Once bitten by Corpse Poison, humans and beasts alike died gruesome deaths. Whether buried or not, they came "alive" at night, slow of foot yet savage and bloodthirsty, instinctively attacking and biting any living thing they saw.
At first, those still alive could not bear to hurt these relatives who had come "alive." But how could those mindless rotten corpses still be their relatives? They were life reapers, carriers that spread Corpse Poison.
As the situation spiraled out of control, people discovered that even blades, spears, and swords were useless. Once bitten by a rotten corpse, the victim soon became a rotten corpse as well.
Soon, more than half the humans and beasts in a settlement had undergone corpse transformation. Those not yet infected fled their homes in panic, only to discover that a restriction blocked their way. They could only raise their weapons and fight the rotten corpses that had once been their loved ones.
The rotten corpses were almost impossible to kill or destroy, and the spread of Corpse Poison found every opening. Within a few days, all the humans and beasts in a settlement had been infected and transformed into corpses, trapped within the restriction, biting and attacking one another without end.
Whenever the sun rose the next day, the rotten corpses stopped moving and fell asleep in dark places. The strong stench of rotting flesh on their bodies soon attracted swarms of rats to gnaw on them. Corpse Poison then entered the rats, making them crazed and bloodthirsty too.
Through covert observation, Mu Bai uncovered the entire process by which a settlement underwent corpse transformation. Although this was Beast Race territory, since he had encountered it, he intended to get to the bottom of it. As a Demon General of the Beast Race, Hu Meier had