"Oh?"
Li Yan became interested, "Tell me more."
The young man took another sip of wine and began, "Just the year before last, there was a river monster causing trouble in the Wuding River outside the city, claiming several lives. The City God Temple sent people to perform exorcisms, and it's said they used nets to fish out many river monster corpses, burned them all, and buried them at the Chaotic Burial Mound. They even invited someone to chant scriptures for the dead before the matter calmed down."
"I grew up at the Chaotic Burial Mound, was taken in and brought into the city. Later, my adoptive parents became ill and passed away. With no one to rely on, I had no choice but to return to the Chaotic Burial Mound, doing some grave robbing to make ends meet."
"Without a mentor, I didn't dare mix with those old hands for fear of being buried alive in a tomb, so I could only work solo."
