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"": "Everything seemed calm. Everything seemed fine.
But it was all an illusion.
Was it merely a facade the Jade Hall Taoist Grounds and the Jade Hall Taoist Abbey had put on before plotting against him?
For a moment, Luo Bin felt deeply unsettled.
He had left Cabinet Mountain and Floating Tortoise Mountain. Surely people ought to act a little more like people here?
Why were they only growing more treacherous and deceitful?
He had been vigilant enough on Cabinet Mountain and Floating Tortoise Mountain, yet here, he had let his guard down.
Reviewing everything inwardly, Luo Bin understood why.
He had relaxed because he trusted Zhang Yunxi.
He had relaxed because this was the "normal world."
But on second thought, was this normal world really normal?
Wasn't the environment he lived in just another place where people devoured one another?
They simply did it under respectable pretenses, using elegance to conceal their ugliness.
How could he let his guard down in such an environment?
His thoughts settled.
Luo Bin gestured for his visitor to leave.
Wen Qing's brow tightened. Then he cupped his hands in a deep salute, turned, and walked toward the courtyard gate.
Once Wen Qing had left, Luo Bin swiftly climbed onto the roof beam and retrieved the Legacy Book. Then he opened a window in the rear wall.
This side stood against a mountain cliff. A cloth pouch hung outside the window, holding the Emotion Flower Fruit he had taken from Shangguan Xingyue.
Luo Bin climbed through the window, closed it behind him, and tucked the pouch securely against his body.
Then he clambered up the damp cliff like an enormous gecko.
Although this was already the mountaintop, the vertical cliff still rose another fifteen or twenty meters. The entire courtyard