After running two steps, Shi Lan's thoughts stirred. Xiantian True Qi surged through her body and into her feet, sending her soaring into the sky. She stepped through the air.
Looking down at the ground dozens of zhang beneath her feet, Shi Lan's expression grew dazed. When she came to, she glanced at the Flying Cloud Boots beneath her and headed straight for the city wall.
The entire western wall had mostly collapsed. Rubble had completely buried the city gate, and only the remains of white bones could be glimpsed among the broken bricks and tiles.
Shi Lan searched through the ruins for a long time before finding fewer than ten sets of white bones clad in black armor. The rest of the armor had shattered into fragments, and the bones were scattered everywhere, impossible to piece together.
Shi Lan found twelve Demon-Suppression Tokens.
"Zhang Ding..."
"Liu Yunsheng..."
"Yan Shan..."
"Yuan An..."
"Jiang Li..."
As Shi Lan sensed the Demon-Suppression Tokens and watched the names flash through her mind, her palm clenched involuntarily. She sat down among the broken bricks and tiles, her mind utterly blank.
Those comrades, familiar or otherwise, now lay there as nothing but white bones. Some couldn't even be found at all...
Shi Lan had already anticipated this when she'd made plans to flee, but when the scene truly unfolded before her eyes, an uncontrollable sense of guilt rose in her heart.
Whatever the reason, fleeing in the face of battle was still fleeing in the face of battle—even if she had only been preparing to do so and hadn't yet put her plan into action.
After steadying her emotions, Shi Lan left Twin Moon City and went to the battlefield where the Demon-Suppression Army had fought the demonic beasts.
The demonic beasts' corpses had also