It was another dusk.
The sun slowly sank, casting everything in a golden glow.
Luo Yan drove along, searching for a place to camp for the night.
Before long, he parked the vehicle in an empty lot.
It was an abandoned highway service station. Vines had crawled all over the station's signboard, obscuring its name.
Inside, the shelves of the small supermarket had toppled over, and the display counters were shattered. Most of the goods were gone.
What remained was mostly worthless, such as maps and promotional flyers for nearby attractions.
Several cars were parked in the service station's lot, but only their frames remained.
In the driver's seat of one car was a male corpse. It had been reduced to a skeleton, and even its clothes had nearly rotted away.
Luo Yan looked around, found a patch of grass, and then searched the supermarket for a shovel.
He dug a pit in the grass, carried the skeleton out of the car, and placed it in the pit.
A short while later, there was a grave on the grass.
Luo Yan stacked stones into a small tower before the grave. Then, using a wooden plank he found nearby, he carved the words "Tomb of the Nameless" with Dragon Elephant.
He then stuck the plank into the ground before the grave.
After finishing all this, Luo Yan pressed his palms together and said softly, "Rest in peace."
Once he had finished, he took a tent out of the SUV and set up camp in a cleared patch of ground.
As he put up the tent, Luo Yan mentally reviewed yesterday's practice of the Ten Directions Annihilation Spear.
"In the end, the 'Silent Fire' nourished by Mystic Qi is still far inferior to the original wielder's."
Luo Yan sighed quietly.
When he