When asked, Zhu Zhuqing nodded. Not only had she experienced that strange incident that day, but it had also been the day she and Mu Qian had made their relationship official.
It was such an important day that, of course, the young girl would never forget it.
"The situation these people are in is extremely similar to that of the commoner who underwent a change back then. The same thing must have happened to them," Mu Qian explained.
"But the change may have begun quite some time ago, and it's more advanced in their case. They can't be saved now."
He was puzzled. The three were already deep inside Death Canyon, near the Core Zone.
The density of Spirit Beasts in the surrounding area was already astonishing. How had these five newcomers, whose cultivation was no higher than Soul Grandmaster, made it this far without becoming food for the various Spirit Beasts?
Although their bodies were completely shrouded in that strange aura, he could still judge their former cultivation from the remnants of their Soul Power.
"The key question is, what triggers this condition?" Mu Qian couldn't make sense of it.
"Could it really be connected to Death Canyon, which seems to be a site of the Rakshasa God's inheritance?"
Looking toward the Core Zone of Death Canyon, Mu Qian wore a thoughtful expression.
Judging by the direction the five walking corpses were headed, they seemed intent on venturing deeper into the Core Zone of Death Canyon.
He wanted to find out what was behind all this. The original story had never mentioned anything so strange, so why had he encountered it again and again?
However, based on his sense of that strange aura, along with his deductions from the original story, he could be fairly certain it had nothing