The Corpse Lake has been completely boiled.
This is not an exaggeration or a metaphor, but an unadulterated fact.
The surface of the Corpse Lake churns with a tar-like fluid composed of decayed flesh, bone, and organ fragments, interwoven in dark brown and scarlet, sketching sulfur patterns similar to those before a volcanic eruption.
The high temperature continuously carbonizes the fat layer, forming countless fist-sized black floating islands that burst into a rain of ashes upon colliding with the shore rocks during the boiling blood waves. A semi-transparent blood membrane encases incompletely decomposed eyes and teeth, spiraling upwards like miniature planets under a blue light pulse, finally exploding into phosgene-like particles on the surface.
At this moment, Yun You is still three hundred meters away from the lake shore, yet her irises contract to needlepoints due to the intense light.
