After listening to Xiao Yu's account, everyone finally understood that the Great Fiend of the Nine Corpse Tower gradually broke down a person's mind through "contamination," eventually turning them into slaves.
But if that was the case, didn't the Great Fiend of the Nine Corpse Tower pay far too little to develop subordinates?
Using this aura to contaminate a hundred people.
Wouldn't the success rate be extremely high?
After all, not everyone had a firm psychological defense.
If so, wouldn't the Great Fiend possibly have a great many lackeys?
Or perhaps the cost of developing a slave was very high?
So I asked:
"Xiao Yu, does the Great Fiend have to pay a high price to develop a lackey, a slave under their control who obeys their orders?"
Xiao Yu nodded.
"Yes! The energy all radiates from within the Abyss Ghost Cave, and I guard it from inside.
"Although I can't intercept it completely, if it wants to release this refined evil aura to infect someone, the price it has to pay is enormous.
"It also needs the help of slaves outside!
"Compared to infecting a ghost, it's several times more difficult.
"And the Great Fiend's slaves tend to hide very well.
"After falling, they use their own methods to expand their influence.
"The most representative example at present is Carefree Tower.
"The ghostly evils beneath Carefree Tower basically do not carry the refined aura of the Great Fiend.
"Only a small number of specific beings possess the Great Fiend's refined aura."
So that was it. If that was the case,
then those developed into the Great Fiend's slaves, those whose eyes had mutated, were either exceptionally powerful experts or newcomers with tremendous potential?
Or they had some particular identity...
Otherwise, according to Xiao Yu, the cost of randomly developing