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"": "Luo Bin began focusing on their bearing.
The boat kept moving, so he could not pin down their exact position.
Broadly speaking, they were somewhere between northeast and north, which fell under the Dispersing Hexagram of the Primordial Sixteen Trigrams.
The Dispersing Hexagram represented wanderers, boatmen, mountain dwellers... and so on.
In some intangible way, certain things seemed to fit.
Dispersion also symbolized scattering, collapse, and separation...
Could that have some unseen connection to what had happened to Qin Jiumo?
However, the Dispersing Hexagram occupied the first and eighth palaces of Qimen, near the original positions of the Rest Gate and Life Gate among the Eight Gates. This was not an ominous place, and they were still on the very outermost edge of the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds. Surely there should not be any danger?
About an hour later, the foot of the mountain curved to the right. Once the boat rounded the bend, the mountains on either side changed abruptly.
The sheer mountain walls looked as though an axe had cleaved them apart.
The river narrowed to no more than twenty meters across.
Against those immense mountains, that narrow stretch of water was nothing.
Luo Bin still could not see where the danger lay.
About half an hour later, Wei Dong switched off the engine and began propelling the boat with an oar.
Two minutes later, the boat stopped.
A cavern opened in the mountain wall, roughly two meters high and two meters wide, reaching deep into the mountain.
The river's main channel still carried water down from upstream, while a tributary joined it here.
Without consulting the map, Wei Dong stared at the opening and murmured, "We go in here and pass through this mountain. It's like a tunnel through the water."
Luo