Cave of Desire

The passage was pitch-black. Looking in from outside, they could see nothing at all.

However, Bai Zhi's attention was not on the dark passage ahead, but on Dead Zero's right hand.

After the passage opened, black cracks spread wildly across her palm like a spiderweb from the strange pattern in the center of her right hand.

Like land struck by an extreme drought, the young girl's skin cracked inch by inch. The fissures rapidly spread from her palm to her wrist, then raced upward along her elbow.

As if she had expected this all along, the moment the cracks began climbing up her wrist, she gripped the Night Blade in her left hand and swung it down at her own right arm without hesitation... Bai Zhi stopped her in time.

"Can you stop being so brutal to yourself?"

Giving her an irritated glare, Bai Zhi cut a wound across his own left palm with the blade, then reached out and grabbed the young girl's right wrist.

—The injury on his left hand was at the long gash on his arm, which was also where he had lost feeling. The rest was unaffected.

"Wait, that's highly concentrated Desire Poison. Only someone like me, whose desires have been stripped away, can—"

Sensing the hand gripping her right wrist, the young girl's expression changed instantly. She hurriedly tried to shake it off in panic.

But before she could, an arm directly pulled her into a warm embrace, and warm breath brushed against her ear.

"Relax, I'm fine. I know what I'm doing."

Sensing her struggle, Bai Zhi frowned slightly and held the young girl in his arms tighter, resting his chin on her shoulder as he lowered his eyes to look at his left hand.

"And don't move."

Using the cut in his