Who Are You?

Outside Heaven Dou City lay the corpses of more than ten thousand Soul Beasts. Dealing with them would be a nightmare, so an official proposed to Emperor Xue Ye that the carcasses be distributed among the city's people. They could go out and collect them, while workers set up stations at the gates to butcher and distribute the meat on the spot. It would save manpower and quickly clear the official road.

Emperor Xue Ye liked the proposal and immediately had word sent throughout Heaven Dou City. The people went out in groups, working together to bring back one Soul Beast carcass after another. Butchers were on hand to carve them up.

For the people of Heaven Dou City, it was a day of joy, a day of revelry, a day to eat meat until they could eat no more. But at the Spirit Hall Branch, Yang Fanglin found something strange about a Beast Tide with no leader. It was as though the beasts had come to their deaths on purpose. He forbade Spirit Hall's Soul Masters from taking any meat.

All day, meat cooked across Heaven Dou City, and its aroma filled the air. The Soul Masters at the Spirit Hall Branch were drooling. "Hall Master, the whole city smells of meat. I'm tempted to go grab some by force..."

"Third Brother, have you turned over a new leaf? I thought you wanted to go to the Happy Red Courtyard..."

"Oh, piss off. If I went to the Happy Red Courtyard now, I'd be afraid I couldn't stop myself from biting off one of those whores' tits and eating it..."

"Quiet. All of you are staying inside Spirit Hall today. I can't shake the feeling there's something strange behind this Beast Tide. Get yourselves ready in case anything happens,"