The Root Ghost of Tiannan Academy said it was innocent.
On this point, Ji Li was actually willing to believe it.
This ghost was very unusual. It had occupied this place for an exceedingly long time, and its strength no longer needed proof.
Yet even it found it difficult to defy Tianhai Hotel's missions. It had passively become the mission location and served as the "villain."
Ji Li had learned some information from Yu Guo, Tong Guan, and the others.
In the normal Tiannan Academy, the Root Ghost killed by disguising the identities of faculty and students, using the school rules to evade the ghosts' killings.
It possessed its own academy system.
However, in this mission, it had merely played a greater role in building the mission's framework and had not personally killed anyone.
Ji Li had previously guessed that it and Heavenly Sea had reached some sort of deal. Presumably, the academy becoming the mission location was precisely that deal.
And this deal was very likely passive and unequal.
That was why it had said that, like Lu Jingting, it too was an innocent victim.
But Ji Li did not entirely agree with that statement. At the very least, the Root Ghost had its own selfish intentions concerning him.
It wanted to place a bet on him.
Ji Li's gamble with Heavenly Sea should reach its conclusion this year.
Moreover, six special ghosts had already placed bets on Ji Li in different ways.
Now that Ji Li had become the dean of Tiannan Academy, it meant that the Root Ghost was also using this mission to continue raising the stakes on him.
As the mission site, it had no authority to interfere too much with the Mission Progress, but it had indeed done everything in its power to make