"Charm Empress!"
Such a bizarre occurrence happening to Zhou You shocked everyone present; it was truly horrifying beyond belief.
The surrounding grandmasters had already been strung taut with nerves. At the sight, their hackles rose.
What a cruel method—to peel the entire sheet of skin from someone's back. That tearing agony of flesh and blood could literally hurt a person to death.
The atmosphere within the Ice Extreme Earth Lung Mansion turned tense!
"Wait, it wasn't me!"
The Great Prince spoke softly, then asked Zhou You, "Tell them, wasn't it?"
As the victim, Zhou You answered truthfully, "It wasn't the Charm Empress. It was..."
He had long guessed that the root of this sudden incident lay in that Starving Tiger Painting; the skin on his back had merely been collateral damage.
That elder who had seemed to be Han Yushou back then was now taking back the Starving Tiger Painting he had left behind. He likely had not expected that, through a twist of fate, Zhou You would fuse the Starving Tiger Painting into the surface of his body, accidentally achieving the effect of a body tattoo.
As a result, removing the Starving Tiger Painting also tore away a large chunk of flesh. The pain was comparable to death by a thousand cuts.
But why?
Something Zhou You could not understand was happening elsewhere in Putuo Prefecture.
The Starving Tiger Painting clung to a piece of grandmaster-level human skin as it flew through the air and landed before the Western Hall Master.
"Hmm, this human skin is rather interesting!"
Chaluo Zha, concealed within the stag's chest, was about to receive the Starving Tiger Painting when the Western Hall Master unexpectedly beckoned and intercepted it midway.
"Hall Master, this is an emergency! Save me!"
The Western Hall Master said apologetically, "I