1352 Going Separate Ways

By the time they descended the mountain, it was already late in the night.

At the foot of the mountain, they discovered twelve Wind-Chasing Beast carcasses. Their cores had already been removed, leaving behind only their bodies, which were abandoned at the roadside.

Wan Renjie and the other two were rather distraught. They traveled in silence the entire way, constantly looking to their side or behind them, as if they were still searching for traces of Wei Wuyan.

It felt as if he was still around. Yet when they turned to look for him, he was nowhere in sight.

This was a feeling which made the sorrow in one's heart the most unbearable.

They thought of how they and Wei Wuyan had accompanied one another and gone through countless life and death crises together this past year… Now, after much hardship, they had finally escaped from a doomed situation where they were sure to die.

Yet not long after they had escaped, Wei Wuyan died…