The corpses wore blank expressions and moved stiffly, like a crowd of puppets on strings.
Even after they climbed back up.
Their bodies remained rotten, without the slightest trace of sinister energy spilling out, as though they were nothing more than a crowd of moving corpses.
But at that moment.
Every hair on Lin Youwei's body stood on end. She sensed an immense threat from these eerie corpses!
As though any one of them.
Would be enough to kill her!
"They can move without any resentful energy, their faces are blank, and they show no emotional fluctuations whatsoever. These aren't signs of turning into ghosts or corpse ghosts at all."
"What exactly are they?"
"Long-held wishes accumulate, humanity fades, the corpse returns to life, yet no soul can be seen. Could this... could this be..."
Lin Youwei muttered to herself. Her expression suddenly turned extremely grim, and even her voice began to tremble.
"Baleful Corpses!?"
A terrifying term came to mind.
A horrifying incident had once erupted in the Yuzhong Region. That time, the Nine Provinces had nearly failed to suppress the spread of public discussion.
That incident had involved Baleful Corpses.
After a person died, their resentment lingered, but under certain special circumstances, they did not become a ghost. Their obsession and remnant soul were trapped within their corpse, without the slightest trace leaking out, slowly condensing into Yin Baleful Qi.
That was how a Baleful Corpse formed.
Many factors could cause this. For example, a powerful ghost might keep a corpse harboring resentment beside it all day long, with the external Yin Qi suppressing the soul and preventing it from leaving the body.
In fact, the Dead Infant Jiang Chen had seized earlier had been a type of Baleful Corpse.
It was just that he lacked the wealth