Black, intact skeletons appeared all around in various poses. Their hollow eye sockets, just like before, silently gazed at the living beings who had stepped into this place.
The viscous white fog and dense Yin Qi gradually began to thin as Pei Ling advanced.
Sparse, spindly shrubs gradually took the place of the skeletons, appearing more and more often.
They crouched in clumps in hollows on the ground, their concealment imbued with a furtive eeriness.
In the blink of an eye, the clouds parted and the fog dispersed. An utterly ordinary, unremarkable Earthen House stood quietly before him, its thatched eaves hanging low.
Pei Ling emerged from the white fog, his face expressionless, and appeared in the open space before the Earthen House.
The Fu Xuanxu from before had been a Ghostly Being in disguise. The real Fu Xuanxu was most likely still inside the Earthen House before him.
Even Fu Xuanxu's Main Body could be fake. The incarnation who had first appeared might well have been suspect too!
No—not just that incarnation. The Vengeful Souls he had sent out just now might be suspect as well!
At that thought, Pei Ling swiftly opened the Soul Nurturing Bag and incinerated all those Vengeful Souls into ash in an instant.
Having dealt with the Vengeful Souls, Pei Ling headed straight for the Earthen House.
He had two options now.
The first was to return directly to the teahouse and ask the True Immortal Will how to handle a situation like this. The second was to enter the Earthen House and investigate what was really going on inside.
The first option seemed safe, but at its root, it wouldn't solve a single problem.
The True Immortal Will would continue making him and Senior Sister Li and the others search for Law power.