Hearing the words of the Three Corpses, Si Ren felt his composure entirely collapse. It was not that he feared the Underworld, nor was he cowed by the threats of the Three Corpses; rather, it was the realization that the confirmed patients in the quarantine zones had somehow become a force of the Underworld.
Based on the information gathered so far, the millions of infected patients in the quarantine zones had been engineered by the Demon Clan. Their objective was twofold: to drastically reduce the human population while turning ordinary citizens against the upper echelons.
Yet Si Ren had never expected the Emperor of Earth to have a hand in this as well. The God of Desire's spore virus allowed spore-insects to control the mental connection of the populace. At this stage, a person's soul remained sealed within their body; judging by their physiological state, they were merely poisoned and not yet dead—much like vegetative patients.
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