The morning mist of the Tainyuan Mountains had not yet dissipated. Ye Fan walked at the very front, his boot soles crushing a few dew-soaked pine needles. He could feel the Longevity Secret Record within his Inner World burning hot, like a piece of glowing charcoal, radiating warmth through his flesh and deep into his bone marrow—the manual was urging him on, completely different from the cold, agonizing burn he had felt in his past life when he ventured here alone.
"Brother, slow down." Chǔ Hóngzhuāng's silver bells chimed crisply behind him. She stood on tiptoe to tug at his sleeve, and the Golden Gu in her hair buzzed into flight, drawing a circle above his head. "Hóngzhuāng's Golden Gu says there are living things moving in the woods ahead." The young girl's fingertips still retained the lingering warmth of the pill furnace. Just moments ago, she had handed three detox pills to each person, and now she was stuffing the remaining medicine bottle into her waist pouch with movements as swift as a honey-thief bee.
Qín Wǎnshuāng's figure flashed out from behind a tree on the left. A couple of strands of black hair that she usually tied at the crown had come loose, clearly showing she had just inspected the surrounding terrain. "There's a depression thirty paces to the southeast, suitable for an ambush." She twirled the jade thumb ring in her hand, the formation patterns of the Starry Sky Locking Heaven Array shimmering faintly on its inner surface. "If anything happens, I ca…
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