"So, Ansu, do you have a way to deal with spiritual corruption?"
Lu Cang asked silently in his heart.
"A way to deal with it? Heh... I have plenty of ways myself."
"But none of them would be of any use to this young lady."
"Spiritual corruption all comes from the Foul Source Nest. Once someone is caught in its grasp, it will cling to them for the rest of their life."
"I once willingly exposed myself to spiritual corruption."
"Heh, it was a truly peculiar feeling."
"After becoming corrupted, I didn't feel the slightest bit abnormal. I simply thought everything was my own idea, that everything was the product of my own will. Even when I did things completely at odds with what I'd originally wanted, nothing felt wrong."
"I just felt that my thoughts were perfectly natural and absolutely correct."
"If you don't fall into a painful struggle, but instead follow that feeling and think along with it, it's an incredibly satisfying and lucid experience."
"Truth be told, it might not even be a bad thing."
Ansu recalled the life in which he had been infected by the Foul Source Nest. In that life... he had killed countless innocent people.
He had used countless lives for experiments and committed all manner of heinous atrocities...
But.
Truthfully, that wasn't all that different from what he had done in his previous lives.
Ansu was the Death Controller. He had never been a good person to begin with, and the corruption of the Foul Source Nest couldn't make him much worse.
The Foul Source Nest's corruption essentially brought people closer to their origins and helped them climb the path of the class-changer.
It wasn't really about indiscriminate killing.
It made people disregard their original principles and moral boundaries.
But Ansu himself