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"": "Returning to Peach Immortal Town was practically the same as returning to Fourth Master Gray's own doorstep. It was perfectly normal for him to pick up a familiar scent, but his reaction went far beyond that.
Yan Nan?
Bai Wei?
Or someone else?
Whoever it was, it probably wasn't an ordinary person. Otherwise, Fourth Master Gray would have reacted differently.
Fourth Master Gray gave another two feeble squeaks.
"Oh, my dear Ku Xing'er."
Even his head trembled twice, like someone sobbing. Combined with his quavering voice, it was no different from crying.
For a moment, Luo Bin was stunned.
Hu Xing?
But Hu Xing had died long ago!
To recover his corpse core, Dai Zhixiong had captured Hu Xing and used her as a Honey Person, refining her alive into pills. Fourth Master Gray even had one of them.
Just as Luo Bin thought of this, he saw the red cloth rise higher. Fourth Master Gray twisted his neck again, and a dark golden pill dropped from the folds of his skin. Holding it in his front paws, he rubbed it twice, then sniffed it.
"That little wench Yan Nan must have taken out something that used to belong to my Xing'er."
"The scent's pretty faint. It's still quite different."
Fourth Master Gray squeaked, his rat eyes reddening slightly.
Only then did Luo Bin understand.
Naturally, Sawu Mountain had belongings Hu Xing had left behind.
Bai Wei had taken an interest in Yan Nan and wanted her as his disciple precisely because she resembled Hu Xing so closely.
Although Bai Wei had been detained, the Shamanesses' lineage was probably targeting the Five Corpse Immortals. Had Bai Wei already been released because of that?
If he hadn't been released, then someone else must have been tending