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After reassuring the followers from Flowing Cloud Grotto, the party set out again. This time, they finally reached Abundance City without incident.
At the city gates, Fang Qianyuan stopped again and asked the Moonlight Fairy with a hint of inquiry, "Aunt Yue, you and my master are close. Would you like me to arrange for you to stay with the Jiang Clan...?"
"Well... perhaps not." A complicated expression flickered across the Moonlight Fairy's face as she declined.
Fang Qianyuan gave her a meaningful look. "Very well. I'll arrange for you to stay at another guest residence. I reserved several quiet, secluded places, so there's no need to worry about outsiders disturbing you."
The Moonlight Fairy smiled faintly. "Sorry for the trouble, Qianyuan."
Origin energy seemed to circulate through a dim cave. Faint, eerie lights wandered everywhere as though alive, shimmering with a hazy glow.
Suddenly, lamps enclosed in glass shades lit up along the cave walls.
The vast space, a hundred zhang across, instantly became brightly illuminated.
Rumble!
The cave floor churned violently. Several figures burst out like fish rising from beneath the water, then abruptly leaped up.
Great quantities of earth and dust flew everywhere, leaving every one of them filthy and bedraggled.
"Huff... huff..."
These figures were none other than the Warrior experts who had attacked Fang Qianyuan earlier, including the Snake Person who resembled both a python and a flood dragon, the centaur, and the strange insect-man.
There was also their final member, who had never shown himself before Fang Qianyuan and now finally revealed his true form.
He was a corpulent man whose enormous arms resembled shovel buckets, like a giant beetle encased in a shell.
His body was densely covered in gleaming black carapace. Even after he emerged from the ground, spirit essence