"This place was really interesting."
Ying Gou's voice sounded, and I gave a bitter smile. "Yeah. An old man who could grant people's wishes, a skeleton woman, and a paper effigy man. Tell me, did this place really exist within Half-Step Zen Temple?"
Ying Gou said, "Very likely. I'd always felt that this so-called Half-Step Zen Temple was a strange place."
It really was strange.
But were we truly still inside Half-Step Zen Temple?
I couldn't be sure.
We headed toward the so-called "end." Though I said we, it was actually just me. Ying Gou was inside my body and didn't need to move himself.
He continued hiding, so even if something unexpected happened, I still had a trump card.
The closer I got to the "end," the fewer trees there were. Eventually, my view opened up. It was no longer pitch-black, but although it was much brighter than before, everything before me was shrouded in a layer of blood-red light.
Blood-red? I couldn't help looking up at the sky, searching for that crescent moon.
Could a Blood Moon really have appeared?
Sure enough, the pale lemon-yellow moon in the sky suddenly changed into a Blood Moon, and the crescent became a full moon.
How was that possible? In an instant, the crescent had turned into a full moon.
Yet the sight before me told me it was real.
"This is indeed rather eerie!" Ying Gou could use my point of view, so naturally he knew about the change as well.
This place looked like ruins. Yes, ruins. There wasn't a single building in sight, nor was there even the slightest trace of life.
I could only keep walking forward. Silently calculating in my heart, I figured I had walked another two kilometers or so before I finally saw an