Chu Yuan's Heaven-Defying Technique of Severing the Three Corpses!

What is a Past Corpse?

It is the integration and unification of everything from one's own past, transformed into a Three Corpses avatar that represents the physical body as it existed in the past.

The Past Corpse is born in the past, so the concept of life or death does not truly apply. As long as Chu Yuan himself is alive, a single thought is enough to trigger endless shifts in the past. It cannot be severed, it cannot be killed; it is eternally undying!

Therefore, even if this current Past Corpse were accidentally destroyed, as long as Chu Yuan is alive, he could pull another Past Corpse from the past at any moment, without suffering the slightest impact!

To reiterate: the past is already the past, an established fact. Even if you try to change it, it cannot affect the self in the present. This is where it differs vastly from the Technique of Severing the Three Corpses of the Primordial World!

Although the Technique of Severing the Three Corpses in the Primordial World has various variants, the bottom line is that once the entire Three Corpses avatar is destroyed, it affects the Quasi-Saint's own realm, directly causing their cultivation level to plummet!

Even for a Saint, if their Three Corpses avatar is destroyed, while they might not drop in realm, they would still suffer heavy injuries!

But for Chu Yuan—hehehe—even if you were to destroy ten thousand of my Past Corpses, I would still eat and drink as usual. It wouldn't be a problem at all!

However, the Past Corpse is only theoretically undying. In reality, it can still be killed. While existences at the Immortal King level can act across the River of Time, they primarily operate in the "present." Taking action against the "past" is prone to inviting immense karma.

But once one reaches the realm of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, this concern vanishes. They can traverse the River of Time at will and strike at the "past"!

Therefore, if it were only a Past Corpse, while an Immortal King might have no way to deal with it, a Quasi-Immortal Emperor could certainly destroy it!

No matter how many versions of one's past self there are, in the eyes of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, they can all be seen through at a single glance!

This is why a Future Corpse is necessary!

In Chu Yuan's vision, the Past Corpse is the collective embodiment of everything from his past, born in the past. The Future Corpse, then, represents his infinite future; it is Chu Yuan's longing and expectations for what is to come.

By the same logic, the Future Corpse is just like the Past Corpse: as long as the main body exists, even if it is destroyed, a single thought can cause a new Future Corpse to step from the future into the present!

Because as long as Chu Yuan himself exists, there will be a future, and with it, infinite possibilities!

Even a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, though capable of stepping into the River of Time to trace the past or travel to the future—and even acting without fear of karma—primarily operates at the nodes of the "present" or the "past." They cannot lock onto and erase an enemy in the "future" because the future is constantly changing. Perhaps because an insect passed gas, the future could change drastically!

Otherwise, the Perfect World would not have seen the rise of Emperor Huang, Shi Hao...

However, the Future Corpse is also only theoretically undying. It would still be finished if it encountered an Immortal Emperor. After all, an Immortal Emperor truly transcends the River of Time, capable of seeing through the past, present, and future at a glance. They could easily lock onto an enemy at a specific point in the future and erase them from the source. That is a true dimensional strike—a deus ex machina!

Therefore, in Chu Yuan's design, the Present Corpse, which truly links the Past Corpse and the Future Corpse together, becomes crucial!

The Past Corpse represents everything from the past, the Future Corpse represents everything from the future, and the Present Corpse represents everything in the present. It is identical to the main body—it is effectively another self, yet it is not the self!

The Present Corpse is his Dao, his Law, his everything, his entirety. It is himself, yet not himself; it is the past, yet not the past; it is the future, yet not the future. Because the present is the present; the present is the end of the past and the beginning of the future. It is the most profound and mysterious existence of all!

As long as the "present" exists, looking back reveals the infinite "past," and looking up reveals the endless "future." This is the most important point in Chu Yuan's new Three Corpses System!

Theoretically, once the Present Corpse is severed, it can also sever the Past Corpse and the Future Corpse. It could even sever a new Present Corpse, and that new Present Corpse could sever a new Past Corpse, a new Future Corpse, and a new-new Present Corpse—achieving an infinite nesting doll effect!

In Chu Yuan's design, even if his main body were to die, because the Present Corpse is his Dao, his Law, his everything, and his entirety, the Present Corpse is the self. And the new self could, with a single thought, sever the Present Corpse and continue the cycle!

To use gaming terminology, the Present Corpse is now a resurrection coin that can be infinitely copied, infinitely stacked, has an extremely short cooldown, and can never truly be consumed!

Reflecting carefully on the new version of the Technique of Severing the Three Corpses he had designed, Chu Yuan couldn't help but sigh once again. The greatest cheat he possessed in this life was not the Innate Flawless Chaos Body that the outside world believed it to be, but rather his heaven-defying comprehension, a secret known only to him!

In fact, Chu Yuan was very clear that while the Innate Flawless Chaos Body had been a great help in getting him to where he was today, his heaven-defying comprehension was the true hero. It was a truly monstrous cheat that allowed a person to grow at the fastest possible speed!

Learn it instantly, master it instantly, and once mastered, innovate upon it to reach even greater heights, or even derive countless variations—all at the pinnacle level!

Theoretically, as long as you could imagine the effect you wanted, you could gradually deduce the "cause" from the "result." It was a universal, all-purpose cheat!

Defying laws and transcending all Daos—that was the true nature of heaven-defying comprehension!

The saying goes, "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration," but the second half is what truly matters!

But that one percent of inspiration is the most important part, even more important than the ninety-nine percent of perspiration.

And his heaven-defying comprehension was the ability to infinitely amplify that one percent of inspiration, turning it into infinite inspiration!!!

However, even with such heaven-defying comprehension, Chu Yuan had still paid a heavy price and spent a massive amount of time improving the Technique of Severing the Three Corpses. After all, he had created this thing from scratch, bit by bit, and it was clearly a technique that leaned toward the top-tier, or even mythical, Primordial cultivation systems!

In reality, if it weren't for tinkering with this new version of the Technique of Severing the Three Corpses, Chu Yuan might have already entered the realm of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor two hundred thousand years ago!

"There is just one problem now."

Chu Yuan sighed, his face showing a hint of helplessness.

It had taken him two hundred thousand years to truly sever the Past Corpse, and he had gained some insights into the Future Corpse; it wouldn't take long before he could sever that as well. The problem lay entirely with the Present Corpse.

It is me, yet not me. Damn it, my brain must have been fried back then to come up with such an esoteric thing for myself to sever...

"Ancient Ancestor Chu Yuan, Chu Yang requests an audience!"