Chapter 5990

“It’s them… It really is them…”

Chen Ping’s hand trembled as he held the fragment of cloth, his fingernails biting deep into his palm.

He had sensed it long before—but confirmation still hit like a crushing blow. The pain and the surging, uncontrollable fury nearly swallowed him whole.

Senior Musha—the elder he had once rescued from the ladder, the one who appeared at a critical moment in the Twelve Heavens, who pointed out the Ancient Qi Stone Cavern and revealed secrets of the heavenly realms, calm and unfathomable. And his wife—just resurrected, her eyes once filled with hope for the future…

They had ended here.

On this filthy, gloomy Falling Soul Slope.

“Where are the bodies?” Mingli asked after searching the area, confusion etched across his face. “Why isn’t there a corpse?”