At the foot of a small mountain not far from there, quite a few pavilions lay scattered in disorder. Compared with the place where Lin Xuan lived, however, they seemed extremely crude. Most had been made by taking earth from nearby, then applying a petrification art to build them temporarily.
Because that terrifying strange incident had begun happening again recently, everyone in the Branch Altar was in a panic. The two ancestral masters had already issued strict orders forbidding anyone from going out, but even gathered together, no one felt the slightest sense of safety.
And so, around the stone houses where everyone lived, all kinds of protective barriers and restrictions had been set up in a dazzling riot of varieties. Unfortunately, no one could say just how useful they really were.
At this moment, inside a certain stone house near the small lake, two young women were sitting cross-legged in meditation.
The room was very quiet. The faint chirping of insects outside could be heard, and soon, half an hour had passed.
The two women let out a breath at the same time and opened their eyes.
"Senior Sister, the effects of mid-grade pills are truly incredible. In just two short months, I actually stepped into the late Spirit Movement Stage." The speaker was the oval-faced girl on the left, about seventeen or eighteen years old. Though her looks were not peerless, she was still cute and likable.
"Yes. And it's not just the pills. The cultivation method Young Master gave us is also incomparable to what the sect taught us before. The speed at which our cultivation has grown these past two months can truly be called advancing a thousand li in a single day." Lu Ying'er smoothed her beautiful hair and spoke with some emotion. At this