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"": "Soon, the figure disappeared from view.
Luo Bin's heart pounded wildly, as though beating in time with the hearts hanging from the branches in the Peach Grove.
Every beat slammed against his chest, threatening to burst through it!
Was he terrified? Luo Bin had not lost his composure to that extent.
But to say he was unafraid would certainly have been a lie.
Even with all his ritual artifacts, he would not have dared confront an ascended malevolent corpse head-on. He had only dared retrieve the pill from that monk corpse on Elephant Mountain because it was already suppressed.
It would take someone at least as powerful as Kong An or the Old Miao King to hold their own against an ascended corpse and have a chance of slaying it.
As he was now, he fell far short.
Lying prone, Luo Bin pressed his ear against the ground.
The sounds grew faint.
The corpse had moved farther away.
He rose and hurried out of the Peach Grove, arriving beneath the felled nine-knob white-blossom peach tree. That was what Luo Bin would call it for now, since those were its most obvious differences from the other trees.
The coffin dragged out from beneath it was small, no more than two meters long.
The body lying on the ground had its head, hands, and feet neatly severed. Its thin torso resembled a section of... tree trunk?
The corpse was a woman. Her features were not beautiful, merely plain and clean.
She wore a Daoist robe and was clearly a female Taoist.
Yes, even in death, she carried a faint aura somewhat like Bai Xian's.
Of course, Bai Xian herself was the very image of a female Taoist from Divine Firmament Mountain.
The wounds were fresh, as though