"Reviving a Corpse"

That single glance secretly alarmed you. You had not expected Han Jing's condition to be so dire.

Perhaps even the one who had released it did not know that this Corpse Qi, obtained by a stroke of chance, had an extraordinarily sinister origin. It had been left behind by an evil demon with the strength of a Quasi-Emperor, and it still contained a fragment of his will.

Even Han Jing, a powerhouse of the Immortal King Second Realm, found it exceedingly thorny afterward. The more he confronted this Corpse Qi, the more frightened he became.

From his "exchange" with the Corpse Qi, he understood that if he mishandled it, that evil demon might use his body to revive a corpse's soul and return to the world!

For that very reason, the situation where the worst outcome had merely been abandoning his fleshly body, allowing Han Jing to resolve the problem, no longer existed.

He had already lost his path of retreat. He knew that if he abandoned his body, his true spirit might still have a slim chance of escaping, but the other seventeen True Immortals present would all die.

Such a supply of nourishment greatly increased the likelihood of that evil demon successfully reviving through a corpse. Thus, Han Jing did not choose to let his true spirit flee alone, but instead sought to fight the Corpse Qi.

When you met Han Jing, his goal had, in a sense, already succeeded. He had successfully erased that wisp of will within the Corpse Qi.

Yet unfortunately, in order to erase the lingering will within the Corpse Qi, more than half of Han Jing's body had already been filled with Killing Intent and death Qi. Even his true spirit had not escaped unscathed.

Although the death Qi and Killing Intent became