City Wall

The half of a woman's corpse lying beside the foul-smelling well trembled faintly. The eyeballs that had fallen from her sockets swayed gently with the tremors.

Suddenly, the woman's body moved. After a few breaths, as though sensing something, the rats covered in putrid fluid crawled out of her body one after another and fled in every direction.

Before long, Li Huowang's feet, approaching from afar, stepped over the woman's head and continued forward.

He frowned tightly as he surveyed everything around him. This was a destroyed town, a complete wreck all around. There was not a single living person; scorched earth and death were all that remained here.

Li Huowang remembered this place. After escaping Qingfeng Temple, he had once stayed here for the night.

It had been bustling back then, yet now there was not a single living soul left. They had all been slaughtered clean.

This place was already near the front lines. Whether they were caught up in the war or deceived by the Dharma Sect, to the people of Great Qi, there was no difference.

Judging by how fresh the corpses were, this place could not have been massacred long ago.

"Sui Sui, take a rest. We're almost there." Li Huowang sat on a bench, took out dry rations and water, and began to eat.

Li Sui looked sadly at the corpses around them. "Dad, so many people died." She could now understand what death truly meant.

"Yes. 'Better a dog in peaceful times than a man in troubled times' isn't just something people say."

Watching the monks perform rites for the dead, Li Huowang felt nothing at all. He had seen far too many corpses along the way and had long since become numb to them.

In truth, his mind was entirely occupied with