"Brother Gu, I never knew you were this powerful."
Zhao Liu clicked his tongue.
Recalling what he had said before, Gu Qingshan replied, "Cut the nonsense. Go get the tools. We're taking this Demon Beast back to the Military Camp."
The hideous black shadow clung tightly to his back, staring fixedly at him and watching his every move.
Mustering his courage, Zhao Liu glanced at the Demon Beast again and exclaimed with delight, "Good heavens, it's huge! This'll feed us for a whole month."
Gu Qingshan nodded in agreement.
Zhao Liu dashed back to camp and went to the mess hall to fetch a large net, long ropes, a boning knife, and all the other tools they would need.
Gu Qingshan waited where he was.
The demonic shadow stood motionless too, occasionally extending one or two long limbs to stretch them slightly.
Was it checking on Zhao Liu?
Or probing the state of the war in this world?
Gu Qingshan wondered silently.
Suddenly.
The demon seemed to sense something. It swept aside the surrounding currents of nothingness and swam off in one direction.
It was gone.
—What happened?
Gu Qingshan's thoughts tightened.
The next second, increasingly turbulent currents of time took shape in the void.
Gu Qingshan paid them no mind. His expression unchanged, he simply waited for Zhao Liu to finish gathering the supplies so they could deal with the Demon Beast's corpse together.
The currents stirred.
A slender mermaid quietly appeared.
Fei Ying.
Her face was full of worry as she looked over at him.
"Gu Qingshan, the entire River of Time is under the demons' surveillance. There's nothing we can do about it now," Fei Ying said.
Before Gu Qingshan could speak, she continued, "Liu Lin and the others just drew the demons away. I took advantage