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"": "The people of Thousand Miao Village had no reason to harbor inexplicable hostility toward him.
Lou Fang, the headman, already held power.
Granny Li stood even higher.
Both of them had accepted him.
Anyone who still bore him ill will, then, had to have a conflict of interests.
At Miao Gu's age, this surely wasn't his first time taking a disciple.
Especially since Miao Lan had challenged his qualifications and demanded to know what gave him the right three times in a row. He had practically shoved his identity in Luo Bin's face.
"You talk too much."
"In a moment, you won't have so much to say."
At some point, a round, palm-sized object had appeared in Miao Lan's hand.
He raised it to his lips and blew softly.
It was an ocarina.
Its notes began low, then stretched into a long, haunting melody.
A faint rustling sounded.
A centipede as long as a forearm suddenly burrowed out of the ground straight ahead!
The vicious-looking centipede rushed toward Luo Bin!
Luo Bin retreated three steps.
The ocarina's notes turned shrill.
It was as though they were saying, "Run! Do you think you can get away?"
He had already stepped onto the hexagram position.
Luo Bin was just about to speak.
In that split second, something bulged against his chest, and the white-furred Fourth Master Gray shot out!
He let out a piercing squeak, as if trying to stop Luo Bin!
A white blur flashed past!
The centipede could no longer advance. Its body writhed desperately.
A section of its body was missing.
The most crucial section-its head...
Fourth Master Gray crouched on the ground, crunching away.
The greater part of the centipede's body curled up into a lifeless clump.
Miao Lan grunted and froze.
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