Chapter 87: A Soul Expert?
The figure quickly pulled their hood back into place and hurried past without a word, leaving me frozen in place.
"Ke Yin?" Wei Lin's voice seemed to come from very far away. "Are you alright? You look like you've seen a ghost."
A ghost. Or something worse. Because if what I had just seen was real, then either I was going crazy, or there was something very, very wrong with the world.
"I'm fine," I managed to say once the figure had disappeared, though my voice sounded strange even to my own ears. "Just... thought I recognized Li Yuan.”
Wei Lin and Lin Mei exchanged worried glances.
"Li Yuan?" Wei Lin said carefully. "The cultivator from the Flowing Stream Sect? The one who..." He trailed off, clearly not wanting to describe the gruesome scene we'd witnessed.
"I know how it sounds," I said, still staring in the direction the figure had gone. "But it was him. Same face, same..."
"It was probably just someone who looked similar," Lin Mei suggested gently. "After all, we saw what happened. The spiritual flame consumed everything – body and soul."
"Yeah," Wei Lin added, placing a steadying hand on my shoulder. "And you only saw Li Yuan briefly that one time. In a stressful situation. It would be easy to mistake someone else for him.”