The enormous coffin slowly opened, revealing the five decayed and incomplete corpses within. Without the immortal artifact Heaven-Measuring Ruler supplying an endless stream of energy, the formation inside the coffin had lost its glow, and the corpses' vitality had grown exceedingly faint.
"Can corpses this damaged still be used?" Mu Yuyi asked.
"If they are strong enough, I can use other people's corpses to fill in their missing parts," Zero Burial said softly. He immediately leaped up, arriving beside one of the corpses within the coffin, then gently pressed a hand against it.
After probing it a few times, violet-gold Sage Chakra began circulating around Zero Burial's hand. He pressed down again, gradually increasing the force of his hand.
"The strength of this corpse... seems far greater than even Ling Hui's..." Zero Burial's Rinnegan narrowed slightly.
Mu Yuyi was also mildly startled. He had not expected a corpse damaged to such an extent to be stronger than the Deva Path's current body. That meant these five people had likely been stronger than Mahayana-stage Ling Hui in life. Could they have been at the Tribulation Transcendence stage? Or perhaps...
"I can refine the current Five Paths of Pain into these five corpses. Although doing so will leave weaknesses in these bodies, overall, it will be an enormous improvement to my Six Paths of Pain," Zero Burial said as he slowly descended from the air.
"As long as it helps you," Mu Yuyi nodded, no longer pursuing the matter. "By the way, how is Kong Chen doing?"
"He is still unconscious, but his condition is fairly stable. White Tiger has now awakened her Wood Spirit Sacred Body, and together with Southern Dipper's power of light, their healing abilities are both extremely powerful. Nothing should go wrong," Zero Burial said.
"We really have