Liu Chang'an held Shangguan Dandan by the waist, carrying her sideways as he looked around in the pitch-black night. His gaze settled on the corpse herders' procession.
Liu Chang'an knew a little about corpse herding.
In the public eye, corpse herding belonged to Wu clan culture, but this Wu clan had nothing whatsoever to do with the Wu people living on the Malay Peninsula.
The Wu clan that practiced corpse herding was not an ethnicity or race, but the people in humanity's ancient era who could contend with exotic beasts.
In the age when exotic beasts ran rampant, humans were exceedingly frail by comparison. Fortunately, they were widespread and survived through diligent reproduction, avoiding extinction.
Though human bodies were weak, humans possessed stronger reproductive capabilities than exotic beasts, as well as the wisdom forced out of them in desperate circumstances.
Humans chose to improve their bloodlines. They sent out handsome men and beautiful women to win over the hearts of some exotic beasts, allowing those beasts to mate with humans and produce descendants who bore human blood and appearance while inheriting the abilities of exotic beasts.
These descendants were the Wu clan. Most of those mysterious and extraordinarily powerful figures in myths and legends were likely Wu clansmen of this kind, such as many of Huangdi's meritorious ministers.
The existence of the Wu clan finally gave humanity some means of survival in the age of rampant exotic beasts. Powerful Wu clansmen could directly contend with the strongest of the exotic beasts, without falling short in the slightest—and could even defeat them.
"Do you remember the key reason your uncle and late husband ascended the throne?" Liu Chang'an set the sideways-held Shangguan Dandan upright on the ground.
It looked like a very strange sequence of movements, but it was actually perfectly