Li Hao followed the damp gravel path for several li and arrived beside another deep pool beneath a waterfall.
"Strange. I thought I heard a flute just now."
Li Hao looked around. Had he imagined it?
The waterfall ahead hung like a curtain, but through gaps in the flowing water, he could make out what seemed to be a small shrine.
Slightly surprised, Li Hao flickered into motion, executing White Phoenix Travel at Supreme Perfection. Like a bird threading through a forest, he slipped through the curtain of water without getting so much as a drop on him.
Of the three Art Skill Points he had saved earlier, he had spent two on the Body Movement Dao, allowing him to comprehend this high-grade technique with ease.
As Li Hao entered the curtain of water, two slender figures stood on another moss-covered stone platform some distance from the waterfall.
"Huh? Yueyao, did someone just walk past over there?" Lin Feifei asked in surprise, pointing toward the waterfall.
"I think so."
Song Yueyao had noticed as well, but the figure had vanished in a flash. He seemed to have been wearing an outer palace Academy Uniform.
"So my eyes weren't playing tricks on me. What's an outer palace disciple doing here? It's not time for the freshmen's annual examination yet, is it?"
Lin Feifei asked in puzzlement, "He seems to have entered the Lord of the Square Shrine. Could he be going into the Mo River?"
Song Yueyao withdrew her gaze and shook her head slightly, uninterested in such unrelated matters. She raised the flute in her hand and began to play softly again.
Behind the waterfall, Li Hao examined the shrine before him.
It was tiny, only about half a person's height.
Yet its construction was exquisite. Inside stood two