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"": "The orthodox name for the Six-Arts Fangshi was the lineage of the Way of the Immortals.
After they took over the Underground Palace, they began to focus on alchemy.
Throughout history, every emperor and noble had sought immortality.
There was no certain art of eternal life, but pills offered a path.
The practitioner of the Way of the Immortals who took over the Underground Palace began having his disciples take pills in large numbers.
The pills had benefits and drawbacks. Their benefit was that they transformed living people into corpses, whose baleful energy could then be dispersed in a place with exceptional feng shui, allowing them to remain in the world for a long time.
The drawback was straightforward: disciples who could not withstand them would not only undergo corpse transformation, but also lose their consciousness.
These disciples remained in the Mausoleum as the Underground Palace's defenses.
Over the years, although their lineage still could not escape death, their lives had indeed grown much longer. In particular, the pills preserved their appearance, so many still looked middle-aged when they finally died of old age.
He looked somewhat older because he had already been advanced in years when he joined the Way of the Immortals.
His Master, Dai Zhixiong, had a partner named Chen Lingling. The two had taken pills together for years.
Several years earlier, Chen Lingling had become unable to suppress the corpse energy within her, and her soul had been on the verge of dissolving.
Dai Zhixiong had used a Corpse Core from a feathered benevolent corpse to stabilize her soul and anchor her life.
Without that Corpse Core, the corpse energy within Chen Lingling would have burst forth completely, enough to make her grow black feathers!
The pinnacle of corpse transformation was