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At the early Hai hour, before anything had happened in Zhaoyang County,
on a small path ten miles north of the official road to the east of the town, three young figures were weaving through the dense forest. Leading the group were a man and a woman whose cultivation was clearly more profound, and they were hurrying the person in the middle forward together.
"Senior Brother, this is my first time taking a small path; could there be ghosts and demons causing trouble?"
Tian Honglu glanced back at the dense jungle with a hint of fear in her voice.
"I don't know. I only took a small path once when I was going to Dongyang County five years ago. Elder Lu led the team then, and we had over forty people. We encountered a fox demon on the way and lost more than ten people before we finally escaped with our lives!"
Tian Honglu immediately exclaimed in shock, "Elder Lu has reached the Gathering Evil Phase in his cultivation, and he couldn't overcome an ordinary fox demon?"
