Flames (Fifth Update!)

"Killing the Man in the Flesh will solve the problem? I doubt it."

As Xia Lun spoke, he grabbed the tower-like man's mangled corpse and climbed the ladder toward the surface.

Torn flesh clung to shattered armor plates, and the heavy body made a strange, muffled rustling sound as he dragged it along.

Xuan Yan watched him, hesitated, then clenched her fists and said quietly, "Master Xia Lun, put that corpse down. Those lunatics from the Mind Fasting Sect can locate every high-ranking follower. They can use the body to track us."

Xia Lun said nothing. He ignored her completely.

Xuan Yan grew anxious again. She hurried up the ladder after him, intending to stop him.

But when she climbed out of the Darkroom, she saw this:

Under the faint, murky moonlight, Xia Lun hoisted the giant by one shoulder and tossed the corpse into the thick fog like a piece of trash.

The fog churned. With a hiss like acid eating through flesh, countless bubbles spread across the giant's exposed skin like mushrooms growing wild.

The cold, sticky fog seemed to come alive. It rushed eagerly at the giant, whose corpse suddenly thrust out a hand. A hysterical, beastlike scream burst from the throat the blade had torn apart.

The scream did not last. The fog swallowed it whole.

The fog stirred, then everything fell silent again. The horrifying scream and the giant's remains vanished together, as though none of it had ever happened.

At the sight, Xuan Yan was struck speechless.

That worked?!

The Death Fog could stop high-ranking followers of the Mind Fasting Sect from coming back to life?!

She stared silently at Xia Lun in his dark gray coat as though he were an immortal who had attained enlightenment.

Confusion, unease, and astonishment surged together into