"I... I am..."
The girl lowered her head and spoke indistinctly. Just as Sun Hang was starting to grow impatient, she suddenly spun around and tried to flee again.
When the girl was dragged back by the hyphae for the second time, she was clearly much more obedient.
"You're an anomaly, not a human, right?" Sun Hang asked, pinning the girl against the cold metal pipe wall with one foot on her back.
The girl shifted her head by the tiniest margin, barely managing a nod. The delicate skin on her cheek scraped against the rough metal pipe wall, adding several more bloody marks.
"Why aren't you turning into that form from earlier and escaping?" Sun Hang asked again. "Can you freely switch between a human body and a spirit form?"
"There... are limits... only... once a day..." Sun Hang seemed to be pressing on her lungs, making it exceptionally difficult for the girl to breathe. She could barely speak clearly.
Seeing this, Sun Hang lowered his foot from the girl and instead bound her in a tortoise-shell tie with Tai Sui Hyphae as thick as fingers. He attached the other end to the top of the pipe, suspending her entire body in midair.
"Since you're an anomaly, where did this human body come from?" Sun Hang continued. "Don't tell me anomalies are like the spirits in those old supernatural tales now—cultivating to a certain point and taking human form? Say, if you wanted to seek recognition from me, would you need me to name you?"
The girl hanging in midair stared at Sun Hang in terror, unable to say a word.
"To be fair, this skin of yours isn't bad. It's just missing a little something." Sun Hang went on to himself. "If you came to seek recognition from