"Wait." Seeing Lu Xiaotian's movement, Che Da hurriedly called out to stop him.
"What? You two want to go back on your word?" Lu Xiaotian's eyes narrowed slightly. Ye Ziyu, Baili Fei, and Fu Yu had formed a triangle around the two fire corpses. If either made the slightest move, they would strike without hesitation. With their abilities, there was no way the fire corpses could escape Lu Xiaotian's grasp.
"No, no, Fellow Daoist Lu. We brothers belong to the fire corpse clan. Taking us in is different from taking in ordinary spirit birds or spirit beasts. There are also certain intricacies to refining this Three Corpse Wood."
Che Da knew that if anything went wrong, he and his brother would be annihilated in both body and spirit. The two fire corpses had already yielded to Lu Xiaotian, so naturally they didn't dare oppose him now. They carefully explained the finer points of refining the Three Corpse Wood. Only after listening did Lu Xiaotian realize that refining it involved many techniques. If it was done poorly and something went wrong while using the Three Corpse Wood to place a restriction on the fire corpses' Primordial Spirits, it could damage them at their roots, weakening their strength and causing harm to their Primordial Spirits that would be difficult to repair.
For the fire corpses, having their lives controlled by someone else, losing their freedom, and becoming little more than slaves was already pitiful enough. If their strength were seriously damaged on top of that, it would be adding frost to snow. With little strength and hardly any value to exploit, would Lu Xiaotian even spare them a glance?
Even after explaining everything in detail to Lu Xiaotian, the two fire corpses still felt uneasy. Lu Xiaotian cultivated orthodox human techniques and