"What? The Snake Lord has joined forces with humans? Can the Snake Tribe really stomach an alliance through marriage?"

"And with the Su Family, no less? Must be coveting the Su Family's Spiritual Eye, thinking it can ascend to a True Dragon, right?"

"Can we trust what this woman says? She claims the monster in the lake is the Snake Lord's offspring, but don't forget, there are rumors that the Snake Lord's disappearance was the result of a plot by the Su Family."

These Mystic Sect members would be considered expert healers in ordinary places, but compared to the Lin and Zhang families, they were merely small fry.

The information they had about Yu Longting was not extensive.

It was mostly speculative hearsay...

Su Qiang's lips curled into a smile as she waved her sleeves.

Countless black rats surged from all directions towards the mucky, bone-filled lake. "I will summon the Snake Lord's child from the lake, and once everyone has seen it, you will know that everything I've said is true."

"So that long hair on the Corpse Rice was actually rat fur." I had immense admiration for Granny Wu's rice divination technique in my heart.

The Corpse Rice corresponded to the corpses in the lake, and the black hair on it corresponded to these black rats.

And the fact that Su Qiang could still control rats without her Rat Immortal Robe came as a complete surprise to me...

Wu Zhenglin happened to overhear my muttering and asked me while looking around vigilantly, "Did you come to my house looking for me and saw my granny leave the house before divining with the rice?"

"Yes, I was quite worried when you all suddenly became unreachable," I said.

Wu Zhenglin touched his ear sheepishly, "My phone fell into the mud... Ouch, ah~ what... the heck is that~ Granny, I'm scared~ This monster is too frightening!"

The rats were relatively light and small in size.

When they fell into the mud, not all of them sank; only three to five less clever ones got trapped.

The majority of the rest scampered chaotically on the mud.

A piece of deep gray, very thick lotus leaf slowly rose to the surface of the mud.

For some reason, my heart suddenly hurt, and I felt a stimulus to my tear glands.

My vision blurred as I stared at that eerie lotus leaf, and it seemed to represent the past, the persistent pain of what I had lost.

One drop, two drops, three drops, four... Without my control, large tears fell from my eyes and shattered.

Why am I so sad?

The lotus leaf, bearing black vapor, rose higher and higher, revealing the face of a small head with green skin and sharp fangs, no older in appearance than a four or five-year-old child.

Though it looked so ugly and fierce, I somehow saw in that twisted visage.

A face identical to Dumpling's, at least before it had been affected by the Demonic Qi, it bore an exact resemblance to Dumpling.

"Damn, this thing looks... painfully hideous," Yu Rongling grimaced with disgust and hid behind Yun Hao.

Yun Hao pursed his lips, glanced at me with tear-filled eyes, stretched out his hand, but then slowly retracted it, "You just aren't seeing past the facade to its essence; it actually looks quite delicate."

The lotus leaf on the boy's head was not actually a lotus leaf.

It was... a mutated suction pad growing out of its head, covered with green blood vessels resembling meridian lines, not the veins of a lotus leaf, grotesque enough to make a person nauseous.

In the mud, it opened its large, gaping mouth.

Its mouth was filled with backward-growing fangs, sharp and crisscrossed, looking very terrifying.

As it sucked forcefully, some mud and the rats were drawn into its mouth.

After swallowing thousands of rats into its stomach, its body completely emerged from the mud.

The lower half was a serpent's tail, its scales covered in mud, making its color indiscernible.

At the site of its severed limb, grubs were wriggling, and with a pop, bone began to grow from the stump.

Then, black vapor surged upwards, and a layer of new skin enveloped the white bone...

This creature was actually regenerating its lost limb.

Bloody, greedy eyes lazily fell upon everyone on the shore, unmistakably regarding us all as its next meal.

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