Just then, Fourth Master Gray squeaked, saying, "Little Luo, you're about to strike it rich. I'll share in your good fortune and take a bath to ease my fatigue."
Then he kicked off with both hind legs, leaping from Luo Bin's shoulder toward Lord Tian's Spring.
Luo Bin raised a hand and caught him by his rat body.
Fourth Master Gray squeaked incessantly, twisting and struggling.
"You'll die."
"There may be something wrong with this water."
"Quiet!"
The three statements came in quick succession, brief and to the point.
Luo Bin kept his voice low as well. Finding Lord Tian's Spring had not made him lower his guard. He put Fourth Master Gray back on his shoulder and replaced the Spirit-Inviting Talisman with a fresh one.
"I can't guarantee this place is safe. Don't leave my shoulder again," Luo Bin added.
Fourth Master Gray settled down, his rat eyes darting about once more.
Luo Bin's gaze remained on the inscription along the well rim. He scanned the square stone chamber inside the mountain, then took out the Jade Star Qimen Compass to check his bearings.
This was clearly the mountain's interior. There could be no mistake.
There was a door ahead, with steps leading up to it. That indicated a passage beyond, running through the mountain to the Thunder-Peace Taoist Abbey above, exactly as Luo Xianshen had described.
Then this was Lord Tian's Spring!
But why was there an inscription calling it Three Corpse Spring?
Could there be both Lord Tian's Spring and a Three Corpse Spring here?
Yet Luo Xianshen had never mentioned the latter.
Only after a long while did Luo Bin think of a possibility: the people of the Thunder-Peace Taoist Abbey had added this inscription afterward.
The reason was simple. Drinking from Lord Tian's Spring only