'Those between life and death, their decay does not return to the earth...'
'Bones harbor scorching frost, poison illusions bewilder the spirit...'
'Faint light shimmered, ghostfire glowed...'
Lu Feng controlled the Blood-colored War Corpse as it secretly circulated the cultivation method of the Bone Phosphorous Divine Palm. Though this technique placed an immense burden on living cultivators—upon reaching great accomplishment, it would leave their flesh ulcerated, skin destroyed, and meridians festering—the War Corpse, being bones and a corpse itself, was free of such burdens.
'Three corpses for initiation, a thousand corpses for minor accomplishment...'
In theory, successfully cultivating this Bone Phosphorous Divine Palm required the nourishment of countless corpses.
This Corpse Water Pool, settled over innumerable years, was undoubtedly the best environment for cultivating this technique.
Though the human and beast bones deposited within numbered fewer than a thousand, perhaps not even a hundred complete corpses, they had the advantage of age. They could yield even more Corpse Phosphorous than a thousand ordinary corpses carried.
Generally speaking, once a dead person's corpse had been buried underground and decayed for over three years, phosphorous could be extracted from it. The "quantity" recorded in the Bone Phosphorous Divine Palm did not refer to a literal number of corpses, but merely served as a general measure. Three corpses for initiation meant the phosphorous contained in three corpses that had decayed for over three years. If one found a corpse that had decayed for several decades, half of its torso bones alone could achieve the same initiation effect.
The same applied to a thousand corpses for minor accomplishment.
Such corpses, however, were things one could encounter only by chance. Thus, more Heretical Cultivators of this technique preferred slaughtering living people to obtain the materials needed for cultivation.
Yet with the quantity of corpses contained