.
But whether they were demonic corpses of the Demonic Path or Daoist Sect zombies, practitioners of corpse refinement all possessed their own consciousness. They were only incompletely dead objects.
The consciousness of a corpse was born after it became a demonic corpse or zombie and had nothing to do with its life before death. Its intelligence was not high, but there was no problem with carrying out its master's orders.
Just look at what happened after Corpse Oil Daoist died. The mass of demonic corpses under him instantly became a headless horde. Some continued attacking Li Xiuchang's clones without fear of death, while others fled outright.
Clearly, their intelligence varied wildly.
Li Xiuchang and his clones subdued all the demonic corpses, lest they wander around and injure innocent people.
From this battle alone, Li Xiuchang obtained dozens of demonic corpses.
That was despite the fact that quite a few demonic corpses had been destroyed by him. Most of them had been seized from the Storage Bags of the Corpse Demon Sect disciples.
After dealing with the demonic corpses and cleaning up the battlefield, Li Xiuchang immediately fled into the distance.
He found a secluded, deserted place, then took out the Jade Slip again and carefully studied the records on the "Nine