Eyes squeezed shut, Su Xiaoxiao remained dumbly in place. Uneasiness flashed across her face, then was replaced by a general sense of not knowing what to do with herself. Regardless, this wasn’t what a dead person, what a corpse was supposed to look like.

“Xiaoxiao, are we not in the skydragon tomb anymore?” Diexi asked again when the poison doctor didn’t respond.

Su Xiaoxiao still radiated discomfort, and her tender hands twisted and turned the hem of her dress.

“She can speak?” Lu Yun’s eyes widened and he paused in the midst of condensing a talisman in his hand.

“She can… oof!” Diexi grunted with pain as a gray talisman stinking of putrid decay made its way out of her body, attracted by the one in Lu Yun’s hand. “Is it out?”

Joy crossed her face; this Zombification Talisman had bedeviled her for quite some time. In fact, she’d been on the cusp of completing her evolution to a living being, but the talisman had negated all of her efforts.

Lu Yun nodded slightly and ignited a flicker of hellfire, reducing the talisman to ashes.

As its name implied, a Zombification Talisman could zombify a living...