In a secluded courtyard on the Lan Family grounds.
"This is the place."
Lan Hengyu led everyone over and stopped at the entrance.
A squad of guards stood watch at the entrance. Seeing Lan Hengyu, the Lan Family Patriarch, arrive with the others, they immediately let them through.
As they entered the courtyard, everyone felt a chill.
Lan Hengyu led them into a room, where the chill grew even stronger.
At the same time, they saw the "corpses" laid out on beds.
"These are the bodies of the Lan Family experts who accompanied my son that day. They were all fine men of our family..."
Lan Hengyu looked grief-stricken.
"After the incident, we recovered their remains at once and brought in a professional forensic examiner, but nothing unusual was found. However, knowing that the members of the Storm Demon Hunting Squad were coming, I assumed you would want to examine their remains. So I held off on burying them and asked an Ice Ability User to create this Ice Chamber to preserve their bodies. I imagine... they would want to hear that my son had returned before they could rest in peace."
Su Ye's gaze had already settled on their "remains."
If they could still be called remains.
There were twenty-two bodies in the Ice Chamber, each laid on a separate Ice Bed.
Yet not one of those twenty-two bodies was intact.
Every body had large portions missing.
One was nothing more than a short section of a severed arm.
Just looking at these bodies was enough to imagine how brutal the battle must have been.
"Thirty people accompanied my son, but we only managed to recover these twenty-two bodies. Even my son's protector... we couldn't find so much as a fragment of his remains. Only traces of the qi