Outside.
Dugu Yueli stepped atop Xiao Lan's enormous body and traveled west all the way, entering the territory of the Tusu Demon Domain.
The passage opened up before had long since been destroyed.
As Xiao Lan shifted her body and moved deeper in, corpses of great demons slaughtered in the aftermath lay everywhere she passed.
The stench of blood was especially thick.
It made even Xiao Lan somewhat unable to tell directions apart. Fortunately, the scent on a fox's body was still very easy to distinguish, and there were no other fox races within the Tusu Demon Domain.
"Big Sister Xiaoli, hold on tight. Something around here isn't quite right. I'm afraid there's some terrifying great demon."
"All right, I'll pay attention. Eh?"
"There seem to be a few faint auras up ahead. They should be little demons. Let's go over and take a look."
"All right, then let's go over and see."
Under Dugu Yueli's guidance, Xiao Lan crossed past several tree hollows. Sure enough, in a low-lying earth pit, they discovered two great demons resembling gray bears.
Only, their bodies were rather small. They should still have been in their juvenile stage.
They looked as if they had been left behind here by their elders.
Xiao Lan flicked her tongue, looking at the two blind bears huddled together in the pit, baring their teeth and trembling all over.
"Can you two speak?"
The two gray bears shook their heads frantically. They had not yet reached the realm where they could speak human words, but they could understand human speech.
Dugu Yueli gripped the horn on the top of Xiao Lan's head with one hand and looked down at the two bears, saying, "Do you know what exactly happened around here? Why are there such tragic casualties? Did a