When Xu Ruoping and the Phoenix, chatting and dawdling all the while, made their way through the bamboo grove and reached the edge of yet another river, Qilin, Xu Hongbo, and Jun Wushang were already waiting there.
This must have been another branch splitting off from the Jing River. Compared to the main stream they had just crossed, this channel appeared narrower and the current much swifter.
The Phoenix rummaged through a pile of fallen leaves and fished out a small skiff. One after another, they leaped aboard, but this time they headed upstream.
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