"Impossible! You no longer have a physical body or a Baleful Infant, yet you're still alive? How is that possible?"
Faced with the skeleton standing up on its own, the four surviving cultivators present all wore looks of disbelief almost simultaneously. One of the ghost cultivators spoke urgently, his voice trembling slightly.
The ghost cultivator was not the only one trembling inwardly. Even Baili Lingkong and Zhou Bo refused to believe what they were seeing. They could clearly tell that the skeleton no longer contained a Baleful Infant and was already a genuine skeleton.
For such a skeleton to stand up—and for a voice to emerge from its skull despite having no flesh at all—was so bizarre that it would have been impossible to believe without seeing it firsthand.
For a skeleton to gain sentience, certain conditions had to be met. A spirit soul had to surround it.
Yet the four people before the skeleton could not sense the slightest trace of spirit-soul aura from it.
Just as the four revealed their shock, an incomparably vast corpse-baleful aura suddenly erupted from the skeleton's upright form. In the blink of an eye, thick baleful intent enveloped the skeleton completely.
"You were formed from baleful intent condensing into a soul. No wonder I couldn't sense any divine-soul aura from your skeleton. Hmph. Even if you didn't perish completely in that divine-soul self-detonation, your strength must have fallen drastically. You may not even be able to display half your former power. At a time like this, you still want to capture and kill us? Dream on."
Seeing the skeleton's transformation, Baili Lingkong's expression darkened, but a sharp glint flashed through his eyes. He immediately recalled a description from an ancient tome and shouted it out, rousing the other three.
A baleful corpse could