After Lady Mang Yuan and the eight shrine followers disappeared, Anji remained with the remains of the great snake spirit's bones for a long while. Something about witnessing a great crossing pulled Anji down a memory lane that did not belong to her.
Even if Anji had witnessed many sages ascending, it was probably her first time seeing the corpse of someone powerful. It was completely different from the corpses that lay strewn in bloody, mangled bits on a battlefield. It was different from witnessing the corpse lying in a coffin at a funeral parlour. Anji had no words to describe the strange feeling, so she sat with the motionless giant snake bones that glowed faintly with spells bound to them.
