After reading the first two, Chen Miao turned his attention to the last one.
"Southern School Corpse-Sewing Secrets"!
"Southern School? Does that mean there's a Northern School too?"
Chen Miao reached out and touched the words "Southern School Corpse-Sewing Secrets," and the relevant information flooded into his mind.
Once he had digested it, Chen Miao clicked his tongue.
"There really is a Northern School!"
The Southern School Corpse-Sewing Secrets contained quite a lot. Like the Zhong Clan's Secret Manual of Corpse Driving, it recorded not only its origins but also assorted anecdotes and other material.
This Corpse-Stitching Secret Art actually concerned a profession within the Yin Gate: Corpse Stitchers!
The Yin Gate encompassed professions associated with death, funerals, and taboos involving yin and yang. Because of their unusual nature, people shunned those professions, yet still needed them.
Corpse Stitchers, corpse drivers, corpse bearers, and others all belonged to the Yin Gate.
The Southern School Corpse-Sewing Secrets recorded some of the methods used by Corpse Stitchers.
Corpse Stitchers were originally called "Corpse-Assembling Masters," referring to people who used animal sinews to stitch together the bodies of those killed on the battlefield.
As the profession developed, it eventually branched into the Northern School, the Southern School, and several esoteric lineages.
[The Northern School sews corpses; the Southern School paints skin.]
That saying alone made the difference between the two schools clear.
Northern School Corpse Stitchers specialized in stitching limbs together.
They were commonly found on battlefields and in execution chambers, tasked with reassembling the bodies of those killed in battle or executed.
Some also made special burial equipment, such as the Conjoined Coffin.
Southern School Corpse Stitchers specialized in restoring appearances.
They dealt with both the dead and the living.
Compared with the Northern School, those of the Southern School generally enjoyed