Chapter 1372: Temptation

"Furthermore, your Green Lotus Jade Bone holds immense temptation for her, because the body she occupies belongs to someone else. If she were to possess your Jade Bone, her strength would advance by leaps and bounds."

"So, her target is me?" Liu Ruxi murmured, "If she hadn't accidentally revealed it, what would she have done to me once the time was ripe?"

"Do you really want to hear the truth?" Chen Yu glanced at Liu Ruxi.

"Yes, I want to hear the truth." Liu Ruxi nodded slightly; she wanted to know what exactly Xiaowei was planning.

"If the time were ripe, she would peel your skin and pull your tendons..."

Watching Liu Ruxi's complexion turn slightly pale, Chen Yu continued, "The thing she loves doing most is taking other people's skin as her own."

"Jiang Wei was likely truly our neighbor, but perhaps her body was a perfect fit for that thing, so she was targeted, and then her skin was forcibly peeled off and taken as her own. The skin you see now originally belonged to Jiang Wei."

"So if we continue to associate with each other, my fate will be the same, right?" Liu Ruxi looked up at Chen Yu.

"Yes, nine times out of ten, it will be like that." Chen Yu nodded.

"Are you sure you aren't trying to scare me or joking with me?" Liu Ruxi looked up at Chen Yu with a suspicious expression.

"At a time like this, do you think there is any need for me to joke with you?" Chen Yu said sternly.

Liu Ruxi couldn't help but shiver, which reminded her of the scenes in the movie *Painted Skin*, and Chen Yu seemed to see through her thoughts: "Don't doubt it, it is exactly the scene from *Painted Skin*, almost identical. The difference is that she uses your appearance directly."

"Moreover, these Dark Creatures, especially the intelligent ones, have the ability to inhabit others, but she cannot stop the skin from withering, so every once in a while, she needs to drink human blood to maintain her skin."

"Until this skin can no longer be maintained, she will look for various different targets, and these targets all have one thing in common: they are young and beautiful," Chen Yu said.

Liu Ruxi felt a chill; for the first time in her life, she felt that being beautiful was also a crime.

"Alright, don't say any more, I get it." Seeing that Chen Yu was about to continue, Liu Ruxi finally broke down and stopped him.

"I am testing your psychological endurance," Chen Yu chuckled, "because once you awaken, the path you walk will be completely different from the current one, so you need to adapt to these things in advance."

"I really thank you, thank your whole family." Liu Ruxi was speechless. Although she wasn't exactly timid, what Chen Yu said was like telling a ghost story, making her feel as if she were experiencing it herself.

So now she really didn't dare to listen any further; that immersive ghost story was more than she could bear.

Just at this moment, the two stepped forward into a stone chamber; this place seemed to be the nest of those things from before.

And in this nest, there were over a dozen giant webs, and hanging on the webs were people wrapped from head to toe in black spider silk.

These people had already become human-shaped husks; their body weight was only one-third of what it was when they were alive.

They were all hanging on a giant spider web, swaying slowly with the circulation of the air in the chamber.

And looking at their attire, they were the fishermen from the fishing village the two had come from. No wonder this place was listed as a forbidden area by them, because this place truly had some problems.

It was just that the fishermen didn't know the situation here and had a sense of awe toward nature, so they believed this sea area was where the Sea God lived.

They also firmly believed that by worshiping the Sea God, they would receive protection, little knowing that this place was actually the lair of Dark Creatures.

"Are these the fishermen?" Liu Ruxi couldn't help but feel a bit alarmed as she looked at the people hanging on the giant spider web in mid-air.

"Yes, there is a reason they don't dare to come to this place." Chen Yu looked at the people hanging in mid-air and couldn't help but sigh slightly. Now, he really didn't know how to express his feelings.

Waving his sword with his right hand, the dozen or so Dried Corpses on the spider web fell down. Chen Yu threw a Talisman over to cremate these Dried Corpses.

Even if they were reduced to ashes, it was better than being hung up there. If he had the chance later, Chen Yu would come back to perform rites for these people.

After finishing all this, Chen Yu and Liu Ruxi continued to walk forward.

However, after walking out of this area, among a pile of rubble, there was a person tightly bound by spider silk.

This person was not yet completely dead; he stared with wide eyes, looking around, and only when he saw Chen Yu and Liu Ruxi did he reveal a look of expectation.

His mouth was sealed by spider silk, and he couldn't speak at all.

"There is someone here." Liu Ruxi was startled and stopped in her tracks, "And he seems to still be alive."

"I see it." Chen Yu nodded. He walked forward and pointed with his right hand; Primordial Qi whistled out from his fingertips, instantly dissolving the spider web on this guy's body.

The black spider silk fell off his body, but when he saw his condition, even Chen Yu was shocked into silence.

Half of his body had been Demonized, oozing disgusting liquid, and a small half of his body was occupied by a spider, and this spider was gradually depriving him of his body.

Perhaps it wouldn't be long before his consciousness completely disappeared, and his body would be taken over by this spider through Possession.

Chen Yu's brows locked together. For the first time in his life, he felt that these Dark Creatures were so troublesome; they were almost pervasive.

"Save... save me." The man opened his mouth and looked at Chen Yu with difficulty.

"Is he still saveable?" Liu Ruxi could hardly bear to look at what was happening before her eyes; the scene was truly too cruel.

"There is no saving him. His body has been occupied by a Dark Creature, and half of his body is already Demonized. Saving him is harder than ascending to heaven. Rather than saving him, it would be more merciful to kill him with one sword strike."

Chen Yu sighed slightly. This man's willpower was strong enough; if it weren't, he would have long since been successfully subjected to Possession by this Dark Creature. After Possession, he would only turn into a monster that was neither human nor ghost.

Saving him was almost impossible; even with Chen Yu's medical skills, it was extremely difficult to save him.

"Do you have any last words?" Chen Yu walked to his side.

A look of disappointment appeared on the man's face. He knew that since Chen Yu said such things, he could basically be considered sentenced to death.