Then Jiang Chen turned to look at the girl pinned to the ground.
He had deliberately spared her life, but she did not seem to appreciate it. Her eyes were filled with terror and estrangement as she looked at him.
He walked toward her, step by step.
Xie Yujie began struggling frantically.
"No!"
"Stay away, monster... stay away... no, please..."
"A monster! There's a monster! Aaaah!!"
She screamed like someone possessed.
What she had just witnessed had left a psychological scar she would struggle to forget for the rest of her life.
A nine-headed monster, each pitch-black head hideous enough to give someone nightmares.
With a casual bite, it had easily devoured and killed the hall master she had considered incomparably powerful. With a sweep of one head, it had slaughtered swathes of her Dark Alliance comrades, leaving not even their bodies intact!
Bloodthirsty, cruel, evil.
Those were the deepest impressions Jiang Chen had left on Xie Yujie.
Seeing him draw closer,
the girl threw caution to the wind. She even tore one hand free, leaving a mass of flesh behind, just to crawl backward.
"Aaaah!!"
As she screamed, she ripped away the parts of her body that had been pinned down, leaving patches of flesh behind. Blood dripped everywhere. It was utterly horrific.
"Stop! You're tearing your wounds open. You'll die if you keep this up!"
Jiang Chen hurried forward to stop her dangerous behavior. He took out a Blood-Spirit Pill, thought for a moment, then broke off a quarter and stuffed it into her mouth.
Seeing Xie Yujie's injuries heal before his eyes,
he finally nodded in relief. "That's great."
Xie Yujie grew bewildered and uncertain. The relief on his face did not look feigned.
Could he really be a good person? Even though she had taken the