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"": "The Third Consecrator could not possibly hurt Xu Lu, which left very few possibilities.
First, something had changed where Xu Lu was staying, and a corpse-ghost had found him.
That was highly unlikely. An elder-level practitioner would surely be guarding Xu Lu. Perhaps the Deputy Grounds Master? Or the other elders, led by the Grand Elder.
With the Wind-Concealing, Qi-Gathering, Nine-Star Sand-Sealing Dragon-Suppressing Talisman protecting the Dao Hall, its defenses would never be breached.
But that raised a problem.
According to what Xu Jiuqu had said earlier, Xu Lu was in the Dao Hall at the center of the Talisman Arts Taoist Grounds.
Yet Fourth Master Gray had said Xu Lu was far away from them-too far for them to reach in time.
That meant Xu Lu had been moved.
Who could have taken Xu Lu elsewhere?
Only one person!
His great-grandfather, the Third Consecrator of the Talisman Arts Taoist Grounds!
That Third Consecrator had indeed been ruthless, splitting his soul outright.
That was also highly unusual. He had left Xu Lu's obsession behind.
Put those two anomalies together, and taking Xu Lu to the place where he suppressed the dragon vein became normal instead?
Luo Bin's heart sank again, this time all the way to rock bottom.
By that reasoning, only the second possibility remained.
The Yin Spirit Projection practitioners of the Lesser Earth Aspect Taoist Grounds had arrived. They had bypassed him, disregarding the risks to strike straight at the Talisman Arts Taoist Grounds' current vital point!
That Third Consecrator!
This was precisely what Xu Jiuqu had feared!
Luo Bin did not want to keep tangling with Little Earth Aspect.
At least three Yin Spirit Projection practitioners!
And between them lay a blood feud over the destruction of their sect!
There was something