Li Ping'an and Old Ox worked together to bury Gao Ming.
This young cultivator had traveled countless miles from Cloud Province aboard a Flying Boat, staking his entire fortune and life.
In the end, unsurprisingly, he had left both his fortune and his life here.
Li Ping'an and Old Ox played their instruments, one bowing the erhu, the other blowing the suona.
Li Ping'an collected his belongings, thinking he would look for the caravan the young man had traveled with if he could.
Perhaps he could send word to his family or his sect.
The man was dead.
In the distance, however, a little girl came hurrying over with a fruit.
The little girl landed and transformed into a cat in a few quick movements, running even faster.
Upon seeing Li Ping'an, Kitten leaped straight into his arms.
The impact filled his embrace.
Bang! Bang!
Lightning kept striking down, landing where Kitten had just been running.
When the pursuer drew closer, she proved to be a girl riding a flying eagle.
She wore an animal-hide hat and was bundled up tightly.
Only her eyes showed, watching Li Ping'an warily.
Holding Kitten, Li Ping'an asked, "What happened?"
Kitten panted. "...The fruit... fruit."
Kitten held up a deep-red fruit in two little paws.
Yet this was no ordinary fruit.
Li Ping'an raised his head and looked at the woman riding the flying eagle.
Presumably, this was a struggle over the fruit.
"This fairy found it first, and then that bad woman riding the eagle came out and tried to steal this fairy's fruit," Kitten recounted what had just happened.
Seeing how shaken Kitten was, Li Ping'an spoke with a hint of reproach.
"Didn't I say not to fight people over treasures?"
"This fairy just thought the fruit looked delicious."
"This isn't an