Bab 139: Chapter 139: Going Home 28

"Since it is hanged, how can it still go out and eat people and livestock?" I asked again, voicing the doubts in my heart. According to what Master said, if it's been hanged all along, wouldn't it be immobile? Then how could it be wreaking havoc in the village?"

"If it were just an ordinary animated corpse, it definitely couldn't be harming the village, but as I mentioned earlier, it has become a demon. As such, it can move about freely. Although it has been around for some years, it hasn't grown powerful enough to leave the place where it's hanged; otherwise, it would no longer be here and its whereabouts would be unknown."