"Uh... if you put it that way, then I'm definitely no better." Hearing the White Fox girl's words, so full of lingering dread, Jiu Ming shook his head. The bloodshot veins in her eyes were becoming increasingly obvious. Who knew whether she would still be able to keep her emotions under control in a while.
Purification...
"I feel much better." The White Fox girl shook her head and drew in a deep breath. "You have no idea what it felt like just now. It was like I'd really been transported somewhere else—my sense of smell, my sensations, my perceptions... And that movement you made just now looked like a lethal attack in my eyes."
"...Is that so?" Jiu Ming let out a crooked chuckle. "Then I really have to thank you for your trust."
After landing at the bottom of the gorge, the sensation beneath his feet made Jiu Ming raise his brows. Decaying bones lay scattered everywhere. Judging by the well-preserved ones, most had died from falling, though there were also some with no injuries at all, their causes of death unknown.
And beyond those bones, there were even more vines carpeting the surroundings like a rug. Most of them were tangled around the corpses, and Jiu Ming even spotted several fresh bodies hidden beneath the vines...
Well, they had apparently been dead for some time. Yet the strange thing was that the corpses showed no signs of decay. Instead, they had taken on an abnormal, shriveled appearance.
Pop!
The soft sound beneath his foot made Jiu Ming look down. The vines carpeting the entire gorge floor bore dark green berries resembling mock strawberries. The sound just now had come from one of those berries bursting, and a wisp of dark green gas had escaped from it.
Jiu Ming