Yuchi Hanxing left with the remaining eight hundred thousand and some soldiers. Lu Yun knew that their numbers would be replenished soon.

“Talk,” Lu Yun declared to the giant willow and the juba. “What’s the deal with this place?”

The otherkind cultivators within the Skandha Range had scattered and returned to their homes. They were called otherkind because they were nonhuman lifeforms that walked the path of cultivation, but hadn’t materialized a new form yet. They weren’t monster spirits, but cultivators on their way to becoming one. They possessed the intelligence of regular human beings, unlike simpleminded monsters. [1]

“What place?” The juba and willow exchanged a befuddled glance.

Lu Yun frowned. “I mean the ancient tomb on this site.”

“There’s a tomb here?”...