Chapter 131 - 128- The Strange East Wing
When Sol reached the ground, he looked around only to feel that creepy sensation one usually feels when one visits an abandoned building or site.
His entire surroundings were pitch black, and ruined buildings were all around, making it a perfect scenario for Sol to see weird and bizarre images that may or may not be ghosts.
"Okay Solovin, ghosts aren’t real, they aren’t, how could they be? Just—crack!—hiccup!"
Sol nearly leapt into the air and ran off screaming at the top of his lungs, but he managed to stop himself.
Looking down he realized he had just stepped on a twig or something. However, when his eyes focused on the thing he had stepped on, all the hair on his back stood up as a cold chill went down his spine.
It was the rib cage of a human.
A man?
A woman?
Sol didn’t know, the person was merely bones. Even looking at their clothes wasn’t of any help since those had been destroyed by the passage of time. But what was even more eerie was that the body was missing its head.
Sol gulped down a large lump of saliva. If he hadn’t figured out who was really the Nian Beast he and Yoon-Jae might have been one of these headless corpses right here.
"Well, now I know where all those cultivators who first came here went."
Sol figured the Nian Beast was the one to throw these dead bodies out of the arch openings. Possibly to keep the main palace clean and not let newcomers catch on to what was going on.