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"All right, stop fooling around. What time is it, and you're still at it? Anyway, now that everyone's here, it's perfect. There are quite a few formation flags left here. Shao Zi, Xiang Ling, and Xiao Jiao, each of you take one-third. One of you head northwest and plant one every hundred li; another head south and do the same; and the third go northeast, planting one every hundred li as well. I need to thoroughly investigate the structure here before I can break the Shanhai Diagram's seal." I took out over a hundred flags and divided them among Xiao Jiao and the two disciples.
"But I still want to talk with Master!" Shao Zi said coquettishly. I smiled and said, "There are still people outside waiting for us to rescue them. That old monster has gone berserk this time. He locked a girl in a coffin and is holding a ghost wedding with his true body. We need to get out quickly so we can save her. Otherwise, once they've worshipped Heaven and Earth and entered the bridal chamber, things will be beyond salvaging."
"He's that evil? I knew he wasn't a good person!" Xiang Ling said angrily as she accepted the flags. "I'll go south. One every hundred li or so, right? We won't need that many, though. This realm is tiny."
"Round?" I had already noticed that Xiao Jiao had not used many flags on her return, but there was no telling what shape this realm was. After all, it was hardly strange for some realms to be rectangular.
"Not exactly round, but nearly so," Senior Brother Hai said, and Shao Zi suddenly perked up. "Master only wants to measure whether this place is round? Hehe, we've measured it several times already, but found nothing!"
"Shao