“I told you, I just wanted you to wait here for a while, and then I’ll bury you all.”

After slaughtering all of Ji Wang's soldiers in the village, Ye Li did not leave immediately.

Although the resentment belonging to those victims dissipated most of it with the death of the murderer, the remaining part was integrated into his body.

But the bones scattered all over the ground were just too tragic.

"I'll find you a good place, so that some hungry bastards won't come and gnaw on the bones."

Ye Li gathered together the bones, including the string of skulls that had been hanging at the village entrance.

In an open space behind the village, Ye Li slashed the ground twice with his sword.

"boom……"

It was just a longsword, yet it blasted a crater in the ground, just big enough to bury the bones.

"That's it. May you rest in peace. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes."

He threw all the bones in at once without assembling them, since they were all so clean and even cooked that it was impossible to tell them apart.

Repairing this would be too difficult for Ye Li.

"Good grief, after all that, I still have to assemble it myself?"

He buried it on the spot and swept back the mud that had splashed out earlier; his process had one last step.

"Come here and kneel properly as a form of repentance for what you have done."

Of the soldiers of the Ji King that Ye Li killed, he picked out three: the eldest brother, the fifth brother whom he killed instantly at the beginning, and the first one who shot him with a cold arrow.

He still remembered who they were.

The head is placed on the ground, facing the direction of the grave, while the headless body kneels here.

Fortunately, they had awakened their true forms and did not revert to their original forms after death, making the arrangement of these corpses simpler than Ye Li had imagined.

"Mission accomplished. This village is really unlucky; it just so happened to run into the barbarians at this time."

According to the map and the items on these people, if we continue forward, the area ahead will be inhabited by barbarians.

Whether it's the Wolf King's men or the Horse King's men, they're all sweeping through this area, and their activity seems to be expanding.

In other words, if Ye Li continues forward, the road ahead will be much more difficult and dangerous than before.

His enemies were no longer the routed army of the Divine Elephant Army, but the northern barbarians who were riding high on their victory, with their units linked together and able to cooperate.

"So what? The wishes of all living beings are the target of my sword."

Just look at this village and you'll know. If these barbarians are allowed to continue their actions and further expand the scope of destruction, the resentment he sees and the wails he hears will only be greater than they are today.

"Killing them will allow me to save more people. They're just enemies, I've been prepared for that all along."

My power is still growing. If I'm willing, and continue to become stronger, perhaps I can change the situation on the frontier?

It may sound like boasting, but Ye Li has this belief: carrying the wishes and cries of those who suffer, he will not lose.

In July of the 995th year of the Heavenly Stem Calendar, you approached Tianhai Pass, the site of the defeat of the Divine Elephant Army.

[On your journey, you encountered even more soldiers from the North, all of them haunted by vengeful spirits, and almost all of them died by your sword.]

A very small number of people realized the disparity in strength between themselves and the enemy at the start of the battle and fled immediately; they became the only survivors under your command.

Your fearsome reputation has spread among the soldiers of the North.

About thirty soldiers were resting by a campfire in an open field, but they were divided into two groups, each occupying one side of the fire.

The flags behind them depict a galloping horse and a vicious wolf, respectively.

The Wolf King and the Horse King's subordinates happened to meet here.

Although they coveted each other's loot, both sides were in good condition and worried about losses, so they did not attack each other.

"Hey, have you guys heard of this?"

"What did you hear? Speak quickly. I hate riddle tellers the most. I'll beat them up on the spot."

The wolf king's men were talking here when a small man got a tap on the head from their leader.

"Good, good, big brother. I heard that a monster has recently appeared in our area, a monster from the Gan Kingdom."

"A monster? What is that?"