To Little Bad King, Su Yan and Shen Xu's "deaths" undoubtedly felt rather sudden. One moment, he had still been thinking about the "craftsman," and the next, he saw all three lying stiffly in the wilderness.
From the three entering the Secret Realm laughing and chatting to the appearance of two charred corpses, all it had taken was a change of scene. Little Bad King had no idea what they had experienced inside the Secret Realm. He had merely closed his eyes and opened them again to see the ending.
For the Park District's Conan, this experience was like having a cat claw at his heart, an unbearable itch that made him unable to stop wondering what exactly had happened inside the Secret Realm.
But speculation aside, judging solely by the outcome, Su Yan and Shen Xu's deaths did not seem all that sudden. In fact, everything fit together with an uncanny precision. Back on Medicine Peak, these two had been Corpse Puppets with charred bodies and hideous faces, looking exactly as they did now.
Did that mean this Daoist couple might have been refined into Corpse Puppets inside the Secret Realm? Or had someone used some Secret Method after their deaths to preserve their bodies in the state they had been in before dying, with something else happening later that led to them being refined into Corpse Puppets?
But that did not make sense either. From the memory rewind so far, these two had barely interacted with Piggy Master, aside from their "failed attempt to peek at him bathing." In that case, why had their bodies become tools for Piggy Master's crimes?
Boom!
Just as Little Bad King was puzzling over this, the wilderness collapsed again, turning into countless surging points of starlight that gathered anew.
The images shifted,