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The entire town burned and for hours, the only thing that could be seen in the sky was dark smoke.

The black skeleton had left the town with the girl in tow. The two were now walking away from the town with a group of human refugees. It still held the young girl by the hand. The two looked like a father and daughter. To the humans, there was nothing wrong with these two people except that they kept to themselves and spoke to no one.

The skeleton had a large battle axe strapped on its back and in its left hand, it carried a small brown bag. The skeleton had picked up this bag after the Butcher had thrown it away.This was why the skeleton had chosen not to chase after the human even though it sensed that he would have been the sweetest meal it had ever had.

The large group of refugees consisted of the few tens of people who had survived the massacre and burning of the town. The skeleton had decided to blend in with them. It had learned the value of living among humans. If all things went as planned, it could have a stable source of corpse qi and knowledge.

The skeleton had put on its dark cloak and it projected the image of the girl's father for all to see.

The group reached a small stream and they decided to rest there for the night.

The skeleton sat on a boulder with the young girl who looked at everything as though nothing mattered.

The skeleton did not know much about humans but it was starting to worry about the young girl.

"Do you need a blanket for your daughter ?" asked an old man.

The skeleton was at first surprised but it still took the blanket and wrapped it around the young girl.

The skeleton could not speak but it had come up with a method to communicate.

It brought out a small book and a pen and wrote down its words.

"Thank you very much ." it wrote.

It had been among the humans for some time and it had learned the basics of interacting with them.

The old man nodded in response.

"No problem." he said.

The old man then looked at the young girl and walked closer. The black skeleton almost attacked but it then remembered that this was human nature, When they saw a young human in distress, most of them would want to find out the reason so that they could help in any way they could.

The old man examined the young girl as he made polite conversation with the skeleton.

The skeleton had wanted to use the time to examine his gains from the town but it now had to deal with human customs.

"I think she is just hungry and a bit traumatized." said the old man.

When the skeleton heard the old man's words, it remembered that the young girl had indeed not eaten in some time.

It stood up and left a note to the old man.

It requested that the old man look after the girls it went hunting in the forest. The old man agreed after some time.

The skeleton entered the forest and used its life sense skill to detect wild animals. It had seen that humans liked eating the flesh of other living creatures and so it began searching for those it had seen them eat in the town.

The forest was teeming with life. It moved like a mass of darkness scaring many creatures but it did not care. It was looking for wild pigs. It had seen humans eat this on many occasions.

It left the lions and tigers alone until it found a herd of wild pigs deep in the forest.

With a single slash of its dark blade skill, the herd of over twenty pigs was killed.

The black skeleton did not have time to waste so it looked around for a large thick tree and cut it down. Using its battle axe that could cut through steel like paper, it fashioned a long sharp pole that it used to skewer all the pigs. It then carried the pole on its shoulders and ran out of the forest. The entire affair took less than thirty minutes.

When the old man saw it coming out of the forest with all the dead pigs, his mouth was slack-jawed.

The other refugees moved closer to the black skeleton and looked on in wonder and awe. They could not understand how this was possible. Hunting was a very difficult task especially since night was approaching.

The black skeleton put the pigs on the ground and told the old man to cook.

The old man did not need to be told twice.

He gathered other refugees who knew how to roast the pigs and just like that, all the refugees got what to eat.

They were all very thankful to the black skeleton and wanted to know its name.

The black skeleton did not know what to say in response and so it evaded the question.

The group of refugees and the young girl sat down around a large fire and ate the pigs as they spoke about all kinds of topics from who the hottest women in the group were to whom they suspected of destroying the town.

It turned out that all these refugees had survived because they had been outside town when everything went down.

No one knew about the black skeleton.

The main suspects were the Butcher slavers.

They had been spotted outside the town by the old man.

The skeleton was happy with this result.

"I would like to know the name of my benefactor ." said a young lady. She was pretty enough to excite the humans.

The black skeleton knew that it could no longer evade the question. All eyes were on him.

The skeleton thought for a second before writing down an answer.

The skeleton thought about the name it had been obsessed with right after its birth.

"Wu Yi"

It wanted to call itself Wu Yi but it felt a lot of loathing when it thought about this name.

I hated this name with a passion.

It did not know the reason for this hatred but it did not want to be called by this name.

At this moment, it looked down on the battle axe and it saw a new change that was not related to its cultivation.

The name Zian Yi had appeared out of nowhere.

The skeleton liked this name and so it gave this as its name.