Looking at the young woman sleeping before him, Shen Yu felt his chest grow heavy. He sighed and asked Nancy.
'Is there any problem with her?'
[A few, but I'll cleanse them. She will need some time to wake up, though, as her body has been in this state for more than fifty thousand years.]
Noticing something in her words, Shen Yu asked, 'Wait! If she's been sealed here all these years, how did that being use her ability to snatch bodies outside?'
[No clue about that. The Rune Formation wasn't damaged at all, so it couldn't have escaped either. It's weird, but Chaos Magic of Corruption has always been like this.]
Deciding to deal with it later, Shen Yu said, 'Alright! Cleanse her and send her to the Sect.'
[Gotcha!]
Shen Yu didn't feel like leaving her here; his heart didn't allow it. Not to mention, she was very important in uncovering the mystery behind all of this.
He lightly tapped her forehead, then withdrew. Although not knowing what he was doing, Zhuge Tian followed his lead and backed away from the coffin.
Rubbing his chin, Shen Yu said, "Now, we need to somehow find that being, because I'm sure it will take revenge once it recovers."
[Pretty sure it will. The corruption must have already gotten to its head.]
Zhuge Tian sighed, his body fluctuating slightly. He said, "I am sorry. All those sacrifices and everything were in vain. Now, we have left this to your generation and new world."
Shen Yu waved his hand, and the coffin disappeared from the Golden Hall. The mural itself also began to tremble, showing signs of collapsing.
As he walked toward the corridor, which had once again appeared in its likely original place, he spoke in a somber voice. "Don't say things like that. If you hadn't done that, we wouldn't be alive. There would have been no new world whatsoever."
And how could someone easily doubt something so common?
That was why he had missed such a big detail.
'Of course, they need some origin. Nancy, you said Chaos Magic of Corruption, right? I have a theory about it—am I right?'
[Yup, you're right on that. I think so, based on the information we have. Chaos Magic of Corruption is called that for a reason; anyone wielding it is bound to suffer corruption from Outer Deities, primarily their hunger.]
Shen Yu nodded, having already guessed as much due to his own mother's origin.
[We just saw how that being affected that woman. Its presence—or, should I say, the presence of Chaos Magic of Corruption—changed her body and made it similar to that of a Spiritual Creature.]
'She's practically one of them.'
[Yup. That old man said the being devoured and consumed everything, right? That "everything" includes humans and Spiritual Creatures alike. Corrupting humans isn't that easy for someone so weak, but Spiritual Creatures are different.]
He sighed, realizing the information was exactly as he'd thought.
[I don't know why that being released the things it had eaten, but it did. Spiritual Creatures were among them, and they populated the world at a rapid rate. They had many obvious advantages over humans, like numbers, power, and all.]
'They were corrupted, so they also gained otherworldly abilities like the Skinwalker has. Spiritual Creatures are known for that. Not only this, but they also inherited the hunger from corruption, which makes them attack human souls.'
[Yup, you're right on everything. I have to say, that creature really thought things out. I don't even know how it managed to stay rational for so long, even after being corrupted.]
Shen Yu raised his head and thought.
'But it won't go down easily, so what is it planning?'