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With things laid out this plainly, Master held nothing back. "A corpse like that can no longer be called a demon corpse. It's a demon!

"It's shed the form of a corpse.

"Such a demon comes from a corpse, yet differs from one. The first stage is Lungless Transformation; the second, Scaled Tongue Transformation; the third, Horned Transformation.

"Stage by stage, I suppose it eventually takes the form of a dragon? I don't know. I've never seen one.

"That's just my guess from the way they change, but it shouldn't be far off.

"There are nine stages in all. After the ninth, it can no longer be called a demon. It should be called an Immortal.

"But they could have appeared anywhere else. Here is the one place they shouldn't have."

Master frowned as he spoke. Xu Feng listened, and the whole process sounded like something out of myth.

But in practice,

it wasn't that outrageous.

If anything, it was almost too mundane.

After all, he had seen a corpse after its second-stage transformation, and it looked no different from an ordinary person.

He had seen no supernatural powers. Its nails were longer, but they couldn't "slice through metal and jade," and it wasn't particularly strong.

In terms of destructive power,

it was even weaker than a zombie.

One smack with an iron shovel had nearly finished it.

Nor had its fighting strength shot up in any way that seemed related to its weight.

If Corpse Transformation led to this, it might even leave the corpse weaker.

As for the term Cicada-Shedding and Snake-Sloughing,

Xu Feng sensed that those four words summed up the entire process. It had to be a specific term. Perhaps he could even find it in some old text!

Unfortunately, he couldn't recall ever seeing it.