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Lu Xiu, top scholar in the Bingwu year of the previous dynasty, the eighth County Magistrate of Ning County, one of the many victims under the Heaven Fox, but also the only one besides Xuan Yu who went through a death ordeal and survived.
Having faced death once, Lu Xiu seemed to possess a certain quality, a kind of unusual feeling that Xu Qing had also seen in Xuan Yu, Master Jingxu, and Zhao Zhonghe.
Recalling how the nameless old woman once went through great lengths to seek out the Undead People, Witch lineage, Cheng Huang, and the Nine-Tailed White Fox's past, Xu Qing was lost in thought.
According to the old woman's logic, only those who have experienced death can avoid the gaze of the Nine Netherworld corpses and the Celestial Emperor from the Upper Realm, thus qualifying to encounter the Netherworld's treasures.
But he always felt that Lu Xiu was not entirely the same as him and Xuan Yu.