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"": ""I... drew it?"
"I... really could?"
"I..."
"Huh?" Xu Lu muttered to himself, suddenly bewildered.
The Fourth Grand Grounds Master's Yin Spirit before him had actually changed appearance.
It was no Yin Spirit Projection at all, but a white fox with two tails, standing on her hind legs like a human, her forepaws held before her chest as she snickered.
"Ying, ying, ying." Second Madam Hu cried out.
"Fooled you. I'm not a Yin Spirit Projection. I'm your mother."
"My mother?" Xu Lu was stunned again.
He was completely confused now.
His mother wasn't a fox spirit, was she?
And how could he understand a fox's cries?
What on earth was going on?
Then Second Madam Hu squeaked again and corrected herself. "I'm not your birth mother. I'm your second mother."
Xu Lu could no longer think. He hadn't noticed the wisps of white smoke pouring down from directly overhead and continually burrowing into his head!
All he could feel was the pain assailing the crown of his skull!
With a thud, Xu Lu dropped heavily to his knees.
Instinctively, he slapped the hand bearing the Five Elements Soul Suppression Myriad Forms Returning to One Talisman over his face!
Wisps of white smoke kept burrowing into his head!
Some of that smoke came from the distant Hanging River.
The rest came from elsewhere!
There was a range of mountains!
It was far more than a single mountain. None of the peaks was particularly high, each standing around a hundred meters tall.
Some were ten or twenty meters taller, others ten or twenty meters shorter, creating an uneven landscape like counting rods scattered across the ground.
Between three peaks lay a relatively low depression. At that moment, a group of people was walking through it.