Luo Qingyin's words instantly sent the temperature in the entire hall plummeting to freezing.
Everyone stared at the two corpses lying together. For a moment, no one spoke.
Those two... really had died here.
"Well, damn..."
Black Mountain swept his bear eyes over the corpses littering the floor and muttered, "I was wondering why the fighting outside left everything so clean, without even a scrap of meat. Turns out they'd all been picked up and piled in here!"
Si Chen had already walked over to crouch beside the two "fresh" corpses.
He examined them carefully. It looked as though something had sucked their foundations completely dry, in an extremely direct and brutal fashion.
Devouring... Dao Foundations?
He instinctively glanced at Red Bean on his shoulder.
The ability to directly devour and digest Dao Foundations was far from common.
Red Bean tilted its little head and stared at the corpses too, then chirped twice at Si Chen, fluttered its little wings, and shook its head vigorously.
Its meaning was clear: This exalted one didn't do it. This exalted one dines elegantly, not in such a filthy fashion!
It even used a claw to straighten the purple ribbon around its neck, demonstrating that it was a bird of refinement.
No one present was a fool.
The demon beasts' bizarre behavior earlier, along with the various unusual things certain people here had done...
Someone was harvesting people here!
This person was powerful, might even be able to control demon beasts, and... was very likely among them!
Apart from Si Chen, the others all discreetly put some distance between themselves.
Luo Qingyin was the first to retreat toward the hall's entrance, her hand already resting on the jade flute at her waist.
Zhou Yan and Hui Ming were equally vigilant, or at least appeared