"So that was it. No wonder the transformation ended early. It turned out it wasn't that the Thunder Soul Emperor Zombie had completed its transformation, but that it still needed one final catalyst to finish it."
That so-called catalyst was the Death God Messenger—or rather, the Death God Messenger's final breath.
After seizing the Thunder Soul Emperor Zombie's body, Huo Yuhao erased its soul and consciousness. Then he began examining its body, only to discover the secrets produced during the Thunder Soul Emperor Zombie's transformation, secrets even it had not known about.
In truth, although the previous Thunder Soul Emperor Zombie had looked as if it had already come back to life, in reality, to be precise, it should have been called a living dead state.
The Thunder Soul Emperor Zombie had absorbed a massive amount of Death Qi and corpse qi, but had no Life Qi to replenish it. Its original Life Qi had been completely worn away. So even though the Thunder Soul Emperor Zombie had regained consciousness and possessed a new soul, it could not "rise from the dead."
In other words, it could not move freely.
It had seemed like sitting on that ruined throne was an act of showing off, but in reality, it simply could not stand up at all.
Otherwise, with the Thunder Soul Emperor Zombie's strength, why would it have needed to deceive and ambush the Death God Messenger? It could have just taken the initiative and killed its way out, and the Death God Messenger would not have been able to escape.
Although the Death God Messenger also had a zombie body, as a Hairy Corpse, his body naturally contained a breath of "Life Qi," an aura with vitality.
And what the Thunder Soul Emperor Zombie needed was precisely that breath