Bubbles drifted eerily.
The eel's corpse, stretching dozens of zhang, lay sprawled across the riverbed.
Fist raised its dual claws high, gripping a wooden pillar one zhang long and using it to prop the eel's enormous jaws open from above and below. The instant those huge jaws opened and closed, a thick stench of fish gushed from within.
Sharp fangs interlocked, its savage visage fully exposed.
Liang Qu covered his nose and mouth and waved a hand. The currents beneath the water circulated, swiftly dispersing the fishy reek.
Thankfully, it was winter. If it had been summer, who knew what his stomach would have turned into.
Golden Eye ignited.
A vast fish school turned into a fish tornado and poured into the corpse's mouth to begin cleaning it out.
To ordinary people, a corpse was certainly unable to move.
But to Liang Qu, it was another matter entirely.
The dead were even more useful than the living!
"Awei!"
The blue bracelet around his wrist loosened and swelled in the wind until it was the size of a belt.
Awei opened and closed its mouthpiece, biting through the eel's flesh and burrowing into its brain, where it spouted poison mist.
Yellow Underworld Poison Water! Yellow water dissolved flesh and scattered spiritual vitality; underworld water drew upon the heaven and earth's baleful malice, controlling and immobilizing corpses!
Controlling a powerful corpse carried a risk of failure and came with a time limit.
Yet Awei was no longer what it had once been. In terms of realm alone, it surpassed the dead eel Demon Beast, so there was no possibility of failure.
Pale purple patterns, like veins, spread from the eel corpse's head, permeating deep within.
As he watched, Old Toad propped up his chin and paced circles around the corpse.
"Growing larger