The Sutra of Salvation stopped flipping pages, and Xu Qing read all the way down, learning of the relationship between Fulu Zunzhe and Nv Wa, as well as the origins of the Yin Corpse Sect.
He just didn't expect that Fulu Zunzhe's desire for a youthful physique stemmed from an amorous past incident in his early years.
Xu Qing looked at the rewards: the corpse rating was mid-grade under Tian character, and the rewards included the Lunar Nine Revolving Organ Refinement Method, Blood Essence Method, the Mountain-Burning Sea-Boiling Divine Technique, and a Shouyang Eight Scenery Bottle.
In the world, there are Two Mountains of Yin and Yang, one called Shouyang, the other Weiyin.
Weiyin Mountain has Eight Scenery: Ghost Gate, Bridge of Helplessness, Stripping Pavilion, Platform of Homesick Longing, Vicious Dog Ridge, Broken Money Mountain, Pool of Blood and Filth, and the Inn of Meng Po;
Shouyang Mountain likewise has Eight Scenery: Hidden Fog Mountain, Xuandu Cave, Sutra-Carrying Pavilion, Great Luo Forest, Vast Ocean, Divine Show Peak, Moon Yang Palace, and Radiant Sky.
The former, the Eight Scenery of Yin Mountain, is located in the Nine Netherworld, under the jurisdiction of the Nine Palaces, governing Netherworld affairs; the latter, the Eight Scenery of Shouyang, is located on Shouyang Mountain, the holy mountain of the Xuan Sect, a sanctuary of the Supreme Eight Scenery Palace, invisible to mortals.
Fulu Zunzhe learned from Nv Wa; in her early years, when Nv Wa was still a Heavenly Maiden, she lost her divine power during a battle with the War Master, falling to the mortal world.
The Supreme, moved by the merit of the Heavenly Maiden, unwilling to let her be taken advantage of by demons, gifted her the Eight Scenery Bottle to protect her true spirit.
Once Nv Wa cultivated the body of a Nv Wa, the former savior of the three realms, the transcendent and inviolable Heavenly Maiden was forced to become a disaster star on earth, never to return to the upper realms for eternity.
After the Heavenly Maiden became Nv Wa, the Eight Scenery Bottle also lost its function and was buried with her north of the Red River.
Fulu Zunzhe acquired the heritage of Nv Wa, the unimpressive clay pot being formed by the condensation of the treasure aura of the Eight Scenery Bottle.
Only, the Eight Scenery Bottle is an object of extreme yang producing yin, whereas the nameless old woman came from the Yin Mountain, a monstrous creature whose weak water just happened to restrain the Eight Scenery Bottle.
Thus, the treasure bottle condensed from the treasure aura of the Eight Scenery shattered, lost amidst the boundless mundane world.
It could be said that Fulu Zunzhe was also unlucky; when he was in a theater troupe, someone smashed the porcelain bottle that held his body. It was hard to get the treasure bottle bestowed by Nv Wa, and when he wanted to become an apprentice to the old woman, his cherished treasure was again shattered by the weak water.
When he retreated to the Yin River, who would have thought he'd be thrown down by the capricious Ghost Law, just wanting to smash her shell and see the scene inside.
As the saying goes, the first two times one may err, but not the third; in the end, Fulu Zunzhe met Xu Qing, who ruthlessly plucked the flower.
Gazing at the Eight Scenery Bottle in his hand, inlaid with the eight treasure sigils of wheel, conch, parasol, canopy, flower, jar, fish, and intestine, Xu Qing fell into contemplation.
This ancient, richly-scented bottle has only one function—it transforms extreme death into life.
If the bottle is set aside for a long time, it can gather the Three Lights Divine Water of sun, moon, and stars; if the water is poured into a place with exhausted spiritual veins, it can awaken the vitality of the earth veins, causing a barren land to re-bloom with spiritual grasses and immortal flowers.
If an immortal root is about to die, the Eight Scenery Bottle can renew the severed vitality of the immortal root.
Xu Qing happened to have a drop of Sunlight Divine Water, which meant that if he could use the Eight Scenery Bottle to gather the Star and Moon waters, he would obtain the true Three Lights Divine Water as the foundation of his Water Fiend.
However, Nv Wa had once told Fulu Zunzhe that the Eight Scenery Treasure Bottle takes a millennium to condense a single drop of divine water. To gather the Three Lights together would take at least three thousand years.
This was one reason Fulu Zunzhe, without waiting for the Three Lights to gather, was eager to find another body to possess.
Three thousand years is indeed too long.
Xu Qing's eyes flickered; he already possessed the Sunlight Divine Water; the Star and Moon waters would take at most two thousand more years. If he could, during this period, find things with star and moon power to absorb and refine in the bottle, the time might be shortened.
Even if he couldn't find them, it would still have little impact on him.
Xu Qing was not in a hurry to become fat in one bite; as long as he could endure the trial of the Heavenly Fox now, time for his Zombie form was not a pressing issue.
Aside from the mid-grade Eight Scenery Bottle under Tian character, there was also a low-grade Xuan technique under Tian character, called the Lunar Nine Revolving Organ Refinement Method.
This technique was also passed down by Nv Wa; born as a Heavenly Maiden, she knew many upper-world cultivation methods. Fulu Zunzhe, possessing only connected five organs and six bowels, was just suitable for cultivating this method.
Although the Lunar Nine Revolving has nine revolutions, they can be roughly divided into three realms. The first is the daily refining of the six bowels, wherein at the hour of the hare each day, the nascent aura of the morning sun is drawn to temper the six bowels.
The second is nurturing the five temples with the moon, requiring the moon's essence at the hour of the rat to warm the five temple organs, nourishing oneself.
The third is the realm of great success and circumambulation, at which point the Lunar Organ Refinement Method has progressed through the stages of easing the lungs, heart, kidneys... etc., until the nine turns are complete, thus the essence of the sun and the moon enters the orifices, and the starlight of the Taiyin enters the body, causing the organs to glow with color, and the internal landscape to be as solid as the Primordial One, thus forming the Tao embryo.
Xu Qing's body possesses the Undying Bone, and his bones had long returned to perfection, but he never possessed a method for refining his organs.
Now, the Fulu Zunzhe, possessing only organs, happened to have a celestial-grade organ refinement method.
Xu Qing was overjoyed; even if he only got this technique today, it would be worth the trip!
Truly, it was fortune smiled upon him, a serendipitous opportunity!
Moving on, the Blood Essence Method was of the top grade under the Di character, an insidious forbidden art that could grasp the living vitality of individuals.
Previously, when Xu Qing had rescued Tian Baoseng and that young Corpse Driver, the flame-patterned brand appearing on the back of their necks was the Blood Essence Seal.
Anyone branded with this seal became a puppet under Fulu Zunzhe, the living walking corpses.
Fulu Zunzhe could not only sense the location of those branded with the Blood Essence Seal at any time, but also decide their life and death at will!
Xu Qing's expression turned peculiar, wondering how this differed from the Three Corpses Brain God Pill of the Sun and Moon Divine Church?
Then he recalled the Plum Blossom Needle Technique he'd mastered, and the phoenix crown and wedding robe that had been gathering dust since he broke through to the Undying Bone.