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Chapter 49 Fear Is Omnipresent
The moon and stars were pale in the quiet night.
The inhabitants of Luoyang City had been struggling in the stifling heat for an entire day. The clouds that had gathered into a thick mass just before nightfall was so close to the ground that they seemed so close to touching the faraway Jinshan Temple.
It was so stuffy that people could hardly breathe. Even cicadas, crickets, and toads had lost their zeal to bellow their grievances, only emitting weak cries when they simply couldn't bear the heat. First, the clouds obscured the moonlight. Then came the faint rumbling of thunder. One could even see bolts of lightning flashing in the crevices of the clouds. It seemed that a rainstorm was coming.
A group of silhouettes sped along the path leading to the Extinctive Sword Manor House from the direction of Luoyang City.
In no time at all, Ye Que showed up in the vicinity of the Manor House. Following right behind him were no less than
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