In the room with the wolf's head hanging inside, Chang Xu swung the black [Life Severer] so fast it left afterimages, its sharp scythe harvesting wave after wave of snakes surging toward him and Liu Yuhan.
Cold flashes and blood intertwined. With every swing, more than a dozen snake heads fell to the ground, their cuts clean and even. The exposed muscle tissue squirmed unwillingly before death, only to stiffen helplessly.
Icy snake blood splattered across Chang Xu's cheeks, making his pale face look grim and terrifying. More blood seeped into his black clothes, its color invisible as it merely soaked the fabric into a sticky mess.
Liu Yuhan sat behind him, gripping her pen as she scribbled furiously in the [Eerie Tale Notebook]. Inky lines followed her pen of their own accord, gathering and separating before finally leaving behind two words—
[Desire] and [Divine Blood].
As if she had realized something, she drew a dagger and slashed her arm. Blood streamed down in rivulets, linking with her wrist like the veins of the earth.
As though drawn by the scent of blood, every snake and rat instantly turned around and lunged toward the blood trails covering the ground with utter frenzy.
Liu Yuhan held her breath and watched the movement on the floor without blinking.
The snakes and rats petrified at a speed visible to the naked eye. The instant they were about to touch the pool of blood, they all turned into stone statues, frozen in the poses they had held a second before.
It worked. Just as expected...
Liu Yuhan let out a breath and spoke rapidly. "I understand now. In this Instance, desire is like Medusa's eyes—it turns living beings to stone.
"Each of us had our desires awakened by the Sphinx. The countdown has already