Inside the dim tent.
Old Huang lay sprawled on the ground, his life hanging in the balance.
Engineer Hu stood beside him, his face as pale as a corpse, muttering something nonstop.
It was an awkward pronunciation, seemingly an ancient incantation, carrying a power that shook the soul!
But Sun Yuan's eyes suddenly widened. He understood it!
What the other man was saying resembled—or rather, was—the ancient script he had learned from the Classic of Mountains and Seas!
And this ancient language and script carried power!
"Eat jade bait and attain immortality! Eat jade bait and attain immortality! Eat jade bait and attain immortality!..."
Engineer Hu kept murmuring that line, but his intonation constantly shifted, giving the endlessly repeated words an extraordinarily terrifying effect.
Hiss!
Sun Yuan clutched his forehead and once again felt a needle-like pain.
He immediately understood how Old Huang had collapsed!
If he had not once experienced the illusion of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, he would probably have collapsed too after suddenly encountering this 'Curse Technique' attack!
Moreover, for some reason, the other man's 'incantation' was confined to the inside of the tent, so the people outside had not noticed anything unusual!
But even with Sun Yuan's slight resistance, the layers upon layers of whispers lingering incessantly beside his ears still drained all the strength from his body. He was so miserable that he was forced to half-kneel on the ground, watching helplessly as Engineer Hu advanced.
"Eat jade bait and attain immortality..."
Engineer Hu's eyes were bloodshot. He seemed to be chewing something as he walked toward Sun Yuan step by step, an expression of greed and hunger spreading across his face.
Sun Yuan suddenly felt a chill run through him.
In Engineer Hu's eyes, Sun Yuan seemed to be food, an elixir