tw: blood and gore
Shu Luan releases Wu Yun and lets out a guttural growl at Lan Tian's presence. Lan Tian steps into the water with this whip held high. Shu Luan advances towards him, and it's as if whatever illusion he was maintaining that allowed him to keep Shu Luan's appearance melts away. His slick hair starts falling away from his scalp in sickening clumps, his skin disintegrates like rice paper submersed in water, leaving behind reddened sinew and flesh that froths before disappearing to reveal the gleaming white bone beneath.
Shu Luan's bright golden eyes are the last remnant of humanity in the stripped bare skull, until they fall out, as if pushed from the inside into the lake water.
