Li could not help but admire Hela's reasoning. What Hela had deduced was probably close to what he had figured out himself. Still, Li always felt that something about it was off. But he quickly let it go. After all, he was far too weak right now. Even if he understood what was going on, he could not change anything.
What he could do now was make sure that catastrophe never descended upon this world. Otherwise, he would soon be destroyed along with it.
For now, he still had to help Aili meet her end first!
Yet as Li looked ahead, he could not help frowning. Judging from the Mountain-Shifting Lion Demon's reaction, the place ahead was clearly no good destination. After a brief consideration, however, Li decided to press onward. Though he could no longer use a technique like the Earth-Shrinking Technique as the Mountain-Shifting Lion Demon still could, he was quite confident in his current speed.
Li led the four of them forward for some distance before catching wave after wave of blood stench. Following the smell, they soon found several corpses hidden in the grass. All of them bore sword wounds, and not a drop of blood remained around the injuries. It seemed their enemy possessed some secret art that could kill without leaving a trace of blood.
Li continued onward in that direction. This time, however, they traveled for a long while without finding any more dead people, until they crossed a mountain range and reached another plain.
Only then did Li discover another group of corpses. Unlike those they had found before, these people seemed to have died in extreme agony. Every one of them had been disemboweled, a gruesome, bloody sight!
After walking for another quarter of an hour, a scream suddenly tore through