"Ah... I don't know whether my father did it deliberately or not. In any case, I was buried underground here!"
"As luck would have it, this also happened to be a place of utmost yin, utmost turbidity, and utmost cold!"
"At the time, my three ethereal souls and seven corporeal souls had already entered reincarnation, but a wisp of remnant soul remained on my corpse!"
"That wisp of remnant soul began its long years of cultivation within my corpse!"
"I'm a ghostly being, so my cultivation was extremely slow. But we ghostly corpse cultivators have one advantage: as long as we don't fall into a tribulation of slaughter, we can continue to exist forever!"
"We won't die!"
"Or rather, we're already dead!"
"And so, year after year, day after day... who knows how many tens of thousands of years passed!"
"I finally cultivated to the Void Refinement Realm!"
"Hehehehe..."
"After reaching the Void Refinement Realm, merely comprehending the Power of the Laws between heaven and earth was too slow. It could hardly let me break through my Dao Obstacles!"
"So I began leaving this tomb, concealing my cultivation and yin qi, and appearing in the Spirit Realm in human form. I searched everywhere for cultivators, then tricked them into my graveyard and devoured their Nascent Souls and Daoist Laws. Breaking through my Dao Obstacles that way was more than a hundred times faster!"
"Hehehehe..."
"Now you should understand why you've ended up here, shouldn't you?"
They exchanged glances.
Beichen asked, "You mean you're going to devour us?"
"No, no, no... I have pills here, and ready-made Daoist Laws and principles!"
"I can give them all to you!"
"Let us go!"
"Impossible!" The woman shook her head. "Over ninety percent of the pills in the Spirit Realm are useless to corpse