Everyone woke up with a start and was shocked! Looking down from the mountain at the small town at the foot of the hill, they saw it had been reduced to ashes, with faint wisps of smoke still drifting lazily into the air.
Overnight, the town had been burned to ashes!
Had it not been for Tan Xiao making a fuss about leaving, the group would have spent the night right there in the town. Given the ferocity of that blaze, whether they could have escaped with their lives would have been a question; even if they had managed a lucky escape, they would certainly have emerged with scorched hair and brows, in a thoroughly wretched state.
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