The night was thick, like dark, icy blood seeping from a rotting corpse and winding across heaven and earth. The moon hovered alone over the Star Dou Great Forest, its dim light like resentful tears at the corner of a woman's eyes. Darkness blurred the edges of towering trees, making them look from afar like mangled faces. In the thin, drizzling mist of night, everything was damp, as though the skins of trees and soil had begun to fester. A suffocating smell filled the air.
Trees crisscrossed one another, moonlight spilling through their gaps in scattered flecks of starlight. Long, distant cries occasionally drifted over, while pairs of eerie green eyes lurked behind the undergrowth.
More than a hundred meters long, the Myriad-Foot Centipede coiled its entire body at the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, its upper body rearing upright. An alluring yet terrifying aura enveloped it. The wind seemed to carry the stench of blood, and a chill pierced flesh and stabbed into bone, as though cold imprisoned for a thousand years had suddenly been released, making one shudder before the mind could even think.
The Myriad-Foot Centipede stared fixedly at the graceful figure approaching step by step. Every nerve in its body was taut; it dared not let its guard slip.
Ever since breaking through its barrier and advancing to a ten-thousand-year fierce beast, this was the first woman it had encountered who inspired fear from the depths of its heart!
The cat girl Duoduo strolled through the woods amid swirling mist, her long, white-gauze dress floating in the air. Though such a dress should have hindered her movements, it did nothing to impede her steps, instead lending her an otherworldly elegance. Unfortunately, she wore the Stone Mask. That hideous, terrifying mask concealed her peerless beauty