The Flower Demons, whose lair lay deep withinthe Enchanted Flower Forest, several hundred lis south of Willow Village, were forced to vacate their hiding place almost twenty years ago when Xie Jianyu and Zhang Fengxi ambushed them in order to to rescue Liu Wenyuan from their clutches.
After the passage of many years, the Flower Demons re-emerged in the Human Realm, employing a significantly altered modus operandi.
Xie Junjie, who had yet to differentiate into any secondary gender, had no difficulties in disguising himself as an unsuspecting male human being.
To conceal his high level of cultivation, he took care to seal his meridians before venturing into the forest and confronting the maze.
A ghostly white mist, emerging from the unseen, swiftly enveloped him. When he looked up, the canopy of leaves above had been replaced by an unsettling, milky void.
Even a fool could discern the unnatural origin of this sudden descent.
