Soon.
Lian Wu Mountain was sealed off.
Si Kongbai warned every disciple of the Night Patrol Division that this matter must never be leaked, Wen Jiu included.
Just as Wen Jiu had expected, Si Kongbai immediately summoned dozens of people to search the mountain. They left no corner unchecked, and Wen Jiu couldn't escape the search either. He could only follow the main group, searching for three whole days.
As for that cold pool...
When Wen Jiu went back to look, there was nothing unusual left.
Some ghostly energy remained, but the people from the Night Patrol Division couldn't find anything.
Meanwhile...
During the daily settlement after midnight, Wen Jiu learned the Ghost Face Strange Flower's true name and purpose.
It was called Ghost Face Futu.
It was an exceedingly rare Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure.
Not only was it First-grade High-quality, it was also a special ghostly creature that grew only in the Blood Fiend Abyss. Just to make it bloom required the life force of over a hundred cultivators. To make it form a hideous ghost face required even more time and its original ghostly energy. In other words, the flower's keeper had to nourish it with their own body for at least ten years.
However, it was completely useless to ordinary people. It couldn't be used to refine pills or forge artifacts; in fact, it could even be called a deadly poison.
Forget eating it—even staying near it for too long could allow the ghostly energy it released to invade one's spirit, corrupting the victim until they were neither human nor ghost. They would become a ghost puppet, reduced to a source of nourishment for the Ghost Face Futu.
But to Yin Souls and ghost cultivators, it was a divine medicine. When its ghost face turned crimson,