"It's delicious too, this is one of Xiao Huan's specialties." Mu Run picked up a meat-filled fried cake and handed it to Yun Ruji.
Yun Ruji took it, first peeling back the golden-brown, crispy outer layer, and then asked Mu Run, "What do you think death is?"
“Death?” Mu Run frowned slightly, because she really didn’t quite understand death. “I used to think that the so-called reincarnation and afterlife were just beautiful fantasies and didn’t exist. Only the present moment was real. Even tomorrow is uncertain. Life is like an arrow shot out; it begins with birth and ends with death.”
"Oh?" Yun Ruji asked, somewhat surprised. "And now?"
Mu Run replied, "I'm confused. The corpses in Yongzhou City, you say they're dead, but they seem to be alive, a strange kind of existence."
Actually, she was confused about herself; she had died several times, but always survived.
Yun Ruji said, "Let's not talk about the corpses for now. Just talk about death. There is no true death in this world. You think it's the end? It's actually the beginning. It continues to exist in another form. You may turn into a person again, or you may become a handful of soil or a blade of grass. The only thing that disappears is the memory, your own memory."
If the Witch Clan evolves, they gain the ability to become spirits, continuing to live as souls, detached from their physical bodies. Four hundred years ago, the Witch Clan was not divided into red and black factions; many evolved simultaneously, seeking to leave the subcontinent and journey to the higher-realm main continent.
"Therefore, the witches who died at that time, whether they were red witches or black witches, they only left the subcontinent, they did not really die."
"Yes. The reason why the Red Witches and Black Witches acted that way was to reassure the human race. Before their evolution, the Witch Clan was no different from ordinary people and needed to survive within the human race."
"But it seems that humans don't know anything about subcontinents."
"There's no need to know. And even if we did know, their bodies wouldn't be able to evolve; instead, they would hinder our witch clan. If we can't have it, we'll destroy it! We've learned this lesson enough."
Mu Run and Yun Ruji talked a lot, and Mu Run learned many secrets about the Witch Clan, as well as how the Witch Clan eventually evolved and returned to the Ao Shu Continent to become the Spirit Clan.
The Wu tribe has very few people left; almost all of them are left on the subcontinent.
The children born from the union of two Spirit Clan members are also Spirit Clan members, completely different from the Witch Clan. They can manipulate the elements of heaven and earth at will, without needing to use Gu as a medium.
Just like the name of this subcontinent—the Remnants. The Witch Clan is actually an ancient race abandoned by the Spirit Clan.
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As night fell, the Chongyang army returned to their ships.
They now fully understood why they hadn't been allowed to stay in the city last night; the king was acting in their best interests. Fighting living people gave them a chance to survive, but fighting dead people, especially poisoned ones, was unpredictable. They might end up not only failing to kill the enemy but also strengthening their forces.
Therefore, before nightfall, all the Chongyang soldiers boarded the ships again, showing no hurry to occupy Yongzhou City.
Some even suggested that we should head directly to Qiongzhou and temporarily set aside Yongzhou.
Fu Yunchen, however, did not move forward.
He even ordered most of the Chongyang army to retreat to Shuncheng, leaving only 20,000 armored soldiers and a deputy general to continue clearing Yongzhou City until there were no more corpses in the city and the city gates were rebuilt before returning to Shuncheng to join the main army.
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