Chapter 480: The Road at Your Feet

Hanson Lowell stood in front of the weathered stone stele, so shocked he was left speechless, standing there for a long time, only snapping out of it when someone approached. The demon avatar inside him flashed back into his body, and he slowly turned around. Not far away, a hunched old man was tottering in his direction, a bamboo basket dangling from one arm, filled with offerings for a ritual. He had a long, yellowed tobacco pipe clenched in his mouth, nearly as long as an adult's forearm, stained...