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"": "The Three Mountains were not especially tall overall. North Peak stood in the middle and was already the highest, but compared with the mountains Luo Bin had climbed, it was still little more than a hill.
After a few ragged breaths, Luo Bin stopped again.
He had been stopping and starting the entire way. His physical condition really was terrible. With "Luo Bin's" body, he probably would have reached the summit long ago.
He could faintly hear a stream burbling nearby, and dark green moss began to appear around the roots of the surrounding trees.
Directly ahead stood a mound of earth with an opening about half a meter high.
The pitch-black entrance seemed capable of swallowing sunlight.
Loose gravel covered much of the surrounding ground, and the grass was short, clearly trampled year after year.
A mountain breeze blew down from above, carrying an even stronger rank stench.
Was this it?
The Crown Rats' nest?
Of course. Dragons begot dragons, phoenixes begot phoenixes, and a rat's offspring knew how to dig burrows.
Luo Bin had used rodent habits and the Yin-Yang Arts to determine the location, and his judgment had been entirely correct. It made perfect sense for the Crown Rats to live in a burrow.
Luo Bin surveyed his surroundings and found a spot with a better view. It happened to lie in the xun direction.
Once he reached the xun direction, bushes screened him from sight. There were no more large trees in front of him, allowing him to see opening after opening across the slope!
Those pitch-black entrances made it look as though the entire summit had been hollowed out into one enormous rat burrow!
Luo Bin still saw no sign of the Crown Rats.
He could be almost certain they