"Senior Brother Fan, you've been to Mani Temple. Can you tell me in detail what the situation over there is like?"
"Y-you've never been to Mani Temple?"
Fan Yunqing looked utterly astonished. "If you've never been to Mani Temple, then how did you get here?"
"Me?"
"It's a long story. Simply put, the grassland we entered was actually a formation. Two other friends and I joined forces and, by sheer luck, made it through the formation and arrived here."
Fan Yunqing clicked his tongue in amazement.
"Then... you really were lucky."
"We didn't have that kind of luck. After those two Mani Temple monks brought us to Mani Temple, we were sent into a great hall just like everyone else."
"There were a great many people in that hall."
"They were making an endless racket."
"But the Mani Temple monks looked at us as though we were thieves."
"Later, Senior Brother Bi Yusheng from Lingyun Pavilion somehow got into a conflict with the Mani Temple monks, and they started fighting..."
"Senior Brother Bi Yusheng killed two Mani Temple monks. That brought in a large number of Mani Temple monks, and they seemed to hate us to the bone, shouting that they would kill every last one of us..."
"Senior Brother Bi Yusheng said those Mani Temple monks were acting strangely and urged everyone to fight them. Another great battle broke out as a result."
"We weren't strong enough, so once the melee erupted, we fled and accidentally entered a Valley..."
Li Yun looked startled. "Bi Yusheng came too? Then where is he now?"
Fan Yunqing shook his head. "I don't know. I never saw him again. But I did see Junior Sister Zhang Ruohan from the Vermilion Bird Courtyard... though she seemed to have fled into another Valley!"
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