The reading continued.
This might have been the longest Su Na had ever spent reading a Magic Book. More than ten hours had passed, and the spreading waters below had extended over a kilometer in every direction.
Little Dara had been swallowed by the dark shadows, leaving not even her silhouette visible. Her current situation was unclear.
As for Su Na...
Her left arm, which she had been using to turn the pages, fell off from the upper arm and dropped into the Dissolution Pool below. Only her torso remained. Her skin dripped like wax, and her flesh slid down with it, leaving her utterly unrecognizable. Her Qi and Blood... had fallen to just over thirty, a dangerously low level.
Yang Yi drank another bottle of Proliferative Potion. Although repeated use within a short period would lower his base Constitution, a little training would raise that stat again. This was no time to worry about such things.
The potion's effects, on the other hand...
The Proliferative Potion barely had any healing effect left.
Su Na's Qi and Blood continued to fall slowly, approaching the threshold of death, but she herself remained unaware and kept reading. The pages turned automatically, as though some special force were pushing them along.
Yang Yi was considering whether to interrupt the reading when Su Na suddenly spoke, her voice reaching him through the Mind Network.
"I suddenly can't see. Help me, I'm almost done!"
Su Na sounded urgent because her only remaining eye, her right, had dissolved too, leaving her blind. Yet a quarter of the book remained.
"I'll read. You work on understanding it!"
Without hesitation, Yang Yi took over as Su Na's eyes and began looking through the book, allowing the reading to continue.
His brain felt both painful and itchy, as though