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Chapter 74 Southern School's Secret Techniques for Sewing Corpses (Seeking first subscription!)
After looking at the first two, Chen Miao's gaze fell on the last one.

The Secret Techniques of Southern-Style Corpse Stitching!
"Southern School? Does that mean there's a Northern School too?"

Chen Miao reached out and touched the line of text "Southern School of Corpse-Sewing Secrets," and all the relevant information flooded into his mind.

After digesting the food, Chen Miao was speechless.

"There really is a Northern school!"

The Southern School of Corpse-Sewing Secrets contains a considerable amount of information, similar to the Zhong Family Corpse-Driving Secret Records. It not only records the relevant origins but also includes some miscellaneous discussions.

This book on the secret art of corpse sewing actually refers to a profession in the underworld: the corpse sewing master!
"Yinmen" refers to professions related to death, funerals, and taboos concerning the yin and yang. These professions are not accepted by people because of their special nature, but they are needed by people.

Corpse sewers, corpse drivers, corpse carriers, and so on, all belong to the underworld.

This book, "The Secret Techniques of Southern School Corpse Stitching," records some of the methods used by corpse stitchers.

Corpse stitchers, originally called 'corpse joiners', referred to a type of person who used animal sinews to stitch together the bodies of those who died in battle.

As it developed, it eventually evolved into the Northern School, the Southern School, and some secret lineages.

[Northern school of sewing corpses, Southern school of painting skins]

This statement reveals the differences between the North and the South.

Northern-style corpse suturing masters specialize in limb stitching.

Commonly found on battlefields and in execution chambers, their duty is to piece together the bodies of those who have died in battle or been executed.

Some also make special burial containers, such as conjoined coffins.

Southern-style corpse sewing masters specialize in external restoration.

They deal with both the dead and the living.

Southern schools generally live a more comfortable life compared to Northern schools.

As for the secret sects, they are corpse-stitching techniques that evolved from some special abilities, such as 'Gu Corpse Craftsman', 'Lu Ban Yin Craftsman', 'Snow Corpse Craftsman', and so on.

However, regardless of the school, the basic techniques of sewing corpses are the same and the same.

The only difference is their respective secret teachings.

The so-called basic mortuary sewing techniques include the selection and preparation of needles and threads, sewing techniques, preservation treatment, filling and shaping, etc.

Various secret techniques, on the other hand, are special methods that are sublimated from basic skills.

This book, "The Secret Techniques of Southern School Corpse Stitching," contains some methods that differ from ordinary corpse stitching techniques.

In the book "The Secret Techniques of Southern School of Corpse Stitching," it is called the "Eighteen Styles of Painted Skin."

With these eighteen techniques for sewing corpses, a corpse sculptor can restore the face of people of different ages.

Therefore, those who are proficient in the "Southern School of Corpse-Sewing Secrets" are either outstanding in appearance themselves or accompanied by someone with outstanding appearance, using this as a signboard to show the level of their skills.

Of course, the main reason why corpse sewing masters are classified as people of the underworld is that they can use their sewing techniques to guide souls back to their rightful place, send souls back to heaven, and suppress souls under the needle and thread!

There are many things involved in these techniques.

Chen Miao was also unable to process it for a while.

In addition to this technical information, there are also taboos that cadavers need to be aware of.

For example, pregnant women's corpses should not be touched, unclaimed corpses should not be sewn up, living people's skin should not be used for sewing, and body parts should not be taken away, etc.

Then there's the assessment of the corpse-stitching person.

The "Southern School of Corpse-Sewing Secrets" records the methods for assessing corpse-sewing practitioners.

The assessment consists of three parts.

One method is blind stitching, which means that dismembered bodies can be stitched together while blindfolded.

Secondly, it allows for identification of the deceased's appearance, as bone fragments can be used to reconstruct the deceased's features.

Thirdly, to suppress the evil spirit, he single-handedly dealt with a vicious corpse.

Those who master blind stitching are called thread arrangers.

Those who master the ability to distinguish shapes are called "Zhuigusheng" (缀骨生).

Only after passing all three tests can one be called a corpse stitcher or corpse stitcher!

Passing the first two tests only makes one a corpse-sewing apprentice with the ability to sew corpses.

However, one cannot be called a corpse stitcher unless one has handled a vengeful corpse on their own!
After gaining a general understanding of "The Secret Techniques of Southern-Style Corpse Stitching," Chen Miao felt as if he had become a seasoned veteran!

Of course, this was just his illusion.

Some things, just knowing them isn't enough; you have to actually experience them to truly remember them!
For example, Yue Xiaodao and Yue Na were created by combining the "Curse of the Dao: Substitute Corpse Technique" and the "Curse of the Buddha: Great Compassion and Soul-Suppressing Vow Sutra".

Without experiencing it firsthand, even if Chen Miao obtained these two things, it would still take him time to fully comprehend these things that would never be explicitly stated!
"I originally thought that one tael and six mace of good deeds would be enough to make me rich, but now it seems that it is not that much."

Thinking about the things the corpse-stitching man would need, Chen Miao shook his head.

"I don't want to think about it anymore. I'll take it slow. Compared to me, those real corpse stitchers have experienced far more difficulties." Chen Miao shook his head and stopped thinking about it.

He turned his head and focused his gaze on two fragments of memory.

[Yue Na's Fragments of Memory] [Li Cai's Fragments of Memory]

Without hesitation, Chen Miao chose Yue Na.

After all, there are still many questions he has not been answered in this incident.

For example, in the previous chapters, how did Yue Na become stronger and break free from the constraints of the Ghost Cube?

For example, why is the lawyer given a higher priority than the other two?

These questions should be answered within the fragments of memory.

Entering the bedroom inside the office, Chen Miao lay down on the bed.

Although the only crisis he experienced in the past two days was the one at the orphanage, he actually put in a lot of effort because of the changes to the chapter content.

Now that he was lying in bed, Chen Miao was confident that he could fall asleep quickly even without the memory fragments.

Pick up the book and touch the pages of "Yue Na's Fragments of Memory".

……

"I see your forehead is dark, you're bound to lose money today. Give me five cents, and I can help you solve this problem!"

The girl, who was getting off work, suddenly heard this sentence coming from the side.

She wouldn't normally pay attention to such charlatan-like words.

Unfortunately, the voice that said this sounded rather immature.

Turning her head, she saw two little boys.

The sentence I just heard was said by a little boy to another boy.

"You're talking nonsense! I'm only losing money if I give you 50 cents!"

The little boy wasn't fooled.

"If you don't lose money, you'll bring bloodshed. Are you sure?"

The charlatan boy still didn't give up.

"Heh heh, I don't believe it!"

Seeing this, the little charlatan nodded and ran into the large door behind him.

As he ran, he shouted, "Grandma Dean, Zhang Dali found a dollar, but he didn't hand it over to the police officer. He bought candy with it!"

Just two minutes later, the girl heard the little boy who had previously disbelieved in the possibility of bloodshed crying loudly.

The girl laughed at the scene.

She looked up and saw the words on the gate.

[Getting better and better]

Next to the large characters, there are three smaller characters.

"An increasingly better welfare home? An orphanage?"

The girl's eyes darkened, she hesitated for a moment, and then went inside.

Soon, she saw the two children from before.

The person who picked up the money was covering their palm, smiling through tears in their eyes.

As for the reason for his laughter, it was naturally the charlatan kid opposite him.

The little boy, who was charlatan-like, was being slapped on the palm.

"Dali failed to return the lost money; he was wrong."

"You're wrong to report it just because you didn't get any benefit from it!"

"Now do you know why you were punished?"

The charlatan kid pouted and drawled, "I know!"

The girl couldn't help but laugh out loud at the sight.

So, the three of them—one adult and two children—looked over.

The girl stopped smiling and said shyly:

"Hello, my name is Yue Na, and I'm here to make a donation."

……

(End of this chapter)