Su Yun found Flower Fox and the others. Not long after, Li Muge came looking for them. This young Spirit Scholar had been quite warm before, but now he had become somewhat distant and restrained, politely inviting them upstairs.
Su Yun and Flower Fox were puzzled, unable to understand why he had changed like this.
"Could he have been possessed by a Human Demon?"
Flower Fox whispered to Su Yun, "The Whole Village Eats should have reached the city too."
Su Yun's heart tightened. "Second Brother, don't talk nonsense. This is the outskirts of Shuofang City. If The Whole Village Eats came here, it would go to the inner city, where there are more people."
Flower Fox said softly, "The moment we entered the city, snow started falling over Shuofang. Maybe the Human Demon has been beside us all along."
Su Yun felt his skin crawl as well. Fortunately, those monks also walked over, smiling at them with kind expressions.
Su Yun returned their smiles. The monks entered the Enclosure Tower as well, evidently staying here too. Li Muge said quietly, "These masters are teachers from our Wenchang Academy."
Su Yun was surprised. "Wenchang Academy is a temple?"
Li Muge shook his head. "Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism are Major Schools of Thought. Pretty much every academy and County School has them."
The Enclosure Tower was very run-down, and all sorts of people from every walk of life lived inside. On the way upstairs, Su Yun and the others encountered several Daoists and Confucian Scholars in the narrow stairwell, as well as a few vicious-looking people who clearly did not seem like decent folk.
They even ran into a miner, a leopard-headed monster. He had probably taken advantage of the chaos to flee inside just now. Frightened out of his wits,