When a person with strong will and soul dies unjustly or cruelly or with regrets or grudge or various unforgivable reasons, various negative emotion energies are formed and inhabitant in the corpse of that person while the soul leaves for after life leaving all its negative energies in the corpse. All these negative energy formed and left by the soul attract more negative energy to inhabit the Corpse. Most of the time the flesh of the corpse is not strong enough to bear the load of the negative energies gathering so the flesh ends up disintegrating, unable to become an undead zombie, then all the negative energy gathered inhabits the bones of the corpse forming undeaded skeletons. Like undead corpses and zombies the undead skeletons also grow an independent consciousness over the years and gain strength with increasing years. If the Undead skeleton is able to live for 1000yrs it"s consciousness will grow to that of an adult human, unlike zombies the skeletons growth in terms of strength and consciousness is very slow compared to an undead corpse or zombie, there it takes the skeleton nearly 10 centuries to develop its intelligence to that of a adult human. Therefore the Undead Skeletons are considered the weakest among the undead yokai"s. Since their strength and potential of growth is very low the Skeletons are easily killed before they complete their first century, making it very hard and rare to find any 1000 yrs old or higher Undead skeleton. Even though the strength of a 1000yrs old or higher Undead skeleton is very low, their bones are high level cursed Ingredients, which can be used to create cursed artifacts like the lamp in the Bearded Old Man"s hand. But the cursed bone used to make the bearded old man"s lamp was special, it was a Cursed Bone of the extinct 100,000 year old undead Skeleton General. The cursed bones of a 100,000 year old undead Skeleton can be considered as Heavenly Cursed Treasures. The negative energy inhabitant in the cursed bone of a 100,000 yrs old undead Skeleton General is so strong that it is able to form a pseudo soul made of pure negative energy known as the "cursed soul or the d.a.m.ned soul". The pseudo soul formed by the negative energy of the 100,000 year old undead Skeleton General is more like a living curse with its own consciousness that is the consciousness of the undead Skeleton General. Due to the conscious presence in the curse it is very hard to deal with this curse once someone is cursed by this curse then it is impossible to get rid off at least in the Crying heaven, making it another bug tier skill.
The Lamp in the Hand of the Bearded Old man is called " lamp of the d.a.m.ned ", it is indeed made up of the cursed bones of a 100,000 year old undead Skeleton General, it does not have a oil chamber because it is fueled by the negative energy gathered by the 100,000 yrs old cursed bones, it does not have a burner because the bright yellow flame burning in the lamp is not actually a flame it"s the pseudo soul of the skeleton general "cursed soul or the d.a.m.ned soul" hence smoke never came out of the lamp chimney.
Looking at the lamp Sukehime thunderstruck and also felt that things have finally gone out of her calculations. Sukehime was dumbfounded because never in dreams would she have guessed that somehow one day the Cursed artifact she had secretly been cultivating for two decades will actually fall into the enemies hands and be used against her. This was a huge problem, now finally Sukehime started to get serious. " Lamp of the d.a.m.ned " was not some average high tier heavenly artifact, it was the heavenly artifact that Sukehime had refined to counter the heavenly tribulation of the world"s will when she tries to break free of the limitations of the heavens in the Crying Heaven"s world. Sukehime had reached the peak of the Crying Heaven world decades ago, unable to progress any further, she had started to regress with Time, knowing that her only way to progress further is to break free from the limitations of the Crying Heaven"s world Will, she came to such a decision because according her the Heaven which became a hardle in her path to gaining strength and achieving immortality was no longer worthy of her respect and it would not wrong if she were to rebel against it. so over the year she had been gathering various heavenly treasures and artifacts to prepare her prison break from the Crying Heaven"s World. But all those preparations were not enough as no matter what kind of Heavenly treasure or artifact in front of the strength of the worlds will they were just childrens toy understanding this Sukehime despaired, but finally 20 years ago during the empire"s war against the Corpse Emperor Sukehime found her ultimate weapon against the world"s will. One of the four royal guards of the Corpse emperor was an extinct 100,000 year old Undead Skeleton General.
Finding her ace Sukehime hatched a long term plan. Even though Sukehime was able to refine the " Lamp of the d.a.m.ned " in a day, the cursed soul in it had still not matured and was strong enough to curse the World"s will. The cursed soul another millennium to mature but Sukehime did not have that much time in her hand and could not wait a millennium for the Cursed soul to mature, under the limitations of the worlds will the Humankind of Crying Heaven"s can only have the max life span of 110 years no matter how strong their vitality is their body will return to earth and soul to the heavens. The only choice left for Sukehime was to help the cursed soul mature faster by providing it the negative energy it needs to mature, but could not just go and kill many mortals to gather negative energy because it will attract the attention of the world"s will, which was exactly similar to attempting sucide because ones world"s will feels threatened it will not hesitate to all means necessary to suppress or kill Sukehime.
In order to gather enough negative energy for the Cursed soul to mature early without getting noticed by the world"s will, Sukehime declared in honor of the martyrs of the corpse emperor war, to create a separate graveyard outside of the capital where all the martyrs will be buried. This way Sukehime with help of the array formation she had laid around the graveyard beforehand, she could gather all the negative energies from the corpse of the martyrs for maturing the cursed soul. With help of the array formation in the graveyard Sukehime was able to shorten the time required to mature the cursed soul by 10% but this was still not enough. As the solution of the problem Sukehime thought of the G.o.d stones and then she started to collect G.o.d stones from all over the world to help mature the cursed soul but due to the corrupt nature of G.o.d stones energy she had to stop using the G.o.d stones to mature the cursed soul. But with help of the G.o.d stones the Cursed soul was almost matured with still 35 years left to mature completely and thanks to the array in the graveyard it was reduced to 31 years. Since then the lamp was in a secret room under the graveyard gathering negative energy with help of the array. Since then almost 20 years have pa.s.sed and nearly 11 years is still left for the Cursed soul to completely mature.
When Sukehime fled the capital she thought n.o.body knew about the lamp and hence no one will try to find it but just in case someone stumbles on it by chance then he/she will be killed by the traps she has set around the lamp. Sukehime had high confidence in her trap mastery and the thought of losing the lamp never crossed her mind. There she was dumbfounded when she saw the Bearded old man take out the " Lamp of the d.a.m.ned ".
This was the second time something out of Sukehime"s calculation had happened during a battle, first was when she was almost a.s.sa.s.sinated by the Moon Dew Extreme Yin Poison. When that happened Sukehime actually praised 13 allied families . Sukehime knew when she was dealing with Flame Fiend a.s.sa.s.sins of 13 allied families will tried to a.s.sa.s.sinate her but she was not worried as she had confidence in her strength and wealth, but never in thousand year she would have guess that the 13 families will be able to think of or find the Bug tier Moon Dew Extreme Yin Poison to a.s.sa.s.sinated her.
But now the same thing had repeated the second time, Sukehime knew that someone was helping the 13 families from the shadows, someone so powerful that even the 13 families did not know that someone was helping them deal with Sukehime, that someone else was none other than the Crying Heaven world"s will.