PS: Hehe, all owed updates for the month have been repaid, haven't they?
It wasn't long before Julian and several disciples appeared nearby. Seeing the body of Ai Lian, once the most favored by their mentor, on the ground, the disciples shuddered. One of them quickly shouted:
"He can't have gone far, let's chase him!"
A few people scrambled to enter the hole and climbed up, leaving only Julian behind with a dreadful expression on his face.
"Very good!"
An icy voice, as bone-chilling as a cold winter breeze, squeezed through clenched teeth. Julian, laughing out of sheer fury, swept his eyes contemptuously across the area, then looked up toward the hole's entrance. With a sweep of his large sleeve, a layer of densely packed, soybean-sized black dots poured out from beneath his feet, spreading to the corpse on the ground and covering it completely. The sound of fine gnawing soon followed.
"Teacher loved you the most. Don't worry, it won't be long before he joins you."
