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"": "This was an enormous cultivation ground.
Tree trunks stood tightly packed together to form walls on all eight sides, with tiny branches sprouting from them.
Every tree was growing, making the walls thicker and heavier by the moment.
Inside the wooden walls stood a black wall that looked like charcoal!
Beyond a gap of roughly ten meters, a massive earthen wall rose from the ground!
Another ten meters inward stood a Rock Wall. Flecks of gold dotted the rock, gleaming with a metallic sheen in the sunlight.
Ten meters inside the Rock Wall flowed a river, its waters murmuring and shimmering.
The river encircled a vast expanse of woodland, deep within which lay courtyards.
In one of those courtyards stood a dozen or so people.
They faced a large house, where two more people stood.
One was a neatly dressed man in his thirties or forties: Li Yunyi.
The other was an elderly man with loose skin, sagging cheeks, and fine crow's-feet crowding the corners of his eyes. A hint of delight shone in his gaze.
He was none other than Shangguan Xingyue's master, the Lord of Cabinet Mountain!
Discussion rose from every direction. Without exception, the eyes of everyone in the courtyard held admiration upon admiration.
"Senior Brother Yun Yi, you truly are extraordinary! You have my admiration!"
"Indeed! A Three-Life Flower! When Master told us about the Twin-Bloom Flower, we were already utterly awestruck. And now it turns out to be a Three-Life Flower! Never mind something seen once in a century-this is practically unheard of."
"Junior Sister Xingyue is a woman, after all. She overlooked the problem with the Outsider from Beyond the Mountain, but Senior Brother Yun Yi delivered a perfect solution! I wonder what miraculous soul-nourishing effects the fruit of