Song Wanyi glanced at Liu Xiaomiao's hesitant expression and immediately spoke up for her. "Since Xiaomiao doesn't want to go, let's take a detour, Master. [Ran^wen^Book Repository]"
"Miss Song, this is the only road around here that leads straight to Dalong County. It's not like we're near the Ten-Thousand Mountains Clubhouse. If we take another detour, we'd have to head north along the road to the clubhouse, and we'd be several days late. You know what the lord's condition is like right now. We should just charge straight through. The village doesn't look very big. The lord can take us across with a few uses of the Shrinking Earth Technique." Jiang Han voiced what I was thinking.
"Exactly. Besides, that scream just now sounded terribly anguished. I really want to know what happened, so we can't just let it go! If some ghost is bullying other living beings, then whenever it's within our power, we should draw our swords to help those who suffer injustice." I shook my head and rejected Song Wanyi's suggestion as well.
I had rested on the Swift-Traveling Ghost for most of the day and recovered quite a bit of strength. If we ran into trouble inside, I could eat an immortal herb to deal with it.
But just as I was preparing to enter, Liu Xiaomiao grabbed me. "The one screaming is my... junior sister."
"What? Then we have to save her even more!" I exclaimed in surprise. No matter how I thought about it, saving a life was better than building a seven-tiered pagoda, and the same surely applied to saving a ghost.
"Ahhh!" The woman's anguished scream rang out again. I knew that ghost definitely wouldn't die, but at the very least, the pain was unavoidable.
"Do you and your junior sister have