"What... blood beasts and Walking Corpses? What are those?"
Wu Ziying strained to lift her head, staring in bewilderment at the young man before her, who was radiating demonic menace.
Su Yuan said calmly,
"See these blood-red spirit beasts in front of you, and Jin Hao, who's like a walking corpse I can control at will? Those are blood beasts and Walking Corpses."
"And I don't need to tell you how they came to be. Just look at them and you should understand."
Wu Ziying's gaze dropped. First she looked at the mindless beasts, reeking of blood and following Su Yuan's every command. Then she looked at Jin Hao, whose body was covered in white, murky fluid and whose eyes were a dead-fish gray.
"After I become a Walking Corpse, will my body be covered in that much white, murky fluid too?"
Wu Ziying asked timidly.
"Uh, no, not that."
The relief on the young woman's lovely face was plain to see.
But Su Yuan changed tack.
"However, after you become a Walking Corpse, I'll use some secret medicines whose effects you wouldn't want to know about to modify your body. Naturally, it'll change to some extent."
"But you'll already be dead by then, so you shouldn't feel any pain."
The young woman's delicate body shuddered again.
"After all that, which one do you want to become? Don't waste time. If the poison reaches your bones, your performance after the transformation will suffer."
"And don't even think about killing yourself or anything like that. The transformation will be complete before your soul logs out of the Tai Xu Illusion Realm."
Su Yuan urged her on.
Wu Ziying shook her head tremblingly.
"I... I don't want to become either one..."
"Could we do this instead? I'm willing to swear loyalty to