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"": "The Real Person elders exchanged glances and nodded.
The disciples cleared weeds and saplings from a patch of ground with their swords, exposing the gravel beneath.
Clearly, plenty of people had walked through here before. Who would lay gravel at the foot of an ordinary mountain?
Once everyone had sat down,
"We'll head to the mountainside first. That should take about a day. We'll enter the Immortal Ascension Taoist Grounds and find out what happened on Immortal Cave Mountain before going up to Thunder-Peace Taoist Abbey."
Luo Xianshen began laying out their plan.
"Daoist Luo, why don't you draw us a map?" Qin Tianqing suggested at just the right moment.
Taking out a sword, Luo Xianshen pried aside the gravel and drew a rough outline of Immortal Cave Mountain, then marked the locations of the Immortal Ascension Taoist Grounds and Thunder-Peace Taoist Abbey.
The Immortal Ascension Taoist Grounds lay off to one side of the mountainside, while Thunder-Peace Taoist Abbey was indeed at the summit. The grounds were below, the abbey above.
Luo Xianshen hesitated briefly, then placed his sword behind the Immortal Ascension Taoist Grounds and drew upward, tracing a straight line to Thunder-Peace Taoist Abbey.
"Something must have gone wrong in the mountain for people to be able to enter but not leave. If there's no one at the Immortal Ascension Taoist Grounds, we'll go in here. There's a path inside, but it was completely sealed off to avoid any suspicion of impropriety. The people at the grounds might have opened it already. If they haven't, we'll open it ourselves and go up to Thunder-Peace Taoist Abbey by way of Lord Tian's Spring," Luo Xianshen declared firmly.
"Mr. Qin, Mr. Luo, what do you think?"
Luo Xianshen raised his head and looked at