"Ah, we're almost there."
Just as Sun Ying was lost in thought, Arost's voice suddenly reached her ears.
Looking up, she saw that the lush forest scenery around them had faded away at some point.
In its place were stone paths that had clearly been repaired and reinforced, along with watchtowers and blockhouses that steadily grew more numerous and larger in her field of vision.
Each structure had a distinct purpose and was arranged in neat order, completely unlike the ramshackle huts Sun Ying had seen before.
Just staring at them for a while gave her a strange feeling of being out of place.
They were too orderly.
So orderly that they hardly seemed like something low-level monsters could have built!
Yet that was not what caught Sun Ying's attention most.
After seeing those orderly buildings, the Spirit Clan hunter's gaze was quickly drawn to something even larger and more conspicuous behind them!
It was a statue of flesh and blood.
More precisely, it was two statues.
Because the slowly writhing flesh formed two figures in total.
One of them was somewhat petite, with a swollen pregnant belly. Her head was lowered, her brows demure, while shy apprehension flickered in her eyes.
It was Evelina.
The other was a tall yet somewhat slender unfamiliar man. One arm rested around Evelina's shoulders, while his eyes stared straight ahead.
As though he could see through the layers of mist shrouding the Endless Great Forest and directly glimpse the most fundamental truth.
There was no need to guess.
That unfamiliar man was most likely Lu Li.
Sun Ying's romantic rival.
At this moment, she had no time to care about why Evelina had such a large belly or why the figures in the statue were being so overly intimate. She simply voiced her