Lin Yuan walked along, picking up the bodies of her fellow Merfolk clan members. Meng Zifei and Jin Sheng wanted to help, but she vehemently rejected their offer.
She didn't want them to be touched by the living anymore.
But the bodies of the Merfolk were far too many, and her two arms alone could not carry them all. She simply summoned her weapon, and began digging graves, burying them on the spot.
A short distance took the whole group nearly an entire half-night to travel.
Arriving at the dried-up lake, Meng Zifei cried out in surprise upon seeing a few survivors huddled together beneath an ancient tree.
Those few survivors were not the Cultivators who arrived later but the villagers from the Mountain Village, including the Chen siblings.
Initially shocked at how mortals could have survived such a perilous situation, Meng Zifei understood everything when he saw the familiar, huge figure behind the tree.
It was the Heroic Spirit Ghost Tiger...