"Baili Tumming, calm down." Instructor Han Li steadied Baili Pangpang and spoke helplessly.
"After we left Jinnan Mountain, the logistics cleanup unit went there. They also entered your cave. With the abilities of an Earth-type Forbidden Ruin, they had already turned the entire underground ruin upside down.
"They found the bodies of two 'River' Realm believers buried beneath the rubble. They found Instructor Hong's used emblem. But in the innermost section of the cave, all they found were large chunks of charred debris.
"DNA analysis confirmed that some of the charred debris came from the 'Sea' Realm believer, Ma Yitian, while some of it came from... Shen Qingzhu."
Baili Pangpang opened his mouth, his face turning pale. "But you didn't find his body, did you? So..."
"That section of the cave was filled with flames and magma. There was no way a body could have remained." Instructor Han Li shook his head.
Baili Pangpang's brows knit tightly together. He lowered his head, racking his brain. Then, he suddenly looked up again.
"No. If... if he drained all the air from the cave and extinguished the flames before they completely burned his body, then he might actually have survived!"
"Baili Tumming!" Instructor Han Li seized his shoulders, his eyes wide as he enunciated every word. "The Heaven Returning Jade is not some miracle cure. It can only preserve the last breath of someone on the verge of death. It is powerless against the dead!
"Even if everything happened as you said, even if he survived by draining the air, then why didn't the cleanup unit find his body? That was two kilometers underground. Could a dying man have crawled all the way back to the surface?!"
At those words, Baili Pangpang's lips began to tremble. He opened his mouth as if