"The unfamiliar power of Great Dao Laws released by Yuanshi's Evil Corpse incarnation seemed to have had no effect on Lin Tian."
"As for why we cannot kill him, the reason is also very simple."
"We all know that the Three Pure Ones were born from fragments of Father God's Primordial Spirit. Although they relinquished their status as the Orthodox Pangu Lineage under the kindly persuasion of us Ancestral Witches long ago."
"They still have ties to Father God, after all."
"Whether he should be killed is for Father God to decide."
Houtu had improvised those words on the spot, her clever little mind spinning furiously.
The reason was actually quite simple. After hearing Lin Tian's internal grumbling, she had recalled the secret technique of Slaying the Three Corpses that Dao Ancestor Hongjun had explained when she went to hear his teachings at the Purple Heaven Palace.
Although Houtu had thought the technique useless to the Ancestral Witches at the time and had barely bothered to remember it.
She still knew a few key points about the secret technique of Slaying the Three Corpses.
For example, the Three Corpses severed through the secret technique were essentially different facets of the same entity as the original self. Once the technique had been cultivated.
Whether it was the original self or the Three Corpses incarnations, as long as one survived, the other three could not be destroyed.
If the Ancestral Witches simply killed this incarnation of Yuanshi's Evil Corpse by the most straightforward means now, it would amount to sending him straight back to his original self.
Wouldn't that be letting him off for nothing?
Houtu had not even vented her anger yet. How could she possibly do such a thing?
After hearing their little sister Houtu's words, Zhurong and the other