Though no fighting took place, the terror in the air was overwhelming.
Yuan Tianshu's Crane-Bone Nail was still dissolving, and the Six-Thread Golden Silkworm Gu was on the verge of breaking free.
The Tomb Guardian continued mechanically crying out for someone to save him.
Luo Bin held the shriveled Golden Silkworm Gu between his fingers, goose bumps still rising over his skin.
Just then, the headless Gu Corpse swayed to its feet. The Thread Gu on its body writhed, and Luo Bin felt his left arm begin resisting him again. It even seemed about to fall under another's control!
Yet the sensation was not particularly strong. The Gu Corpse did not try to forcefully control him.
Yuan Tianshu stared fixedly at the Tomb Guardian, the shock in his eyes deepening as his thoughts grew heavier.
Meanwhile, inside the Tomb Chamber.
Bai Wei paused briefly, then continued, "That is why Sawu Mountain has no Yang Spirit Projection—rather, no true Yin Spirit Projection. What they call Yin Spirit Projection is merely transcendence within yin. With no clear divine image, no surname at the ghostly gates, and no name in the Three Mountains, they cannot return to Pengying and ultimately have nowhere to go. They are merely Pure Spirit Ghosts, limited to reincarnation or taking another body."
"What the mirror reflects is a true Corpse-Liberation Immortal. His 'immortal aura' drifts straight upward. No yin ghost could compare."
Silence filled the chamber.
Bai Wei's lengthy explanation contained an enormous amount of information.
Even Luo Xianshen, Four-Rules Mountain's Junior Granduncle, an orthodox inheritor of Taoist Arts who had encountered so many Taoists who practiced Corpse Liberation, found his understanding overturned.
The Corpse Liberation he had witnessed was not true Corpse Liberation. It was merely a warped, cowardly path some Taoists took to buy