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"": "Inside the Main Hall, Xu Lu paced back and forth, his expression growing increasingly anxious.
"Second Madam?" he said softly.
Second Madam Hu poked out of his clothes, a trace of caution in her narrow fox eyes.
Ever since Xu Lu had been placed under house arrest, she had not shown herself. Every master in the Main Hall earlier had exerted immense pressure on her.
"There should be two elders guarding me. Can you bewitch them? This is important." Xu Lu lowered his voice further and looked solemnly into Second Madam Hu's fox eyes.
Second Madam Hu yipped, meaning, "What do you think?"
"Of course I think you can. You've got two tails. They're not just for show." A spark returned to Xu Lu's eyes.
"Against ordinary masters, these two tails of mine are certainly useful. But everyone here is a monster, so yes, they're just for show. It gets cold at night, and an extra tail keeps out a fair bit of wind," Second Madam Hu answered with a series of yips.
Xu Lu: "..."
"Ah..." Xu Lu sighed.
Second Madam Hu yipped again. "Why are you sighing? As a resident master, even the Venue Master has to treat you politely. Isn't that pretty good?"
"Thinking back, what they're afraid of must be the Living Buddha, the Sinpo. Wherever you go, any faction would fear an existence like that. Those are true monsters, equivalent to a fifth-level Spirit Medium Taoist who successfully underwent corpse liberation. That level exists only in Sawu Mountain's classics."
"Luo Bin said earlier that the Old Miao King on Three Perils Mountain reached that level. Although we never saw Tulku Gonpo-the Kong An you mentioned-make a move, Luo Bin said a single word from the Old Miao King made someone