In Fengdu City, many ghost clan members have already woken up. They start repeating yesterday's events, as if following some fixed program, walking along predetermined paths.
As for why this happens, even they aren't clear; there's just a voice inside telling them it must be done.
"Strange, why hasn't Granny Qian delivered the essence energy? How can I make the soup without it?" A vendor selling hot soup grumbled discontentedly, for without essence energy, there is no hot soup.
Hot soup is food for the ghost clan in Fengdu City, essential for their survival, much like humans need food, without which they'd starve to death.
When there were no living beings available, they relied on a plant living at the bottom of the Heavenly Cutting Abyss to make the hot soup, which contained a small amount of essence energy.
Since capturing the demon clan, the ghost clan no longer needed to laboriously pick plants, just waited for someone to deliver the absorbed essence energy for soup-making.
