The Heart Fire burned ever fiercer, Spleen Earth grew ever heavier, and the power of the Five Elements Talisman barrier continued to multiply.
This "catastrophe" Ji Li had personally created was no longer simply about forcing out the ghosts. He had thoroughly disrupted Old Yu Street's original ecosystem and triggered certain changes that should not have occurred.
On the human side, his actions had set people onto different paths. Some faced uncertain futures, while others took the opportunity to scheme.
Ji Li saw every one of them clearly through his Dynamic Perspective, red at its base, yet he could not care less.
Within this barrier, personally orchestrated by humans, Ji Li, standing at the formation's core, cared only about the ghosts.
With the Ghost Heart, Dream Ghost, and Evil Spirit empowering it from three sides, the Five Elements Talisman barrier became the catalyst for an unexpected result.
A ghost tide had appeared.
The white mist was mere decoration in Ji Li's Dynamic Perspective. He could see every ghost that emerged with perfect clarity.
So far, ghosts had emerged from each of the remaining seventeen floors, excluding the Eighteenth Floor, in greater or smaller numbers. There were thirty-nine ghosts in total, and that number was still climbing.
The ghosts from 201, 1001, 1414, and 1413 were all among them.
Among the Supernatural Rooms belonging to the staff, only three had not released any ghosts.
They were: a room on the first floor—101, which Ji Li did not yet know about—Unit 1002, and Number 1818, which was suspected to be the location of the final Mysterious Staff Member.
It could be said that, with the barrier operating to this extent, every ghost capable of emerging had already been exposed.
Yet what truly surprised Ji Li was that the ghost tide was nowhere