The dangers of Ten Thousand Ghost Forest came not only from Evil Spirits and elusive curses.
There were also some indescribable anomalous areas.
In these places, one often encountered dangers that were difficult to understand. For example, while walking along, someone might suddenly sink into the ground as if falling into a swamp, and even after their companions dug thirty meters down, they could not find a trace of them.
If they were lucky.
Perhaps a long time later, some adventurer would discover their corpses in the woods.
By then.
Their bodies would already have grown together with a large tree.
Apart from their bones.
Their entire bodies would have become "woodified."
The tree would be an ordinary tree, and the person would still be that person, but no one knew why such a thing happened.
For another example.
Some people had discovered strange creatures in the mountains and forests.
It was difficult to say what they were.
They looked human.
But their behavior was clearly different from that of humans.
Yet if you asked how they were different.
No one could explain it.
Most importantly, for hundreds of years, countless adventurers had claimed to have seen them. In reality, however, no one had ever captured one of these entities, nor had anyone even found a corpse.
Instead, most of those who formed teams specifically to search for them disappeared.
They existed in the forest.
But they also seemed not to belong to the same spacetime as everyone else.
They could be seen.
But not touched.
Trying to approach them would also bring danger.
These anomalous areas had all been marked on maps, becoming safe routes formed from blood coagulated over the course of centuries.
Maps were sold in the towns.
Jiang Qiao had obtained one from the innkeeper.
But