The days following the Vanguard's breach of the Rotting Marrow Swamp bled into a blood-soaked routine for the demonic cultivators.
Sunny remained sequestered in his warded pavilion, utilizing the brutal lull in the actual fighting to delve deeper into the sect's forbidden archives. He had explicitly 'borrowed' a massive stack of bone-scrolls from the command tent, intending to study them whenever his fabricated 'trances' allowed.
He was currently deciphering a particularly gruesome text detailing the elemental philosophy of the Demonic Path. The author, a notoriously mad Grand Elder named Gu, posited that the ancient five-element cycle was absolute: Wood feeds Fire, Fire creates Earth, Earth bears Metal, Metal collects Water, Water nourishes Wood.
