Dong Xuanzi stood ramrod straight, his eyes wide. He had taken his own life; all signs of it were gone.
The scene fell silent.
Yi Beidou and Zhou Qingchen didn't move. They quietly observed, and upon confirming that Dong Xuanzi had indeed taken his own life, they couldn't help but fall silent.
For both of them, this was their first life-and-death battle against one of the legendary "Corpse Dissolving Immortals" from the Hidden World. Frankly, many aspects of it had defied their preconceived notions about such individuals.
They had originally assumed that such people possessed an all-consuming obsession with survival and would stop at nothing to achieve it, even if it meant becoming a prisoner and eking out a wretched existence.
After all, where there's life, there's hope.
They had expected the cornered Dong Xuanzi to surrender, choosing to live and look for a chance to escape later.
But that was not what happened.
