The once-noisy village in Xiuzhu Prefecture suddenly fell silent.
The flower pythons that had been coiled atop the bamboo roofs craned their heads to look this way. When they saw that all the Golden Corpses were controlled by the same person, they immediately slithered toward the deepest part of the village.
Beside the enormous bonfire, Zhong Yu looked at Lian Hua in confusion.
Hope rose in Zard's eyes. If the Heart-Binding Gu had truly worked, hadn't it saved an entire village? It didn't matter how it had happened; what mattered now was being able to restrain Zhong Yu. Otherwise, if this demon were unleashed, the whole world would likely descend into chaos.
Yet Zhong Yu's reaction seemed different from what everyone had imagined.
He muttered to himself, "Why am I feeling this inexplicable emotion? The only person in this world I care for is Little Yu, not you... My reluctance to hurt you is someone telling me that I ought to be reluctant."
Everyone was stunned.
When Lian Hua had fed Zhong Yu the Heart-Binding Gu, he had been unconscious. It was impossible for him to know of the Heart-Binding Gu's existence.
Yet now, Zhong Yu had clearly noticed something. He already knew that all this had been caused by an external force!
This Zhong Yu's spiritual will had broken through the shackles of rules with the bleakest emotions in the world, nearly reaching the threshold of merging with the world.
Even when someone in this world called his name, he could sense it.
How could a being that had lain dormant for who knew how long fail to sense the Heart-Binding Gu?!
The next moment, a gigantic Scarlet Hand manifested before Zhong Yu. Its dark-red phantom suddenly pierced through his own body and grabbed hold of something.
As it