Red Mountain Empress felt the conditions she had proposed were a bit excessive, and hastily added, "Eradicating an incense hall is a very serious matter. To completely wipe out someone else's incense hall is to completely tear away all pretenses, and I also take on a huge risk. Three days cannot be reduced!"
"Fine!" Chen Shi said decisively.
Red Mountain Empress was quite pleased.
At this moment, Instructor Hu inside Life Harvesting Hall had already perceived the commotion, and raised a hand to signal everyone to keep quiet.
Suddenly, the bustling noises vanished, replaced by silence.
Incomparable silence.
The Life Harvesting Hall disciples grew solemn, every last one uttering not a word. Three disciples flipped over to land on the roof of the front courtyard pavilion, crouching low and crawling forward. Two disciples hid behind the rockery, three concealed themselves within the tree crown, and four more quietly slipped into the fish pond, holding their breath and lying flat on their backs with their faces and bodies submerged just beneath the water's surface, eyes wide and motionless.
Five other disciples hid in the corners of the walls, hunching over. Two pressed tightly against the doorway of the corridor, one on the left and one on the right, while others lay flat on the ground, utilizing shadows for concealment.
The crowd remained utterly soundless, quietly prompting their divine shrines and summoning their divine embryos to condense a single spell before dissolving the shrines and embryos once more, lest the light from the divine shrines and embryos startle the incoming visitor.
Instructor Hu hoisted those Life Harvesting Dolls that were currently absorbing the moon's yin energy. One by one, the Life Harvesting Dolls floated up in silence, their heads swelling to become larger than an Eight Immortals table.
Pairs upon pairs of