[Though your entire skeleton was only purple copper bone, you dared to provoke someone with gold bone to save her. Gu Lingling took quite a liking to you.]
[Though your bizarre appearance and claim to be of the Human Race struck her as a little strange.]
[Seeing your curiosity about the sacrifice, Gu Lingling told you what had happened while consuming ghostfire to temper her bones and heal-that is, reshaping her broken bones so she could reattach them to her body.]
["The Disc-Watching Domain borders our Rift Valley Domain. Because my soul is unique, I don't need what you call 'firewood.' I can absorb ghostfire that hasn't crossed the bridge, so I've always kept out of worldly strife.
Some Mountain Kings favored me and jointly elected me Domain Master of the Rift Valley Domain.
But I don't usually concern myself with what they do, nor do I need them to pay tribute..."]
[Gu Lingling began by explaining her circumstances.]
[A Domain Master like her was rare indeed. She was probably the only one of her kind in the Burial Ground.]
[No wonder, despite your sweeping through so many Mountain Kings in the Rift Valley Domain, none of them had called in their backer to beat you up.]
[It turned out they had no backer!]
[Strictly speaking, though, they did have one.]
[Gu Lingling really couldn't be bothered to intervene in squabbles between Mountain Kings.]
[But not long ago, some of the Rift Valley Domain's Mountain Kings had jointly appealed to her, saying that Yedoulu, Domain Master of the Disc-Watching Domain, had obtained a Taboo Bone and was about to act against their domain. Gu Lingling would still step forward for something like that.]
["A Taboo Bone? I've only heard of Taboo Blood. What's a Taboo Bone?"]
[Gu Lingling gave you