At that moment, Tail's heart sank into utter despair.
Earlier, she had seen that the system still recognized Fang Yue as alive, so she had taken his "corpse" and left.
Now, not only did the system no longer recognize Fang Yue as alive, but even his corpse had fragmented and vanished without a trace. There was no chance he could come back to life.
Tail stared blankly in the direction where Fang Yue's corpse had disappeared, lost in her thoughts.
[ Tail...]
Lord Qi Ba Jiu clearly wanted to comfort her, but before he could say anything, he suddenly sensed something. He immediately directed his awareness toward the place where Fang Yue's fragments had vanished.
[ Tail! Something's wrong. Something is approaching. Leave here at once!]
Tail was clearly still in a fragile state of mind, dazed and distracted. She didn't respond to Lord Qi Ba Jiu at all.
Just as Lord Qi Ba Jiu gritted his teeth and prepared to expend his last bit of strength to forcibly descend and take control of Tail's body...
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
Particle-like fragments suddenly appeared before them.
They seemed to materialize out of thin air, swirling without a breeze and sweeping toward them. In Tail's arms, they gathered and took shape.
"What is this?!"
Tail froze on the spot. Looking more closely, she realized that the fragments looked almost exactly like the ones that had scattered when Fang Yue's corpse disappeared.
[Could it be?!]
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
The fragments gathered much faster now. The vague, circular outline expanded into a human shape, and bones and flesh rapidly formed within it.
Everything was accelerating. The fragments spun faster and faster, until they moved too quickly for the naked eye to follow. Only a blurry black shadow flashed wildly before them, bringing sharp gusts