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"": "At that very moment, in the main hall of a small courtyard in town.
Someone sat beside the table. It was none other than Mo Qian.
Mo Qian issued his orders from here, so he had stayed the night. He had also decided that this place would be his residence from now on.
A lamp burned in the main hall.
An oil lamp.
But the lamp was not made of copper. It was wooden.
Shang Liuli had made this wooden lamp.
After carefully examining the copper lamp, Shang Liuli had taken a piece of peachwood and carved a Wooden Lamp of the same size and proportions.
Shang Liuli was no ordinary woman.
Mo Qian knew that the copper oil lamp bore talismanic runes. His plan had been to have Shang Qu the blacksmith make the lamps, then carve the talismans himself.
But Shang Liuli had pointed out the crucial detail in a single remark.
What mattered most was not the copper lamp, but the talisman on it.
And so this wooden lamp had been made.
Tonight, Shang Qu the blacksmith was forging copper lamps, while Shang Liuli helped carve talismans there.
If the wooden lamp worked tonight, they would stop wasting their efforts on copper lamps tomorrow and devote themselves entirely to making wooden ones. Copper lamps required a blacksmith, but wooden lamps did not. They only needed someone to carve the talismans. Cabinet Mountain Town could take its first step toward defending itself against evil spirits in a very short time!
The flame burned steadily.
The courtyard gate remained quiet. It had never been pushed open.
Mo Qian rose, clasped his hands behind his back, and walked to the gate.
Through a crack, he could just make out an eye outside, staring at him.