"Only the people of Bright Governance Mountain, the sect leader, and the two deputy sect leaders, Pure Yang and Origin Yin, know this secret. Those above the Third Realm are told when they enter their twilight years. No one else knows."
Wen Sukong said.
After hearing this, a thought arose in Cheng Xinzhan's mind:
I must make sure these seniors never have a day when they need to be awakened.
"As for those golden coffins."
Wen Sukong looked toward the golden coffins. "Those hold the corpses of mortal emperors throughout the ages."
Cheng Xinzhan's eyelids twitched again.
Wen Sukong looked at her disciple and asked,
"Do you still remember what the Green Beetle Life-Transformation Scripture says about corpses of Ji Earth?"
Of course Cheng Xinzhan remembered. He answered,
"Corpses of Ji Earth are stiff corpses, accounting for eighty or ninety percent of all walking corpses under heaven. Though they readily become animated corpses, they rarely amount to much. There is only one kind-"
He suddenly stopped, looking at the golden coffins, then at Wen Sukong.
"Only one kind, called an emperor corpse. Once it forms, great calamity follows. It can command all stiff corpses under heaven and overturn Yin-Yang!"
Wen Sukong nodded.
"Correct. But in all your reading of historical records, have you ever seen an account of an emperor corpse throwing the world into chaos?"
Cheng Xinzhan shook his head.
"Emperor corpses began with the First Emperor. In life, the First Emperor wanted to establish an Immortal Dynasty, but he also prepared a fallback: his mausoleum and burial figurines. He was the first person to master the art of nourishing emperor corpses.
"The First Emperor sought to establish an Immortal Dynasty, both breaking the convention that mortal kings could not attain longevity and treating immortals like petty clerks, drawing