"Has it... darkened?" Qian Cangyi unconsciously took a step back.
At this moment, the human-snake Bai Lian resembled the one he was familiar with: cunning, ruthless, and unscrupulous in the pursuit of his goals—a villain that could come straight out of a textbook.
Then, several scenes abruptly shifted. Human-snake Bai Lian had always hidden his desires. He continued to devour Resentful Ghosts to satiate his hunger, but he did so without being discovered by other ghosts. Even Xu Su only found out much later.
The current human-snake Bai Lian was extremely patient, preferring to leave Ghost Town to find lonely ghosts to feed on rather than expose himself when he saw no opportunity.
Inside a bluestone alley in Ghost Town.
The now fully-grown human-snake Bai Lian wrapped his tail around an ordinary-looking bluestone brick. This brick was no different in appearance from the others but had become an object of contention.