Spiritual energy has vanished, and the Heavenly Dao has collapsed.
Immortals have become stiff-moving corpses.
Meanwhile, those creepy things have somehow become ethereal immortals, floating about in celestial splendor?
The Daoist Three Corpses: Greed, Gluttony, and Lust,
correspond to the Upper, Middle, and Lower Corpses.
The Three Corpses have taken physical form and invaded reality.
Qi Ling is told that to cultivate, he must first stab himself,
cutting out his spiritual root before he can begin.
Qi Ling: “Come on, are you messing with me? Do you have to practice the Sunflower Manual to cultivate immortality now?”
A certain rebel sneers coldly.
“Don't cut it out? Then your Three Corpses will cut you down!”
Qi Ling: …
Only later does Qi Ling realize
that even after cutting out the Three Corpses, he's still every inch a man.
But...
why is it that the Lower Corpses of almost every other corpse-slayer are sexy, beautiful girls,
while the thing floating behind him...
is a headless bride with no head?
This...
Qi Ling insists that his tastes really aren't that extreme.
The rebel doesn't believe him. “When people have enough to eat and wear, their thoughts turn to lust. So the first of everyone's Three Corpses is the Lower Corpse, the Corpse of Lust. But this guy...”
The rebel glances at the ghost behind Qi Ling, which is preparing to strangle its own Host.
His mouth twitches slightly. “Your tastes are a little extreme...”
