After entering the Extreme Source, I did not see Wen Huai, but I saw some of my past.

In the classroom, I secretly asked my desk mate, "Hey, do you have A Brief History of Time?"

The desk mate scratched his head and replied, "Why would I bother picking up that thing?"

The scene changed swiftly and turned into a playground.

I was eating ice cream and leisurely said to my friend, "Let me tell you, girls shouldn't be too honest. They should do some naughty things appropriately."

"Why?"

"Because if heaven gets angry, there's a chance it'll send you a young man."

...

System, this isn't called the Extreme Source. It should be called "Reviewing Dark History of the Past!"

Just as I was thinking that, I encountered Wen Huai.

"Master, why are you here?"

"I'll take you out."

"That's great! It's so hard to endure here. I don't know what suddenly appeared and made me do squats while listening to people tell cold jokes. Sob..."

I had a bad feeling and asked him, "What kind of cold jokes did you hear?"

"Something about picking up poop and young men. Some of them I didn't understand."

System, just kill me.

Time waits for no one, so I quickly shouted the slogan of social death and returned to reality.

After leaving the ancient temple, we searched along the way, but there wasn't a trace of any living person.

Back at Xue Mansion, we were all astonished.

We saw that the main gate of Xue Mansion had been breached, and there were layers of dried corpses lying in the courtyard, with heads piled up on the ground.

Until we reached the westernmost room—there was no smell of blood inside the room. If we listened carefully, we could still hear someone's gasping.

This woman was precisely Xue Wan's personal maid, named Bi Luo.

"Shen... Master Shen?" Bi Luo exclaimed in surprise.

"Those living corpses..." Bi Luo worriedly said, even her eyes turned red, "Are you all okay?"

"Everything is fine."

"What happened? How did Xue Mansion become like this? What about Chang An?" I asked.

"Just after you left, we heard a string of eerie bells, and then many living corpses started banging on the door as if they had gone mad. It didn't take long for the door to be broken. Master Chang protected us by placing us inside the room and lured those undead creatures away himself. Young Master Xue followed Master Chang shortly after, and now their fate is unknown..."

Strange, could it be that someone deliberately wanted to delay us at the ancient temple?