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"": """That... probably isn't possible, is it?" Old Gong's mouth twitched slightly. He shook his head. "There's no one in Immortal Cave Mountain stronger than Old Mao."
"Mountain Specter and Chi belong to the mountain spirits and wild monsters. Taken individually, these monsters and demons aren't strong. But when they're raised into a single entity, the Nightmare Fiend's power grows. The mountain god becomes uncanny, and the entire mountain becomes his domain. That's how Elephant Mountain veils heaven. Cabinet Mountain is the same, except its Nightmare Fiend first merged with the Drought Demon, then ate Qin Que, who carried part of the Blackblood Vine. That made it even stranger and more vicious."
Qin Tianqing's tone was deadly serious, his expression even more cautious.
"Since the hexagram speaks of the place we're heading to blotting out the heavens and the sun, we can't ignore it."
"Besides, a Plague Ghost appears once every sixty years, and its earth qi forms a domain of its own. I've never heard of anyone turning a Plague Ghost into a corpse-ghost. That already defies all reason. The Plague Deity's earth qi became fate, reversing death into life and turning a ferocious ghost into a human."
"That act alone defies heaven and fate. Normally, the slightest trace of such a being's aura would bring heavenly lightning down on it."
"But that didn't happen to Lü Kan, did it?"
Qin Tianqing turned his gaze to Luo Xianshen.
Luo Xianshen shook his head, his brow furrowing even deeper.
"Unless something unexpected happened, Lü Kan is indeed the source of the trouble. His inability to control himself was inevitable."
"Old Gong, wasn't that your analysis too?"
Qin Tianqing spoke with absolute certainty, turning his gaze back to Old Gong's face.
At that moment, even Old Gong's