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"": ""You Yin-Yang Practitioners... do you deal with these things all the time?"
"Blood-red... blue-green... aren't you scared?"
"That... doesn't seem right, does it?"
Miao Miao was clearly only pretending to be calm.
"I'm not really sure. Probably? Maybe?"
Luo Bin gave an ambiguous answer.
He was no ordinary Yin-Yang Practitioner. He had started halfway through life, receiving half his inheritance from Yuan Yinxin and having Shangguan Xingyue complete the other half. After that, he had spent his days walking the line between life and death, never following the usual course of a Yin-Yang Practitioner's training.
As a result, he lacked much of their common knowledge.
Miao Miao pressed her lips together again.
"I'll ask Mr. Yunxi when we get back. After all, I haven't been doing this for long. All I know is Mountain-and-Water Divination, and most of my experiences so far have involved mountains and water."
As Luo Bin explained, he looked up at the sky. "There's no telling how long the rain or thunder will last. Once the thunderstorm stops, the lake-thunder following hexagram will break, and the mountain-wind gu hexagram will stir. We need to leave now and keep going straight ahead. If I remember correctly, we should reach the big river at the foot of the mountain. The confluence carries the meaning of a hexagram too, so we'll be safe there. Then we can take a detour to the spot directly opposite the entrance to Thousand Miao Village, pass through the Mountain Cave there, and get back to the village?"
"Yes, but not entirely. There is water farther ahead, but as I remember it, it's a pool. Granny Li said it was forbidden ground."
"Once we passed through the cave, we entered the interior of Three Perils Mountain. We can't walk