"What's going on?"
Jiang Qiao looked back at the tomb passage behind him in shock.
It was utterly silent.
The Black Water that had chased and tried to kill the four of them all the way here had vanished without a trace, leaving no sign that it had ever existed.
The others stopped as well.
They turned back to look, their faces equally filled with surprise and confusion.
"Different spaces?"
Dragon Tiger Daoist spoke doubtfully.
Having heard Jiang Qiao explain the principles of Deep Space, his first reaction was that they had entered different spaces.
"That's possible."
Jiang Qiao nodded.
"Boxia."
"Release a Vicious Ghost and have it go into the tomb passage to take a look."
He instructed.
"Alright."
Shen Boxia did not waste any words.
With a wave of his palm, he released the light, floating Vicious Ghost that had appeared when they slaughtered the corpses in the tomb chamber.
Its body was flat, like a silhouette.
It looked extremely strange.
The moment it appeared, several Vicious Ghosts, under Shen Boxia's command, returned to the tomb passage.
"These ghosts are one entity."
Shen Boxia explained, "They look like several ghosts, but they're actually different parts of a single Vicious Ghost. Once something is tainted by them, its instincts will be erased."
"I see." Jiang Qiao nodded.
The Vicious Ghosts entered the tomb passage.
At first, everything was normal, and nothing unusual seemed to be happening.
But after they had walked forward for a while—
roughly twenty meters—
the people standing at the entrance suddenly saw large wet patches appear across their bodies. The dampness had appeared so abruptly that none of them had seen any water.
"As expected."
"Different spaces."
Jiang Qiao's pupils contracted. His third-tier "Dual Pupils" barely allowed him to see faint ripples appear in that