Late that night.
Inside a hidden cavern in Westwind Valley.
"Master Xuanzhi, how did you know there was an underground cavern here in Westwind Valley? It wasn't even marked on the map sold by the Relic-Seeking Studio."
Xu Taiping asked Xuanzhi with some curiosity.
Without knowing where the entrance was, this underground cavern would have been difficult to find even if one deliberately searched for it.
"You may not know this, Brother Xu, but generations of monks from the Cloud-Hidden Temple have traveled this route through the Blood Rain Forest countless times during their ascetic journeys. We are more familiar with the terrain here than ordinary cultivators."
The young Monk Xuanzhi was feeding medicine to the gravely wounded Red Armor Cavalry rider. Only after hearing the question did he turn toward Xu Taiping and answer with a smile.
"I see."
Xu Taiping nodded thoughtfully, then sat down beside the stove.
"Then, Master Xuanzhi, do you know whether there's a place resembling palace ruins in the Blood Rain Forest?"
Xu Taiping asked Monk Xuanzhi another question.
This was precisely the place he had seen in the second vision of the sixth tribulation.
He had originally intended to ask Xuanzhi about it back in Mulberry Wood Valley, but the Mountain Sprite's appearance had thrown everything into disarray.
"Brother Xu, isn't the place you're describing Golden Toad Valley?"
Monk Xuanzhi looked at Xu Taiping in surprise.
"Golden Toad Valley?"
At this, Xu Taiping frowned and turned his gaze toward the gravely wounded Red Armor Cavalry rider on the ground.
Before falling unconscious, this rider had wanted him to rescue Wan Qianhu, who was in Golden Toad Valley.
"This makes things rather troublesome."
He murmured to himself.
With the seven-kill tribulation planted upon him, nothing Xu Taiping encountered could possibly be a coincidence.
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