Before the Sumeru Great Prohibition, Tao Qian looked at the young Hero called "Lin Bujue" before him.
Thinking it over, he decided not to reveal that layer of truth.
It's not that he had some unspeakable secret to hide, but it was irrelevant and no need to add further troubles.
What Lin Bujue had said was not mistaken, the original body indeed had died and could not possibly be brought back to life.
When Tao Qian was reborn, he didn't take away the original body's "Immortal Fate", nor did he steal the karma of the original body becoming a soul corpse because when the original body was young, not only was he too lazy to remember the "Seven Secret Chapters" in full, but he also completely forgot the only "Immortal Corpse Soul Returning" spell.
At the moment of decapitation, the original body wasn't thinking of survival, but attempting to use his last strength to awaken the populace.