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"": "In the small courtyard beside the Bamboo Grove, light from the Oil Lamp seeped through the window cracks, casting several vertical bars on the ground.
Gu Yiren lay in bed. The screams rising and falling outside did not disturb her much.
She had been back in Cabinet Mountain Village for a long time-at least several months.
She had seen Zhang Li.
Zhang Li had come knocking on her door.
She was miserable, grief-stricken.
Zhong Zhicheng had come to see her. She had told him many things: about Cabinet Mountain Town, about Luo Bin's failure and death, and about her plan to break Cabinet Mountain.
Zhong Zhicheng believed her.
Yet when they tried their old method, it no longer worked.
If they followed the Evil Spirit before dawn, it would still turn around. That time, it had nearly gutted Zhong Zhicheng.
Afterward, the Evil Spirit would disappear into the white mist.
Without being able to follow the Evil Spirit, even stepping onto the hillside at the precise instant of daybreak was useless. The hillside was simply the one beside Cabinet Mountain Village. They could not reach anywhere else.
And... Si was gone.
Ever since she returned to Cabinet Mountain Village, Si had never appeared again.
With no leads left, Gu Yiren spent every day in misery.
Bright sunlight spilled across the car window, gently warming Luo Bin's cheek.
Their journey over the past few days had been far too slow. Still, Shangguan Xingyue really was in poor health and needed to recover.
Along the way, Luo Bin reviewed how he had killed Zhang Yunjin, deepening his understanding of the Primordial Sixteen Trigrams.
He knew exactly where the difficulty lay with these techniques. He also vaguely understood that using them at will required more than