Starforce Warriors

This strange and sudden change left Li Xiaofei deeply startled. He’d only casually said so after failing to detect anything before. He never expected it would trigger such a gruesome reaction.

A chill crept up Li Xiaofei’s neck.

So what I had seen on the Heavenly River... was not entirely an illusion?

Just exposing the truth had caused Husi to die. Moreover, his death, where flesh dissolved into bone, was identical to how he had perished in the Heavenly River.

There had to be a connection between the two. Li Xiaofei nudged Husi’s skeleton with the tip of his boot, and a story from a classic legend suddenly surfaced in his mind.

In the tale of The Investiture of the Gods, the Grand Tutor Bi Gan had his heart ripped out by King Zhou, yet didn’t immediately die. Upon leaving the palace, he stopped a passerby and asked, “Can a man live without a heart?”

According to the story, if the passerby had answered, “Yes,” Bi Gan would have survived.

But the unfortunate answer was, “Without a heart, a man must surely die.”

And so, Bi Gan died on the spot, bleeding from every orifice.

Could the same principle apply here with Husi? Or was there something wrong with that ferryman from the Netherworld? What a shame.

He really shouldn’t have killed Fei Lun first. Fei Lun had been with Husi the entire time, and he must’ve known something. Still, he remembered seeing another person dead on the Heavenly River, Song Yu. Maybe he could learn something from Song Yu instead.

After disposing of the remains, Li Xiaofei turned to Chu Xiang and explained the relationship between the metal fragments and the alchemy furnace.