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On the edge of the Silent Forest.
In the clearing under the Return Soul Poplar.
Five figures clad in dragon skin robes were seated in two rows, quietly sitting cross-legged in the snow. Zheng Qing was in the front, with the other four behind, sitting a step away from their team leader.
The dragon skin hunting gear they wore was what Xin Fat Man had been incessantly talking about before, costing the Absolution Hunting Team a significant amount of their funds, depleting the already tight resources of the team due to the store— had it not been for Zheng Qing's ability to prepare talismans, Fat Man's help in concocting essential magic potions, and the Elder's knack for procuring second-hand tools from his brother, the Absolution Hunting Team wouldn't even need to set out to declare the winter hunting mission a failure.
