What was most likely to make a person fall?
The answer was happiness!
The physical pleasure triggered by happiness even had addictive qualities.
Yet happiness was often an invisible blade as well.
Even a burly succubus could not withstand it. Faced with happiness, one would also choose to keep the music playing and keep dancing.
And this method known as the "Seed of Corruption" worked by using the emotion of happiness to guide the target, making the target gradually give up resistance, until finally they completely let go of their bottom line, sank into happiness, and ultimately offered up everything.
The original name of this move had actually been the "Seed of Bliss." Only after it caused a large-scale disaster was the name of the method changed.
There were many methods that could trigger happiness, but the reason the Seed of Corruption had such a great reputation, and had even been specially recorded by the Holy Spirit Feathered Serpent's predecessor, was that the Seed of Corruption was extremely difficult to defend against and remove.
A person planted with the Seed of Corruption would go through three stages.
The first stage was "joy." At this stage, there was still a possibility of removing the Seed of Corruption. The key point was possibility, not certainty.
The second stage was "paradise." At this stage, even if the person planted with the Seed of Corruption still had a self, there was no longer any possibility of removing the Seed of Corruption through conventional means.
The third stage was "bliss." This was also the final stage. The Seed of Corruption would be fully mature, and at that point, even if a deity intervened, no medicine or stone could cure it. There would be almost no turning back.
The Seed of Corruption had once been a