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The footsteps were barely perceptible, so faint that even Xu Renli could scarcely detect them. It was more an intuition than anything else.

To put it precisely, the room now harbored the presence of an intruder, an aura that, while reminiscent of the bamboo on Boundless Mountain, was starkly out of place.

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In the shroud of darkness