607: The Technique to Sever the Three Corpses! A Primordial Spiritual Treasure!

"That old thing Qi Cheng really did lie."

Chen De cursed under his breath after searching through all of Qi Cheng's memories.

Slap!

Immediately after, he gave himself a slap on the mouth, pressed his palms together, and murmured, "The Holy Mother does not use foul language."

Chen De was a polite Holy Mother; only then could he set a good example for all living beings.

From Qi Cheng's memories, he indeed discovered that the fellow had hidden quite a few things.

For instance, when Yu Qianhong had given him his instructions back then, she had also handed over the Three Corpses Severing Method to him.

After all, she hadn't known what the final outcome of her attempt would be at that time.

Leaving this method behind was a way of leaving behind a shred of hope.

If she ultimately succeeded, she would have a way to take it back.

Consequently, Qi Cheng and the Third Elder had each received a copy of the Three Corpses Severing Method.

Unfortunately, the Third Elder was instakilled the moment he showed his face, while Qi Cheng was more cautious.

As soon as an anomaly appeared over there, he immediately activated the preparations Yu Qianhong had made beforehand.

As it turned out, the preparations were useful.

It had allowed the universe's greatest Supreme Holy Mother to escape the place of threat.

For this point alone, it could be called a deed of boundless merit.

Thus, in the end, Chen De Influenced them and gave them the status of Holy Mother as a reward.

And since he had obtained this memory, he began to conduct an in-depth study of it.

The Three Corpses Severing Method.

In his past life, Chen De had read some novels about this method, but now he was coming into close contact with it.

According to the memory, to use this method, one's cultivation must first reach the peak of the Immortal Law Realm Ninth Transformation.

Then, before using it, one needs to prepare a treasure to serve as a vessel for the Three Corpses.

The Three Corpses are divided into the good corpse, the evil corpse, and the self corpse.

The good corpse represents extreme good thoughts, the evil corpse represents extreme evil thoughts, and the self corpse represents the deepest 'Id'.

Slaying the good corpse can break through self-attachment, not being restricted by minor kindness.

Slaying the evil corpse can subdue external demons, not being controlled by evil thoughts.

Slaying the self corpse can achieve 'No-Self', redefining and understanding the self.

The order of Slaying the Three Corpses varies from person to person, but most follow the order of Good, Evil, and then Self.

In most cases where variations occur, the order of the Good and evil corpses is swapped, while the self corpse basically remains last.

Of course, one doesn't necessarily have to slay only one corpse at a time.

If you feel you are very capable or confident, you can slay all three corpses simultaneously.

In that case, you would have to prepare three treasures.

Furthermore, the treasures cannot be ordinary treasures; they must be at the level of innate spiritual treasures.

In this current era, the 'Innate' is gradually withering away, and everything bearing the word 'Innate' is becoming increasingly rare.

However, Yu Qianhong was a powerhouse at the peak of the Immortal Law Realm, and the weapon she used was an innate spiritual treasure.

innate spiritual treasures are divided into three major tiers: Immortal-grade, Saint-grade, and God-grade.

Within each major tier, they are further divided into multiple minor tiers: Low-grade, Mid-grade, High-grade, Peak-grade, and Supreme Treasure.

The blade in the hands of the Hall Master of Luohong Hall, Yu Qianhong, was a Peak-grade Immortal-tier innate spiritual treasure.

Or rather, the weapon of every leader of the Saint Ring Sect's forces was a Peak-grade Immortal-tier innate spiritual treasure; otherwise, they would be at too much of a disadvantage and find it difficult to stand out.

Even if it wasn't originally, they would make it so.

As for Chen De's world-descending demonic blade, if one were to truly count it, it should currently be at the level of a Half-step Immortal-tier Innate Supreme Treasure.

This blade grew stronger as his cultivation grew; if Chen De broke through to the Demon Venerable Realm Ninth Transformation, it should follow suit and transform into a Supreme Treasure.

This weapon brought from the Lower Plane was still so effective even now.

It was truly worthy of being wielded by a person of supreme kindness like himself.

He really didn't know where its limit was.

Chen De clearly remembered that in the projection, this blade seemed to be just one of countless streams of light flying out from a certain sword.

So no matter how strong the world-descending demonic blade was, there would definitely be a limit in the end.

He just didn't know where that limit was.

Perhaps when the time finally came, he would have to personally go and see that sword.

Back to the topic.

By utilizing the Three Corpses Severing Method, one's strength would undergo a massive surge with every corpse slain.

One corpse corresponds to a Quasi-Saint or early-stage Half-Saint, two corpses to the mid-stage, and three corpses to the late-stage.

Then, one must cultivate to the peak on their own before initiating the final step of the Three Corpses Severing Method—becoming a Saint!

However, this method had a flaw.

That was, this method seemingly turned the Cultivator into four independent individuals, violating the principle of merging the self and pursuing perfection.

No matter the time, splitting the self was a form of self-destruction and an extremely undesirable act.

Even the creator themselves understood the danger of this method, thus it was merely used as a transitional means between two major realms.

Therefore, at the end of this method, the split parts needed to be merged back together to become a Saint.

At the time, the thought was likely to split quickly, cultivate quickly, merge quickly, and break through quickly.

However, when cultivating to the final step, another flaw of this method was exposed.

Before the Three Corpses had left the body, the origin between them was consistent.

However, after they used their respective spiritual treasures as a foundation, their origins were no longer identical or interconnected.

The problem then arose: different origins meant they could not merge perfectly.

Without a perfect merger, how could one break through to become a Saint?

The main body could actively accommodate the origin of one of them and assimilate with it.

But it had no way to accommodate three origins simultaneously.

Thus, this imposed a requirement on the three innate spiritual treasures used for Slaying the Three Corpses—they had to be of the same root and origin!

innate spiritual treasures were already hard to find, and needing them to be of the same root and origin was simply a joke.

So after the flaw was exposed, many people basically treated this method as a means to increase strength at the limit when they saw no hope of breaking through to the Saint Extreme Realm.

If they couldn't become a Saint, then being a Quasi-Saint or Half-Saint still placed them above the Immortal Law Realm.

These two major flaws were why Yu Qianhong had never considered using the Three Corpses Severing Method before, as it was no different from cutting off one's own path ahead.

However, it was said that there was now a way to solve this problem, allowing for a breakthrough even if the innate spiritual treasures were not of the same root and origin.

The universe is vast; where there is a policy from above, there is a counter-measure from below, and there are always more solutions than problems.

Under the research of countless people over countless years, a way to avoid the flaw could always be found.

Heaven never seals off all exits; on the path of cultivation, no road is truly a dead end.

A so-called dead end is just you temporarily standing in the position of a pioneer.

For example, in some Small Worlds of the Lower Plane, some people cultivate to the Qi Gathering Realm and feel there is no road ahead, that this is the end of the path.

But after countless years, countless descendants have continuously evolved and developed along this path, reaching heights that were previously unimaginable.

Holding this Three Corpses Severing Method, Chen De didn't know now if he would use it or if he should use it.

So far, there were two people who had used this method.

One was the Hall Master of Luohong Hall, Yu Qianhong, whom he had seen—she was already mentally unstable.

The other was the Sect Master of the Nine Absolute Sword Sect, Xie Feng, but he had never met him.

He was still not quite clear on what one became after Slaying the Three Corpses.