Gandonggon Mingwen was truly terrified out of his wits at that instant.
Because the hermit cultivator leader might still be hiding secrets, Gandonggon Mingwen had kept his eyes on him whenever he had no combat duties. He had even considered grabbing that hermit cultivator and fleeing if the worst came to pass—if the defensive line was breached, for instance.
Thus, when the hermit cultivator leader chose to fall into corruption, he witnessed the entire process.
He had never seen such a corruption before—at least, he had seen plenty of corruption these past few days, but no cultivator's transformation had ever been as natural as this hermit cultivator's.
Take the captain of the guard, who had fallen first. The instant he corrupted, he lost most of his lifespan—he was even shorter-lived than a Zheng Beast of the same level. At the same time, the captain of the guard also lost the power he had gained through ascetic cultivation.
But the hermit cultivator leader showed no signs of harm whatsoever in his corruption. He had not even leaked much vital energy.
That was deeply abnormal. The Ming Clan and Zheng Beasts stood at two utterly opposite extremes. If a Ming Clan member rashly used a Zheng Beast cultivation body, they would suffer immense damage.
As though he had been a Zheng Beast from the very beginning.
That thought left Gandonggon stunned for an instant.
And so, he could only watch helplessly as the hermit cultivator leader became one of the corrupted.
If his expression were translated into human language, it would surely be, "His eyes were so wide they were about to pop out."
Yet Wang Qi was entirely unaware of this.
In truth, this kind of cultivation was roughly the same in nature as "returning to righteousness through reversal." The key