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"": "Luo Bin stepped into the Mountain Forest, his silhouette gradually overlapping with the shadows of the trees. Fourth Master Gray finally noticed something was wrong. He pressed his head against Luo Bin's face and kept whipping his mouth with his tail.
His squeaks then grew much quieter. He meant, "Madness, absolute madness! Someone on Sawu Mountain dared lay hands on you, kid? I'd like to see who's got the guts. Aren't they afraid the old man will skin them?"
Luo Bin: "..."
In the dead of night, only Fourth Master Gray had noticed anything amiss. Yet instead of finding someone to warn, he kept chattering away on Luo Bin's shoulder. They were probably going to miss their chance.
"Croak, croak." The Black-Gold Toad called out repeatedly.
Fourth Master Gray answered with two squeaks, meaning, "What are you burbling about? Without me looking after you, look how weak you've become. You've shrunk back into a baby toad. Anyone who didn't know better would think you were a wood frog."
Then Fourth Master Gray burrowed into Luo Bin's collar.
At first, Fourth Master Gray had feared the Black-Gold Toad and its poison. But after holding so many corpse cores in his mouth and eating so much Ascended Corpse flesh, he could no longer be harmed by the Black-Gold Toad's venom.
The woods grew denser, and the mountaintop grew more distant.
The full moon had been visible overhead, but now the luxuriant branches and leaves blocked most of the view.
At last, a figure standing on tiptoe appeared.
It was a ghost.
They had reached the burial grounds.
After another long, long walk, stretches of graves came into view. The ghostly figures grew scarce because there were more Great Ghosts here. Besides, these were all Spirit Mediums' graves,