Rama fulfilled his wish of glorifying the Buddhist faith, then retired from the world. He left the Imperial Palace and entered Mount Jiuhua, where he faced the wall in bitter cultivation, organizing and integrating everything he had learned to create this Rama's Inner Power.
From then on, relying on this extraordinary art, Rama gradually regrew the severed part of himself, restoring it whole and complete.
Host has obtained Rama's Inner Power
The flashback ended, and all the power Rama had cultivated over a lifetime flowed into Wen Qingkong's body.
Immediately afterward, surging inner force erupted from every part of Wen Qingkong's body, circulating through the meridians across his entire body.
His inner force churned, its roiling sound like crashing waves.
Somewhere in the unseen, it was as though a layer of ice had shattered with a crack.
He had broken through!
Thanks to Rama's full lifetime of power, Wen Qingkong smoothly advanced from a Martial Arts Grandmaster to a Martial Arts Great Grandmaster.
Wen Qingkong slowly exhaled a breath of stale air. The breath shot from his mouth and instantly transformed into an arrow, piercing the empty space before him.
Exhaling breath into an arrow!
Wen Qingkong opened his eyes, a trace of delight appearing in them.
Martial Arts Grandmasters and Martial Arts Great Grandmasters were both rare martial arts powerhouses in this world, figures one could only hope to encounter.
After breaking through to the Martial Arts Grandmaster realm in Yujing City with the help of Xie Qianyu and the White Lotus Sect elder, Wen Qingkong had not expected to set foot in the Martial Arts Great Grandmaster realm so soon.
Yet not long after arriving in Mingzhou City, he had used the corpse of a high monk from eight hundred years ago to successfully enter the Martial Arts Great Grandmaster realm.
At the same time, this stitching also made Wen Qingkong realize that as long as the system allowed him to stitch a corpse, there would be rewards. Whether the corpse was fresh did not matter.
A bold idea arose in Wen Qingkong's heart.
Besides entering the Martial Arts Great Grandmaster realm, Wen Qingkong had also mastered Rama's Inner Power. Yet only after reaching mastery did he discover that while Rama's Inner Power could indeed restore missing body parts, its speed was extremely slow.
It had taken Rama a full ten years to completely regrow what had been severed.
If an arm or leg were cut off, it would probably take twenty or thirty years.
Thinking of the combat power King Runner, Drizzle, and the others displayed in the original work, it made sense that Rama's Inner Power required so much time. After all, it was a divine art capable of restoring missing body parts.
Wen Qingkong wrapped up Rama's Remains, Lei Bin, Lian Sheng, and the corpses of the three Dark Stone assassins, then left his home and flew out of the city.
Having entered the Martial Arts Great Grandmaster realm, the city walls no longer posed much of a problem to him.
Once outside the city, he headed straight for Yunhe Temple.
Upon arriving at the site of the stone statues at Yunhe Temple, Wen Qingkong first buried Rama's Remains.
"Master, I obtained your Rama's Inner Power, stitched your corpse, and buried you here at Yunhe Temple. May you attain enlightenment soon."
Then, he buried Lei Bin, Lian Sheng, and the three Dark Stone assassins one by one.
After finishing all that, he dug King Runner's corpse back up and placed it on a wooden board.
He planted Three Incense Sticks in the ground before King Runner's head. After lighting them and watching for a while to make sure there was no issue, he took out the clay and water he had brought from the Corpse Seamstress Workshop and began molding the missing part.
King Runner's body was incomplete. Aside from stitching the sword wounds on his jaw and chest, Wen Qingkong also had to restore what King Runner was missing.
Wen Qingkong was highly skilled. Before long, he had finished molding it and attached it in place. Once the clay dried, Wen Qingkong checked the Three Incense Sticks again. Nothing had changed.
"You wanted to become a man while you were alive."
"Now that you're dead, I'll fulfill your long-cherished wish. I hope you don't cause trouble and let me stitch you smoothly."
Wen Qingkong spoke as he began stitching.
The wound on King Runner's chest and the shattered wound on his jaw were not serious injuries. Wen Qingkong quickly finished stitching them.
Corpse Seamstress, flashback, witness the mortal world, obtain supreme treasure Host has stitched one corpse; flashback appears
From the moment King Runner could remember, he had been an orphan. As a child, he survived through begging and theft, drifting among the Beggar Clan.
He was clever and decisive, and with his diligence and hard work, he gradually stood out among the Beggar Clan disciples. An elder of the Beggar Clan took him as a disciple.
Had things continued that way, King Runner should have become a Beggar Clan elder. He might even have had a chance to contend for the position of Beggar Clan leader.
However, on one occasion, King Runner's master took him into Yujing City to assassinate Ninth Prince Xia Dian.
In the end, Cao Qingyu, the chief eunuch at the Ninth Prince's side, killed King Runner's master with two palm strikes. King Runner was horrified and fell to his knees to beg for mercy.
At the time, Ninth Prince Xia Dian said teasingly from the side, "If you can cut off your manhood and serve under me as a eunuch, this prince will spare your life."
Ninth Prince Xia Dian had never intended to spare King Runner. He merely wanted to toy with him, deliberately setting a condition that most people would never accept.
Who could have expected King Runner to draw his sword on the spot and sever himself? Blood poured out, and the pain made him faint immediately.
But his life was spared.
Ninth Prince Xia Dian admired his ruthlessness and had Cao Qingyu take King Runner under his wing for proper training.
Afterward, Cao Qingyu kept King Runner by his side.
King Runner served Ninth Prince Xia Dian for five years. He was meticulous and reliable, handling matters properly, and finally earned Ninth Prince Xia Dian's trust.
One day, Cao Qingyu brought King Runner into a secret chamber.
Inside, Cao Qingyu taught King Runner an incomparably exquisite sword art called the Forty-One Styles of Water Splitting Swordplay.
King Runner knew this meant he was about to be given important responsibilities. He cultivated even more diligently and mastered the Forty-One Styles of Water Splitting Swordplay within just half a year.
After that, just as King Runner had expected, he no longer performed servant duties. He began carrying out missions—assassinations, investigations, and more. It was then that King Runner learned a deeply hidden and terrifying organization existed under Ninth Prince Xia Dian: Dark Stone.
Dark Stone members were spread throughout Great Xia.
In the territories of the three feudal princes—Mingzhou, Suizhou, and Songzhou—there were even three dedicated branch divisions, each operating independently.
Beyond that, traces of Dark Stone could also be found in Mongolia, Turkic lands, Jurchen territory, Goryeo, and elsewhere.
The sheer scale of the organization shocked King Runner and filled him with deep fear.
King Runner's mission success rate was extremely high. Together with his quick wits, this eventually led Cao Qingyu to send him to Mingzhou as the leader of Mingzhou Dark Stone.
It was at that time that King Runner officially became King Runner, wielding immense power and holding life and death in his hands!
Other than King Runner himself, no one in Mingzhou Dark Stone knew that Mingzhou Dark Stone was merely a branch division of Dark Stone in Yujing City.
Over the following years, King Runner focused on managing Mingzhou Dark Stone, gradually expanding it further and further. He also gained ever greater favor from Ninth Prince Xia Dian.
By then, King Runner possessed power, wealth, and martial arts.
He lacked only one final thing.
The part he had personally cut off to save his life.
Just then, rumors of Rama's Remains spread throughout Mingzhou. King Runner ordered Dark Stone to search with all its strength for Rama's Remains.
Thanks to the power of Dark Stone, they soon found the whereabouts of the upper half of Rama's Remains. It was in the home of Zhang Hai Rui, the former chief minister of the Mingzhou royal household, thus setting the later events in motion.
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