The instant the primordial spirits shattered, Sun Jianming and the others felt their vision blur. The once tidy ground became overgrown with weeds, and the towering walls around them immediately turned dilapidated.
Seeing this scene, how could they not know that they had been deceived by ghosts and had walked straight into a ghost den?
Recalling all the tales they had heard of evil ghosts eating people, their legs went weak, and they collapsed to the ground.
Meanwhile, the female ghosts were torn between joy and worry. With the Ghost Tree's primordial spirit destroyed, the restrictions on them vanished as well, restoring their freedom.
But their current situation was clearly a case of escaping the wolf's den only to enter the tiger's mouth. Their lives and deaths were still not theirs to decide!
"Th-this brother, save—"
Frightened out of his wits, Sun Jianming cried out as he crawled toward Luo Hong like a maggot.
Luo Hong merely flicked his sleeve, summoning a gust that blew them out of the temple and erased their memories of the past day or two.
Leaving aside the strange tales that arose in the Great Gan capital after these mortals rode the wind there, the White-robed Female Ghost reacted swiftly. With a slap, she knelt before Luo Hong atop the hot spring.
"High Immortal, spare our lives! We are merely little ghosts from the wilderness. We only harmed people because Ancestor ordered us to; we had no choice!"
Seeing this, the remaining female ghosts all knelt as well and pleaded:
"Yes, yes! I had only just married back then. I had heard that praying for children at this temple was quite effective, so I came here to burn incense and pray for blessings. Yet I was harmed by Ancestor and have been enslaved by him