Chapter 233 - 219.1: Hundred Years of Pain; Thousand Years of Suffering 3
"I already sensed something was wrong when you ran into that ghost." Guoshi said. "This ghost haunted upon the broken bridge in the barren wild, was donned in broken armours, the flames of karma beneath its feet, and blood and sharp weapons covered its body, leaving footprints of blood and flames behind with every step, and those three questions it asked you – all of that made me very concerned, worried even, and I couldn't quite put my fingers on what was wrong. And after defeating that ghost at the bridge, you ascended so quickly, I didn't have the chance to figure things out."
"Thankfully, after you ascended Jun Wu's attitude towards you was good as always, granting you favours, thinking very highly of you, like nothing had changed, and so I also told myself not to think too much."
"And then, it was the great drought of XianLe, the rebellion of YongAn, and – the appearance of that creature, White No-Face."
Xie Lian held his breath and was hanging on to every word. Guoshi said, "I've said so before, but at first I didn't know what that creature was at all. And even if the Human Face Disease had manifested, I only had suspicions, since parasitic resentful spirits wasn't anything new, it's just never so widely spread before. Plus, I was fairly resentful towards fate, so in the beginning, I thought White No-Face was borne of nature, that it was the heavens that wanted to punish you."
"But as you came more and more in contact with that creature, and the Human Face Disease was going more and more out of control, plus many, many other things on top of that, all of it was forcing me to think in the worst case scenario."
"Many, many other things?" Xie Lian asked, "What do you mean? Such as?"
"That family of three who fell to their deaths at the gates of the royal capital of XianLe." Guoshi replied.
Xie Lian stopped breathing, "That... was...?"
"Afterwards, I examined the corpses of those three people." Guoshi said, "And I discovered they weren't human at all, but three empty shells."
Xie Lian exclaimed, "But empty shells are hollow, they don't have organs and they can't
bleed??"