Severing Fate, Burying Nine Corpses

My grandpa died twenty years ago, yet somehow he found me a half-immortal master.

My master is a bizarre being who stayed behind the scenes and set up a Nine Corpse Formation to lure me into a trap.

All the corpses are beautiful women: some were bitten by countless insects, some had their chests cut open and their hearts and livers removed, some had their skin peeled off, leaving raw flesh exposed, and some could move despite having their limbs and heads sewn together with hemp rope...

Just when I thought destroying all nine corpses would give me a glimmer of hope, I discovered that my master had actually...