The Red Hair Jiangshi had been effective and unsettling.
Han Yu had kept several of those for further study.
Then there was the Caustic Boil Jiangshi.
That one had been unpleasant even by his standards.
Large, swollen boils covered its surface, each one filled with corrosive fluid. When ruptured, they released a substance capable of melting through armor and flesh alike. The difficulty lay in controlling the release. Too much pressure, and the entire body destabilized. Too little, and the effect was negligible.
He had refined the design to a usable state.
Barely.
And then…
His thoughts returned to the most intriguing case.
The Cursed Phantasm Jiangshi.
He frowned slightly.
That creation had not been intentional.
The conditions that led to its formation remained unclear. A slight variation in curse energy, a fluctuation in the blood composition, perhaps even an unnoticed interference from external Qi. Whatever the cause, the result had been extraordinary.
And dangerous.
