["Senior Gu Lingling, you're neither in the Void Realm nor the Real Realm now. This is the Burial Ground, where the law of the jungle is carried through to the bitter end! If you really want to save the fellow cultivators of the Rift Valley Domain from being sacrificed, help me!"]
["How do you want me to help you?"]
["Lend me your bones!"]
["What???"]
[Your startling words nearly scared Gu Lingling away.]
["Though I'm grateful that you saved me, how could I possibly let you take the gold bones I've painstakingly tempered over tens of thousands of years?"]
["Huh? Tens of thousands of years?"]
["Though I can directly absorb ghostfire without crossing the bridge, the conversion efficiency is low. To gain as much ghostfire as someone else gets from absorbing one, I might have to absorb ten, or even a hundred."]
["That really wasn't easy, huh..."]
[Counting it up, more than thirty thousand years had passed since the last Human Emperor's reign ended.]
[The era Gu Lingling had lived in belonged to some Dongming Emperor you had never even heard of, so that must have been even longer ago.]
[You had originally intended to borrow Gu Lingling's gold bones to defeat Yedoulu. Since she could absorb ghostfire freely anyway, you figured tempering them back wouldn't be difficult.]
[Now it seemed Gu Lingling certainly wouldn't agree to that.]
["Then there's another way!"]
["What is it?"]
["Actually, I've been challenging Mountain Kings everywhere to borrow their bones, but they often refuse, so I have no choice but to kill them and take their bones."]
[Hearing you say something so hellish with such composure forced Gu Lingling to revise her worldview yet again.]
["Then you want to..."]
["Use the same method. It's just that my fearsome reputation has spread far and wide now,