Sentient?

—This world had finally gone so insane that he could no longer understand it.

At this moment, that was probably the only thought in He Qiu's mind.

Out of a bit of courtesy, the group had just helped the battered, broken statue on the ground back onto the altar and respectfully bowed to it again.

Although everyone knew perfectly well that there was probably no "true god" governing this place anymore, they were still borrowing someone else's territory. It was only polite to offer some respect in return.

By now, the three "cultured gentlemen" were sitting behind the relatively cleaner altar, discussing matters.

Unlike the somewhat unsettled He Qiu, Du Qifeng and Lu Yansheng were chatting with considerable enthusiasm.

"But conversely, the main plot of A Chinese Ghost Story was about the scholar Ning Caichen arriving at Lanruo Temple. What did that have to do with Xuan-Yuan Sword: Scar of the Sky?"

Du Qifeng vigorously shook out the collar around his neck, flicking away several strands of long hair that had accidentally slipped inside.

Even though the bugs on his body had mostly been cleaned away, remembering them still made him feel deeply uncomfortable.

"No, if we have to force a connection, there actually was a little one."

"Back in our day, quite a few people from our generation played the single-player Xuan-Yuan Sword games. I remember the developers saying that, because the setting of the A Chinese Ghost Story film series was hugely influential at the time, the various Xuan-Yuan Sword games borrowed quite a few concepts from those films."

"That even included the name 'Xuan-Yuan Sword' itself—"

Unlike those two young men, Lu Yansheng had a few more decades under his belt. That meant he did not understand many newer things, but likewise, there were things he knew