"There are hands! There really are hands!"
"Is this... the Immortal Corpse!?"
Looking straight at it almost made their eyes sting.
He Zheng backed up a step, axe in hand, his eyes filled with shock.
He had never imagined the Taoists here would be mad enough to dismember an immortal, though the clues they had found did suggest these Taoists had done something to one!
"What do we do now!?"
"Are we supposed to piece its body back together and revive it!?"
"What if it comes back as an even more terrifying ghost!?"
"No!"
"Burn it!"
"Resentment! It has to be resentment! Piecing the body together is pointless! We don't know how to revive an immortal!"
"Do you remember what the Immortal Gate ritual said!? Now array the Seven Torches, ten thousand energies return to one! Once the Seven Candles burn, Shaking Light shall show the way!"
"'Candle' didn't just mean a wax candle-in ancient usage, it also meant a torch! And 'torch' referred to a great fire!"
"Together with 'Shaking Light shall show the way,' that means opening the Immortal Gate doesn't require finding seven candles. We need to light six things like torches, then use this candle to guide us!"
Li Tianyang grew excited, his mind racing to connect the Taoist texts he had read.
Among the seven souls, Non-Toxic dispelled illness and impurity, while the Shaking Light star governed serious illness! Though the two did not match, they opposed one another like yin and yang!
Not only that, the hands, feet, head, eyes, body, and heart corresponded exactly to the six pillars!
An immortal could not ascend with a mortal body, so once they burned the corpse away, the Immortal Gate would open under Shaking Light's guidance!
No one dared hesitate. Though they were unsure whether this