Can I Be the Heroine for a Week?

The Flesh-and-Blood Immortal statue completed the final step of the sacrifice. Of the four aspects, the other three had long since merged into the bloody water. Only living people who represented the life aspect were rare.

The life aspect had to retain its humanity. It could not be influenced by the aroma of meat inside the apartment building, much less break the taboo by eating meat.

In all of Sishui Apartments, Gong Xi's grandma was now the only person who qualified as a life aspect. The reason she had survived this long was very likely that Situ An and the Flesh-and-Blood Immortal's will had deliberately protected her, intending to save her until the final moment as a sacrifice.

Of course, Gong Xi knew none of this. He still considered his grandma's existence his greatest secret.

With his mouth mutated, Gong Xi dove deep into the Blood Pool, stubbornly determined to rescue his grandma. Uncle Wu gave him a faintly pitying look, then climbed toward the Divine Heart above the Divine Statue.

Flesh and Blood could channel spirits. No one knew when Uncle Wu had been replaced. It might have been a few hours ago, when the anomaly event broke out, or even more than a decade earlier.

The Divine Statue did not resist Uncle Wu. With every step he climbed, another part of his body fused with the Ghost God Statue. By the time he reached the top and plucked off that heart, he would likely have merged with it completely.

Xuan Wen and Situ An's vicious soul moved swiftly, but it seemed they might already be too late.

Uncle Wu had anticipated this situation long ago. The Flesh-and-Blood Immortal knew the people and ghosts inside the building very well, but he had overlooked one ghost Gao Ming had brought