The heads were not attached to the torso. They floated around the severed neck, black-red fluid seeping endlessly from the cut.
The five heads were all different.
One was dignified like a divine statue, one twisted like an evil ghost, and one was inhuman, its outline impossible to describe with any known form. The remaining two were blurry and unrecognizable.
All their eyes were closed.
The small girl stood beneath the platform, looking up.
The Worm of Knowledge curled up in her arms, completely still.
"The One Who Sleeps He who reaches"
A string of strange syllables came from its direction.
But clearly, the girl could not understand at all.
It also realized the problem. After a brief silence, it spoke again.
"You... have passed my trial."
Five different voices sounded at once.
The entire hall trembled. The dead inscriptions on the Dome quivered faintly in the sound waves, while gray-white powder rustled down from the grooves.
The small girl said nothing.
Nor was she afraid.
She merely stood there quietly, head tilted back, as if looking at something very, very tall.
The five heads did not stop spinning, but their attention had clearly shifted.
It saw what was in her arms.
"My sacrifice... has been eaten by a worm."
Its tone did not change, yet it carried a trace of chill.
The Worm of Knowledge trembled violently in the girl's arms. The Symbiotic Link had now been severed, but the Worm of Knowledge instinctively tried to contact Lu Yuan.
"Leave the worm, and I shall grant you a Blessing."
An Inscription condensed beneath the girl's feet, forming a blood-red ring.
Hand over the worm.
The headless torso's right hand slowly rose.
Blood-red light gathered in its palm.
The Spiral Inscriptions on the Dome, dormant for countless eras, lit up