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"": "The room was cramped, with the bed beside the window and a candle burning at one side of its head, its light flickering.
Luo Bin sat leaning beside the window, holding the dull gray Corpse Core.
Fourth Master Gray emerged, his tiny eyes fixed on the Corpse Core and his forepaws rubbing together, but he showed no intention of eating it.
Luo Bin had experienced the effects firsthand and knew what would happen if it was swallowed directly. Fourth Master Gray could not withstand it either.
After a long while, he put the Corpse Core away.
Looking out at the night, Luo Bin actually felt some of his tension ease in this environment, so quiet that it seemed oppressive and gloomy.
In a city of steel and concrete, everything might seem bright and open, but deadly threats lurked out of sight.
He stood in the open, while his enemies were usually hidden.
Only somewhere like this made Luo Bin feel he could lie low. He, too, could remain in the shadows and control the variables and risks.
Cabinet Mountain had made lying low an essential part of his nature.
"Squeak, squeak."
Fourth Master Gray let out a cry, half his body already poking out the window.
"Since we're here, we should settle in. If we don't follow the rules, we really might die."
"You've survived all these years. Attaining your level of cultivation wasn't easy."
"My instincts tell me that Thousand Miao Village is probably no less formidable than Sawu Mountain, where you came from, or Cabinet Mountain, where you were trapped for over twenty years."
"Gu-Bound People."
"Miao Gu is a Gu-Bound Person."
"He should be a lucid Gu-Bound Person. The others aren't lucid." Luo Bin spoke calmly.
Fourth Master Gray drew his head