Others might not know, but Master Nan knew the Bone Profound Sect inside out.
The cultivation art this sect openly taught was the White Bone God-Contemplation Great Method. It seemed very similar to the Esoteric Sect's methods, but its true core lay in these so-called hundred and eight corpses. Their number corresponded to the stars above, divided into thirty-six Heavenly Dippers and seventy-two Earthly Fiends. All were refined from the bodies of accomplished martial artists and controlled through the sect's secret arts. When every corpse was deployed, few sects in the world could hope to withstand them.
Of course, using them all at once was no easy feat, so the Bone Profound Sect had specially refined a Heavenly Corpse to command them. Unfortunately, their luck had been rotten. Among the children they took for a Blood Sacrifice was the nephew of a direct disciple of the Five Aggregates Temple, and Master Chenghua was famously protective of his own...
And so.
Back when he was not yet so old, the man had grabbed his weapon and marched straight to the Bone Profound Sect. The sect had apparently lost its mind at the time. They thought that, as an established member of the Thirty-Six Sects, they had no reason to give a damn about some newcomer. A disagreement immediately turned into a fight.
The result?
The Bone Profound Sect's deputy sect master was hacked to death on the spot, its sect master was chased around like a dog, and even the nearly completed Heavenly Corpse was destroyed. The incident had left quite a psychological scar on the sect's members. Though they constantly clamored for revenge, they never actually made a move, even when Master Chenghua was old and frail...
But that was beside the point. In his day, Master Chenghua had truly