After Xie Dading left, Qin He went across the hall to collect the corpse.
When he arrived, he found the room full of scattered remains. The temporary corpse burner had been torn to pieces by the Mutated Corpse, with only a small portion left.
Qin He carefully tried to recall what the corpse burner had looked like, only to realize that since they had never interacted, he could not remember him at all.
But that did not matter, because the corpse Xie Dading had meant was not the temporary corpse burner's, but the Mutated Corpse that had just leapt up. It lay slanted by the doorway, half its body blasted to bits by White Yama, with seven mithril needles embedded in it.
"Such a heavy hand~" Qin He could not help muttering. The Corpse Suppressing Nails would have been more than enough. Did he really have to hit it that hard?
A full bottle made no sound, while a half-full one sloshed around. What kind of person was this?
Speechless as he was, he did not skimp on the work. He carried the corpse back, washed it, and patched it up.
After half a day of work, he finally got it properly sorted out.
By then, the first corpse was nearly ready for cremation, and Shadow Play arrived.
The deceased was named Liu Yanting, captain of Squad Alpha City Guard under the City Patrol Division. He was at the late Dao Palace Realm, and his strength ranked among the best within the City Guard.
It had begun the night before. Liu Yanting had been leading a patrol through Pass City. With the polar night approaching and strange disturbances frequently occurring in the wilderness, Liu Yanting had remained diligent and conscientious. Though the City Pass was protected by a great formation,