The Difference Between Illusion and Reality
As he dodged the steel beam, he instinctively glanced at the ground. He had just thought Zhou Ning was hiding beneath her hair. In the blink of an eye, she had moved from in front of him to behind him, then from behind him to above him. Her movements were downright bizarre.
After a pause, he took out the Fairy Tale Book again. Once he started telling a story, the Hair Serpents attacking him froze once more. Then Zhou Ning came leaping down from above, carrying a steel beam several meters long, her eyes closed as she swung it wildly!
Xu Huo seized an opening and kicked the beam away, then reached out to hold her shoulder, hoping to calm her down. But as soon as his hand touched her clothes, something bit him. He focused his eyes and saw several finger-thick Hair Serpents poking out of her collar. Cracked patterns had also appeared on her skin.
"Zhou Ning!" he shouted.
Zhou Ning came to her senses. When she turned and saw him, she recoiled in fright and hurriedly said, "Close your book first!"
The Fairy Tale Book's effect vanished. Zhou Ning let out a long breath and made the Hair Serpents retreat. She touched her painful wound before saying, "I lost again."
"What happened just now?" Xu Huo asked.
"What?" Zhou Ning seemed a little dazed. "Was something wrong just now?"
"Are you conscious when you use your Ability?" Xu Huo pointed at her shoulder and eyes. "Didn't you notice anything unusual about your body while using it?"
Looking confused, Zhou Ning felt around, then pulled open her clothes and discovered that the skin on her shoulder had split into patterns like snake scales. But as she examined it, her skin began to