Undefiled corpse.

This was the first thought that occurred to Ming Shiyin.

The term referred to a phenomenon that would only occur to the souls of the strongest warriors and soldiers - those who have never suffered any wounds in their lives. In fact, this was a phenomenon so rare that it had only occurred once across the entire history of Cathay, to one of the Sixfold Ghost Kings, Zhao Yun, also known as Zhao Zilong.

The souls of these corpses would be imbued with such strength after death that they would quickly be propelled to the levels of an incarnate revenant. To be exact, Honda Tadakatsu wasn’t a completely undefiled corpse. In his old age, he did sustain a minor wound on his arm.

But that was already enough.

He was already imbued with such strength to make him practically unrivalled among all who were of the same class of cultivation. At the very least, it was sufficient to deal with an Emissary of Hell who didn’t have any Hell’s Arts at his disposal like Qin Ye.

In fact, such an opponent wasn’t a person that Qin Ye could deal with without awakening the power of his “Cosmos”.[1]

Unfortunately, the world of Yanluos contained no access to “Cosmos” altogether…

Ming Shiyin looked up and saw a hand at the other end of the spear.

It was flushed with a red hue.

This was… the hand of a living person.

Ming Shiyin’s heart thumped heavily - that is, it would have thumped heavily if it actually had one.

It suddenly thought of a question. It glanced about its surroundings. It was on the deck of the cruise liner right now. Qin Ye was still holding tightly to his umbrella-shaped spirit streamer...