However...
"Light the lamp, scorch the cotton thread, dry out the lamp oil, producing a wisp of elusive blue smoke..."
Liang Qu looked at his own hands, looked at the corpse in front of him, and at the crimson blood shadow beside.
Clearly, there is only one consciousness, yet there are three people in this world.
Strange.
Bizarre.
Like viewing White Bone Observation and Unclean Observation.
He recalled the words of the Old Monk.
Heaven-reaching and Earth-standing, retrieving the Heavenly Soul and Earth Soul, first requires sensing the Heavenly Soul and Earth Soul, yet they are not loose entities outside, they reside within every person.
The survival of the three souls in the spirit, hence the body perishes and the soul returns along the three paths.
The Heavenly Soul returns to the Heavenly Road, the Earth Soul to the Underworld, the Human Soul to the grave.