The Long-faced Elder's pupils contracted as he quickly blurted out, "To revive someone who has been dead for centuries—could it be the method of resurrection through a remnant soul that you speak of, Fellow Daoist?"
In the Cultivation World, there were many methods by which cultivators could preserve their lives after their bodies perished.
Yet regardless of the method, there was a most basic requirement: at the very least... the cultivator's soul had to remain, even if only as a remnant soul.
The Long-faced Elder, as well as the many cultivators present who had dabbled in such methods, had all thought of this first.
Yet the moment the Long-faced Elder finished speaking, the Sacred Spirit Cult Saintess gently shook her head.
"There is none! When this fellow Daoist died, her soul had already scattered."
"I believe it is not only you, Fellow Daoist. The other Nascent Soul Stage fellow Daoists present should all have seen this clearly long ago."
"The fellow Daoist within this Ice Coffin has indeed been dead for a long time! Moreover... this is death in its truest sense, body and soul utterly extinguished!"
Hearing the voice from the sky, the expressions of every Nascent Soul Stage powerhouse present changed slightly.
From the instant Feng Lingyou appeared, everyone had already seen clearly that the woman in the coffin was nothing more than a corpse, without even the faintest trace of life.
To cultivators, the physical body was merely a vessel.
After being dead for centuries, no matter how perfectly preserved the body might be, without a remnant soul remaining, it was death in the truest sense.
As the saying went, the dead could not be brought back to life. This had been the consensus of the Cultivation World for thousands, even tens of thousands, of years.
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