My eyelids twitched more violently.
Dealing with smart people can reduce trouble.
Dealing with Mr. Gong, however, brings no trouble at all!
At that time, I couldn't bring up Tang Yi's matter directly, but to my surprise, he had already anticipated it and was confident.
He immediately spoke a string of words, which were actually Tang Yi's birth date and eight characters.
Mr. Gong turned around and ran in the direction facing outward.
"We might ruin the secret of the Tian Shou Taoist Temple... This..." Si Yan's voice trembled with a touch of horror and hesitation.
"No, it's not us. Even if it were us, what's there to be afraid of?" My words were firm and resolute.
Si Yan was stunned, staring at my eyes in a daze.
After a long while, she pursed her lips and murmured, "What to be afraid of?"
Si Yan's eyes seemed to have changed slightly.
It was admiration, intertwined with the emotions I could not previously understand.
"All right, senior brother, what to fear?"
Suddenly, a unprecedented sparkle flashed in Si Yan's eyes.
I sighed slightly and gestured for Si Yan to move slightly to the left. The two of us moved slightly away from the tomb passage.
However, from this angle, we could see the entrance to the tomb passage, and even more so, the woods where the ghost had vanished.
Within less than ten minutes, the dark figures of people had rushed to the front of the tomb passage.
The group stopped, becoming extremely noisy and chaotic.
"Where's that ghost?! Why didn't it follow us?!" someone shouted.
Someone else roared in a low voice, "Be quiet! He didn't come, what's the rush? The words have already been made clear. He's still the ghost of the masked Taoist! I think that the masked Taoist wants to infiltrate the Tian Shou Taoist Temple as a spy!"
"Discovered the secret of this place, and then informed us, is to mess up the Tian Shou Taoist Temple!"
The person who said this was extremely tall and burly, draped in a raincoat and wearing a straw hat.
"How do you know!? Perhaps it's because his character is eccentric, he doesn't want to let others have the exclusive taste. Or maybe he doesn't have the confidence to break through here alone and brings us over?" someone in the crowd raised an opposing viewpoint.
My and Si Yan's faces, met each other.
"This place... doesn't have a single fool..." Si Yan was extremely vigilant, whispering to me to maintain my form and not be discovered by the group.
I slightly crouched down.
During this time, the conversation of that group did not cease.
The burly Taoist barked in a deep voice, "How could I not know? I've suffered at the hands of that bastard! Dammit, that ghost said his name is Liu Ziyu!"
"That's a Qiang person!"
"His nature is to kill us, those so-called mountain wild ghosts, whenever he doesn't agree with us."
"Jia Jin, who offended him, is dead. Tang Ji's group lost someone just upon their first encounter. They're trying to make use of that person's abilities, but they don't realize that person came here to cause trouble!"
"However, he knew he couldn't do it himself, which is why he let us know about Tian Gongquan!"
"This news, must be spread out! See, will this Tian Shou Taoist Temple still be peaceful?"
The burly Taoist, without hesitation, dived into the tomb passage the moment he finished speaking.
The crowd was extremely noisy, jostling to get a better position by the entrance.
At this moment, someone unknown shouted that there was a fire!
From the outside direction, there erupted a dense glow of flames!
However, no one went back. Everyone, greedily waited to enter the tomb passage!
The crowd moved quickly. Within about twenty minutes, everyone in front of us had entered the tomb passage!
From the outside direction, flames were also shooting into the sky!
My eyelids twitched slightly.
I wonder if Liu Ziyu's ears are burning at the moment.
By some twist of fate, I've actually sent him a great merit.
Mr. Gong's figure appeared from a distance.
As he approached us, Mr. Gong was scratching his armpit as if it were itching.
Si Yan furrowed her brow slightly, adding a trace of disapproval to her eyes.
"Grandpa, let's go!"
In the other hand, Mr. Gong was holding a compass.
After using the compass for a long time, the grey mist dispersed, and the body that had borrowed its soul was starting to rot, revealing the hand bones.
Without hesitation, I and Si Yan followed Mr. Gong at a rapid pace forward.
It was obvious that after I had previously told Mr. Gong about his birth date and eight characters, he had certainly cast a divination during this period. He showed no hesitation about the direction.
We quickly distanced ourselves from the previous location.
The flames became more ferocious. Even from a very far distance, we could still see the outside direction, with thick smoke billowing up.
Suddenly, Mr. Gong's head detached from the female Taoist's corpse. Just then, he flung out the compass, falling into my hand.
After I held it tightly, Mr. Gong settled on my shoulder and began to explain the direction to me.
The two of us and the ghost moved swiftly through the forest. Soon, we encountered extremely steep, almost vertical cliff faces. If it weren't for my and Si Yan's sufficient strength, we wouldn't have been able to pass such places.
There's no path here.
It was the direction calculated by Mr. Gong's divination that we painstakingly walked through.
Just then, Si Yan suddenly said, "Something seems off..."
"Ice Mountain Maiden, what's wrong?" Mr. Gong tilted his head and looked at Si Yan.
"You said, there are many corpses in the tomb passage."
"That means that people are dying inside the tomb passage at regular intervals? It's not possible for anyone to find that tomb passage on their own. Even if there is a message deliberately left out to make people look for it, not everyone can find it."
"There are ghosts in the tomb passage that eat people. Is she guarding the tomb, or is someone deliberately letting people go inside to feed her?"
Si Yan spoke quickly.
"Tian Gongquan... really does exist?" She looked confused.
Si Yan's analysis rendered Mr. Gong speechless.
It made me even more terrified.
If... there is no Tian Gongquan here, in fact, it's a scam...
Why would the Tian Shou Taoist Temple go to such lengths for a fierce ghost?
Or perhaps they selectively eliminate the useful ones, and use the useless ones to feed the ghosts?
Who is that ghost, and what kind of person deserves to be treated this way?
"Ice Mountain Maiden, you're mistaken."
Mr. Gong's eyes were shrewd, whispering, "Whether there is or not, it's here. Unless all those people died here."
"Otherwise, it's like a yellow mud splashed on one's pants, actually this Jianghuang City Taoist Temple is not short of them. But why no one targeted the Tian Shou Taoist Temple? The interests are inconsistent. No one wants to confront the Tian Shou Taoist Temple forcefully, making them become stronger and stronger!"
"How many immortals would be unable to contain themselves at the thought of being able to solve the Three Corpse WORMs!"
"Grandpa, do you think that's right?"
Mr. Gong's voice paused, and he immediately gave me another direction.
My heart was pounding faster and faster, and I nodded to agree with Mr. Gong's words.
However, I still found something.
It was a piece of immaculate scapula.
If all goes well...
The female ghost should be Shasuo!
"Causing such a fuss, if there's a way, we should wound the Tian Shou Daoists." I whispered hoarsely.
"Grandpa... what are you doing?! Don't be desperate!"
Mr. Gong shuddered, and his head shook like a teapot, full of fear.
