"Ah? The Fox Ancestor? Wasn't the Fox Ancestor dead? That was only his will from the past." Rou Niang said, unable to understand.
Yet Su Mei Niang suddenly looked toward the distant Dried Corpse of the Fox Ancestor, as if she had grasped something in an instant.
"The Fox Ancestor is dead, and that was indeed his will from the past. But now, there's still the Fox Ancestor's will inside his body!" Zhong Shan said in a deep voice.
"What do you mean?" Rou Niang asked, bewildered.
"As long as the corpse remains, its instincts remain as well—especially a corpse that has manifested like this. Before, it was merely the will he had protected with his magic power back then, a will possessing consciousness. Just now, that conscious will dispersed, but his corpse still has another will—a will without consciousness!" Zhong Shan said in a deep voice.
"I don't understand!" Rou Niang shook her head.
"When we were in the Central Continent, I was at the Burial Household. In one of the Burial Household's Small Worlds, the Burial Household's ancestor had merged with that Small World. After he died, his consciousness dissipated, but a drifting, unconscious will remained. When the head of the Burial Household was overwhelmed with grief, he moved that will, ultimately allowing it to gather and briefly form an instinctive will with consciousness. That instinct protected his descendants!" Zhong Shan explained.
"It's like mortals praying for their ancestors' protection. In truth, they use their Bloodline Inheritance to gather their ancestor's drifting will and make it respond in some small way!" Zhong Shan added.
"Ah? That works too?" Rou Niang said strangely.
"The Burial Household?" Mei Niang narrowed her eyes.
Mei Niang naturally knew what had happened to the Fox Clan. The Burial Household was the chief culprit.