As Gu Xi poured his mana in, the shell serving as the coffin began to change color.
The shell had originally been golden yellow all over, with flame patterns across its surface and many blue gems inlaid into it.
But now the shell's appearance had changed completely. It was pitch-black from end to end, with the same flame patterns across its surface, except all the flames had become matte black markings. The blue sapphires embedded in it had now turned into thumb-sized skulls and bubbles.
As blue flames flashed one by one in the eyes of the skulls on the shell's surface, the shell Gu Xi had just closed opened again.
The method before him was something Gu Xi was using for the first time: placing a corpse inside a coffin, infusing it with undead power, and letting the body transform on its own.
This counted as a fairly classic method of handling corpses. Many zombies transformed this way by themselves.
However, this method came with a certain degree of unpredictability.
Necromancers rarely used this method.
After all, unpredictability was a problem for a Necromancer.
But right now, Gu Xi had no room to consider that much.
In Gu Xi's eyes, gambling on one thing was still gambling, and adding everything in was also gambling, so he might as well make the bet bigger.
He handed over everything, all of it, and waited to see what he would get in the end.
As the lid of the shell opened, a very strange humanoid figure walked out from inside.
The reason it was called strange was entirely because its body was translucent in color.
It looked like colored lights had been placed inside an ice sculpture.
It was around one meter seventy tall. If one ignored the color, its appearance was