The morning light began to rise.
An orange cat crouched in a mountain hollow.
The "Night Wraith Ghost Shadow" on its body had worn off, but it didn't hurry to leave.
--After all, in the vast, boundless Doomsday Graveyard, the White Flame Skeleton surely wouldn't notice a little animal so quickly.
That unkillable Apocalypse Monster was now focusing all its attention on trying to awaken those slumbering doomsdays.
The orange cat quietly listened to the incantation carried on the wind, pondering various strategies.
Suddenly, a faint resonance came from the Bringer-of-the-End Dog's Military Cap.
A strange ripple followed from within the orange cat's Sea of Consciousness.
--As the Bringer-of-the-End Dog's Military Cap resonated, the Stone Coffin began to tremble incessantly!
The orange cat watched the two objects with curiosity.
After all, this was a contingency Muse had left behind in his prime. Heaven knew what he had placed inside the Stone Coffin.
Rumble!
The lid of the Stone Coffin began to crumble, revealing what lay inside.
--It was the phantom image of a girl--no, in this form, she must have been a soul!
The soul was asleep, clutching a long, snow-white bone to her chest.
Endless, brilliant radiance swirled around the bone, enveloping the soul.
The girl's soul and the bone lay motionless.
It seemed they were both in some wondrous state.
Gu Qingshan gazed at the girl's familiar face, and his mood suddenly brightened.
This matter had always weighed on his mind, but he had been away from the Ancient Era for too long and had never returned to the River of Death, so it had been delayed.
He never expected Muse to have taken such care to make it happen.
The next moment, Muse's voice sounded from the bone:
"Qi Ruo and Atley were our comrades, but they