Master of the Xuanyin Sect of Mount Shu

Chapter 1 Blood Moon Mid-Autumn Festival

The cave was pitch black; you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

Guan Minghui regained consciousness in his stiff body.

He remembered that he had just been working overtime in the company building. It was the Ghost Festival in July, and it happened to coincide with a lunar eclipse.

The moon outside the window gradually became waning and stained with an increasingly dark blood-red hue.

As night deepened, fewer and fewer lights were turned off outside the window.

Guan Minghui ordered a late-night snack as usual, but was told that they could not find a delivery rider and could not deliver it.

"I've had enough of this lousy job! I only get a few thousand yuan in pay each month, and I have to work overtime every single day! My department head is a bastard too. He takes advantage of my easygoing nature and exploits me."

And this damn Ghost Festival! All the delivery drivers are hiding at home, no one's delivering my late-night snack. Where are the ghosts in this world? If there are any ghosts, come out first, take a bite, and I'll eat you up like stubble for my midnight snack!

He cursed and swore, venting the resentment that had been brewing inside him for a long time.

I cursed for over ten minutes, but my chest still felt tight.

The resentment didn't lessen; instead, it boiled over, rushing straight into my head and causing waves of dizziness.

He thought he was feeling sleepy again, so he made two packets of instant coffee and gulped them down, which only made his stomach churn and his chest and abdomen feel even hotter, but at least he felt a little more awake.

He sat back down at his computer to continue working, but after only a few keystrokes, he suddenly felt his vision go black, the world spin, and he fell forward.

Before anything could be done, the memory was abruptly cut off...

When they regained consciousness, they were already in this dark cave.

The body was stiff and cold, as if cast from pig iron, and had no normal sensation.

There was no light in the cave, yet he could clearly perceive the surrounding stone walls and the stone bed beneath him.

It's like a fucking dream!
Am I already dead? Is this a freezer in the morgue?

What appears to the living as a freezer, but to ghosts as a cave? Is it a spatial overlap?

Before the thought could finish, a cluster of memories suddenly appeared in my consciousness:
A middle-aged man with long, thin eyebrows made hand seals, controlling seven immortal swords to attack him. Images of a golden dragon, a green snake, a white rabbit, and a black tortoise flashed within the sword light.

A dazzling light, unstoppable in its force, shattered his flying swords and magical artifacts one after another. Finally, the seven swords combined and pierced his own chest!

Before he could even process this memory, another flood of memories rushed in.

He himself manipulated eighty-one divine banners, which soared through the sky.

Each banner was enveloped in a black mist about an acre in size, containing the spirits of various birds and beasts, roaring and baring their fangs and claws, trapping the two Taoist priests inside.

In an instant, it was refined, and the person and the magic weapon were transformed into wisps of blood energy, while the primordial spirit was collected onto the divine banner.

Memories swelled in piece by piece, some triumphant, some dejected, some murderous, some murdered; some complete, some fragmented, and the timeline was a jumbled mess, with events reversed.

After merging all the memories and sorting out the time and characters, Guan Minghui finally figured out a fact: this is the world of Shushan Swordsman, and he has become the famous demon corpse Gu Chen!

Gu Chen, the leader of the Xuan Yin Sect in the Shu Mountain world, is a ruthless man who once challenged Li Jingxu, the founder of the Qingcheng Sect, and the two elders of the Great Wilderness. He has been a dominant force for thousands of years and has rarely been defeated.

Ultimately, after his master, the Heavenly Lustful Cult Leader, was executed by Heaven, he himself was killed by the Seven Swords of the Emei Sect Leader, the Long-Eyebrowed Immortal.

He was too badly injured at the time; his body was pierced by the Seven Cultivation Sword, completely severing his life force, and his primordial spirit was also shattered into countless pieces.

The Long-Browed Immortal was about to ascend to immortality, and there wasn't enough time to collect him into the Yin-Yang Microcosm Array and completely refine him over a hundred days. Instead, he was suppressed within the belly of the Spirit Jade Cliff in the Mangcang Mountains, leaving behind a prophecy:

Over a hundred years later, Gu Chen will be resurrected as a demon corpse. When he breaks free of his shackles and sees the light of day again, a newly initiated disciple of the Emei Sect will come to kill him once more, wielding the sect's most treasured Purple and Green Twin Swords!
Gu Chen was severely damaged, both physically and mentally. He was subjected to relentless torment from the fierce winds and earthly evil spirits day and night, suffering unbearable pain. He desperately tried to gather the fragments of his primordial spirit to rebuild his physical body, but due to his deep resentment towards the Long-Browed Immortal, his mind was in turmoil and he could not control it. During his cultivation, he suffered a qi deviation and completely lost his mind.

By a twist of fate, and through some mysterious attraction, Guan Minghui's soul was drawn over!

Guan Minghui incorporated Gu Chen's shattered soul into his own divine soul. Although he could no longer piece them together into a Dharma body, each fragment carried a portion of Gu Chen's memories and magical power.

After the complete fusion, Guan Minghui not only possessed Gu Chen's thousand-year memories, but also his magical powers.

Unfortunately, Gu Chen suffered a severe injury from Chang Mei, and his remaining magical power was less than one-tenth of what it was at its peak.

The original Gu Chen possessed a thousand years of cultivation, having refined the Profound Yin Cold Flame Golden Pill and the Profound Yin Beast God Nascent Soul within his abdomen. He also possessed the Yin Demon Gathering Beast Bone Dissolving Divine Qi, and his primordial spirit cultivated the Netherworld Black Omen Profound Fiend Dharma Body, and refined the Three Corpse Incarnations...

Even his physical body is extraordinary. He was able to be accepted as the first disciple by the Heavenly Lust Sect Master not only because of his exceptionally high comprehension, but also because his physical body was originally of excellent quality, one in ten thousand.

During its thousand-year cultivation, this physical body absorbed endless Yin energy from heaven and earth, as well as malevolent forces from the five directions. After repeated tempering and transformation, it has cultivated the Xuan Yin Three Corpse Divine Transformation Body with spiritual roots and jade bones.

Not only can ordinary flying swords not damage it in the slightest, but even if it is cut into pieces by peerless divine weapons or blown to pieces by heavenly tribulation lightning, as long as its spirit remains intact, it can still be reassembled with magic power.

With just one hundred days of cultivation using the Mysterious Yin Technique, one's bones and muscles can be rebuilt, flesh and blood can be regenerated, and one can be restored to their original state!

At his peak, Gu Chen's strength was still far inferior to that of his master, the Heavenly Lust Cult Master, but his ability to soar and change, and to enter and exit the Netherworld, was almost unstoppable.

But now, none of that is left!

The Dharma body shattered, the incarnation was severed, the physical body was killed, the nascent soul dissipated, and the inner core was completely destroyed.

Although I remember many powerful spells, most of them are no longer usable.

Originally, Guan Minghui could have abandoned this broken physical body, escaped in the form of his primordial spirit, flew out of the mountain, and gone to the human world to find a suitable family to be reincarnated into.

However, Master Changmei was also worried about Gu Chen doing this, so he specially locked the Fire Cloud Chain on him before leaving.

The Fiery Cloud Chain was forged by the Long-Browed Immortal over several years using three sets of ancient treasures.

There were five rings of different sizes, one around his neck, one around his wrists, and one around his ankles, connected by a chain. Another main chain was embedded in the rock beneath him.

This thing can not only lock the physical body, but also the primordial spirit.

The chain contains solar elites, and once attacked, even by just pulling it, it will unleash the flames of the sun.

Gu Chen had previously tried to escape his primordial spirit, find another body outside, and possess it to be reborn.

The moment the primordial spirit left the body, it triggered the chains, and a burst of intense solar true fire erupted forth.

Unable to withstand the burning of the true fire, the primordial spirit hurriedly retreated back into the physical body.

Even a body that had been tempered for a thousand years was burned until its skin was charred, its flesh was rotten, and its bones were charred black.

Even Gu Chen couldn't withstand the torture of refining his soul and forging his bones; the unbearable pain left a deep and terrifying shadow in his memory.

Guan Minghui accepted those memories and felt them deeply. His primordial spirit remained inside his body, not daring to move an inch.

His current predicament is that he is forced to remain in this decaying body.

He tried to control his body, but couldn't even move a finger!
This is a cage, a cage of corpses, imprisoning his soul within.

This is perhaps the state of a person in a vegetative state: their consciousness is still clear, but their body is unresponsive.

Guan Minghui wanted to curse, but his body was stiff. He couldn't control his mouth and throat and couldn't make a sound. He could only curse in his mind.

(End of this chapter)