Three days earlier.

  Just when Sima You Yue and Di Wu jumped off the city walls, they were in the heart of the forbidden area. A group of them were in the huge plaza.

  This plaza was different from other plazas. There were eighty-one one-metre-tall black stone pillars surrounding them. Four pillars towered in the four corners of the plaza. Each one was inscribed with a variety of ancient spirit beasts. In the centre of the plaza stood not a strong stone, but a giant pond.

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