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Sword Mountain Pass was far behind Li Yuan’s party now.
The empty towns they passed looked like ghost towns.
Truthfully, in these times, even finding a single-entity ghost domain was rare. Give it a few more years, and the ghost domains themselves would fade into myth, barely remembered.
However, beneath one of those towns, in a corner few would notice, there was a small, forgotten courtyard house. And below that house, a faint rustling sound had begun.
Sunlight had only just reached this place, melting the frost off rooftops and walls.
Water ran in rivulets through the streets. The yellow earth was cracked and furrowed, like the weathered skin of an old man.
The rustling beneath the house could easily be mistaken for nothing more than melting ice.
But beneath the surface lay a vast underground chamber, larger, even, than the courtyard above.
Buried deep enough that no sound from the outside world could reach it.
More than that, the only passage linking it to the surface had long since been sealed with molten iron. The only connection left was a tiny ventilation hole high above.
It was a place meant to be completely cut off from the world.
And as the frost thawed, what emerged from the darkness was…people.
Or at least, things that looked like people, flesh intact, faces lifelike, skin full and r...
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