The Secret Realm in Jiaxiang Town was actually connected to the little stream winding through the town.
Following the stream through some rather treacherous terrain would bring one to a fairly large pool.
This was the source of Jiaxiang Town's stream, and the Secret Realm lay hidden deep within the pool.
Strictly speaking, Jiaxiang Town was not a particularly good place. Within a hundred miles, this was the only relatively flat ground, surrounded on all sides by either mountains or a sizable river.
The location was somewhat isolated, and many roads had never been extended outward. Leaving required traveling quite a stretch of rough road.
Li Xingtian actually had a preliminary theory-the villagers of Jiaxiang Town might be tomb keepers left behind by a Mahayana mighty figure.
After all, besides hiding their tombs deep away, such mighty figures naturally had other methods, such as-finding people to watch over them.
Otherwise, there was almost no explaining why Jiaxiang Town's villagers cared so much about this stream.
But time passed, and mountains and rivers changed.
Who knew what had happened to Jiaxiang Town to cause all that information to be lost completely?
All that remained was a tradition passed down from ancient times-protecting the stream-which they still observed.
Xu Linglong took the lead.
Li Xingtian followed the demoness carefully and cautiously.
His master had set up a broad encirclement, with three inner layers and three outer layers. The three outer layers were outside Jiaxiang Town, while the three inner layers would only close in after Xu Linglong entered the Secret Realm.
The farther Xu Linglong walked, the more lines of encirclement surrounded her.
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