"Xiaoxue, are you all right?" Xin Huohuo rushed to the door and helped the "lump" on the ground to its feet.
Xiang Xiaoxue was still shaken. "Why am I so unlucky? I ran into a Blood Bone Bird again!"
"You should thank it this time." Xin Huohuo pulled Xiang Xiaoxue inside. Outside King Yama's study, there was no courtyard as she had imagined. There were no other buildings, either. It was just pitch-black darkness everywhere. No living or dead souls appeared, nor were there any buildings, streets, or markets. It was like facing a black desert.
"If not for the bird, you would have gotten lost on the road between life and death, never to escape. Its methods were a bit rough, but its intentions were good."
'A bit rough? It grabbed me and just threw me on the ground!'
Seventh and Eighth Brother had said before that the Blood Bone Bird was originally a tyrant in the Underworld before it somehow submitted to Bei Mingyuan. That was why it knew its way around here so well.
