Persuading People Towards Goodness

Walking along the road to the small town, Jiang Beiran realized the surroundings were not the pastoral scenery he had imagined. Instead, white cloth hung from almost every household, and the sound of weeping rose and fell without end.

At first, Jiang Beiran found it a little strange, thinking that a month had already passed since the final battle with the Gu Cultivator, so why were these people only now beginning to hold funerals?

But after a second thought, he understood. In the beginning, the Cultivators had still been searching Gu Dens nonstop to rescue people, so everyone must have been praying that their family members were safe.

But now that a month had passed, there had probably been no news these past few days of any more survivors being rescued.

With their final hope shattered, they had no choice but to begin arranging the funerals, at the very least giving their family members a place for their souls to return to.

"Sigh."

Faced with this scene, Jiang Beiran could not help but let out a sigh. During his time in Yuan City, he had never once slackened, doing everything in his power to solve every problem.

But in the end, such enormous sacrifices had still occurred. It left his heart feeling unbearably heavy.

It also made him all the more determined to handle the matter of preventing Miasma properly.

"Is Master Jiang sighing for all living beings under heaven?"

At that moment, a girl's voice suddenly rang out in Jiang Beiran's mind.

Jiang Beiran glanced at the girl beside him and felt that the way she spoke was rather mature, with a scholarly air to it. Her upbringing at home was surely excellent.

"I just hope something like this never happens again."

"Mm." The girl nodded, then said to