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The terrifying humanoid creatures on the cliff wall gave everyone a huge fright, utterly overturning everything they thought they knew.
He Feng could not help asking, "What are these things?"
Qingli said flatly, "I don't know what they are either, but they were all made by your human ancestors. It seems they buried people born at yin hours alive within these walls, then inscribed formation patterns over them.
"The demonic qi of Old Barkskin and me was continuously drawn out by those Soul-Locking Chains and the formation. In the end, to keep the demonic qi from flowing back into our bodies, they made these things to passively absorb it.
"Now you've seen it yourselves. They were originally filled with sky-reaching resentment, and after absorbing Old Barkskin's and my demonic qi, they turned into monsters. Calling them corpse demons seems rather fitting.
"Because they were suppressed by the formation, these corpse demons could normally only passively absorb demonic qi and could not move. But just now, your companion pulled out the Blood-Congealing Sword and damaged the formation. And now, well, the corpse demons have been released.
"Of course, you needn't worry. These things have no intelligence whatsoever. They only instinctively pounce on and kill the living. Once all of you die here, they'll quiet down and won't go out to hurt anyone.
"Still, your human ancestors were quite ruthless. Just to suppress the two of us—oh, no, mainly to suppress Old Barkskin. I was merely caught up in it.
"Just to suppress him alone, did your human ancestors kill several hundred, or perhaps several thousand, people born at yin hours? Tsk tsk, what hard hearts."
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