On the first day after Yu Tingchao was gone, Ning Xiang spent the entire day in his room.
On the second day after Yu Tingchao was gone, Ning Xiang returned to normal, as though she had forgotten Tingchao's death. Apart from helping the Eastern Sea cultivators rebuild their homes after the disaster, she spent most of her time catching the restless demon beasts near the Eastern Sea and beating them senseless. She divided the demon cores she obtained into two portions, giving one to Jiang Miaomiao and storing the other in a box.
Everyone feared Ning Xiang might do something desperate, but she was remarkably calm. They merely began to wonder why the demon beasts, so swaggering and arrogant before, now all had bruised faces and swollen noses.
On the fifth day after Yu Tingchao was gone, a cultivator suggested to Yu Zhengrong and his wife that they erect a cenotaph for Yu Tingchao, somewhere to place their grief. After hearing of it, Ning Xiang went to Yu Tingchao's extinguished soul lamp, watched it quietly for a while, then left without a sound.
On the sixth day after Yu Tingchao was gone, Yu Zhengrong and his wife erected his cenotaph. Ning Xiang did not attend; she merely beat the demon cultivators and demon beasts even harder. Su Lang stayed quietly by her side and joined her in beating up demon beasts.
On their way back, Ning Xiang suddenly remembered something and asked, "Senior Brother, have the whip marks on your shoulder healed?"
Su Lang nodded.
In truth, injuries inflicted by the Golden Crow Brightflame did not heal so easily. His shoulder still burned with pain, but Su Lang did not want to tell her.
On the eighth day after Yu Tingchao was gone, not a single demon cultivator or demon