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"": "According to what Qin Tianqing had said earlier, the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds Traitors were scattered along the various trails throughout Heavenly Mechanism Mountain. Only some of them were at the Heart-Peering Grounds.
The three of them had been following the trails all along, making their chances of encountering traitors as high as possible. Not meeting any by now could hardly be a mere coincidence of their route. Most likely, the traitors wanted to avoid trouble and no longer wanted to kill Qin Tianqing?
Of course, that reluctance would have been because of Luo Bin and Zhang Yunxi.
Perhaps they did not want to lose any more men, and letting Qin Tianqing leave would save them some trouble?
Or perhaps... it was because of Shangguan Xingyue.
Had they already paid a considerable price trying to capture her?
Luo Bin analyzed the possibilities.
Qin Tianqing and Zhang Yunxi began retreating, and Luo Bin followed. There were no forks here anymore, so they could only rely on their sense of direction to head toward the proper path down the mountain.
Once they were away from the gray-green miasma poison fog, Qin Tianqing looked much better, and Zhang Yunxi grew considerably calmer too.
At that very moment.
Inside a side hall somewhere in the Heart-Peering Grounds.
Shangguan Xingyue stood at the threshold, supporting herself against the wall.
She had remained in that position for a very, very long time.
The front of her clothes was covered in blood. She seemed to be swaying on her feet, ready to collapse at any moment.
About five malformed corpses lay scattered inside and outside the side hall.
Earlier, after killing the man with the collapsed nose and thick lips, she had intended to continue chasing after Luo Bin, only