The ghost that had arrived so suddenly and left just as suddenly gave Wu Heng a very strange feeling.
It did not seem like the kind of ghost that acted purely on instinct, yet it also did not seem to possess intelligence. There was a sense of contradiction.
"What exactly was its purpose? Did it come just to watch a show?"
Unable to reach an answer, Wu Heng turned his gaze back to the Welcoming Ghost Road before him.
At the instant the ghost road was completed, the rejection between the Black Coffin and the node passage vanished. Wailing and sobbing echoed endlessly along the ghost road before him, while chilling winds howled without cease. The entire road twisted like a living creature.
It was like a road paved by a Ten Thousand Souls Banner that contained vicious ghosts.
At that moment, the entire Black Coffin suddenly trembled, followed by a surge of imposing energy. Its oppressive presence, capable of isolating ghosts, was fully released.
Every ghost rushing in from the surrounding area was brushed by that wave, halted in its tracks, and slowly departed.
It was like facing a Chikuai Silver Mine vein.
Only, this aura that repelled ghosts was more than ten times stronger than that of a mine vein.
Even an unmined vein, with the Chikuai Silver it contained, could absolutely seal ghostly relics. Yet the vein itself merely made ghosts loathe it, much as realgar repelled snakes.
Ghosts could still force their way through and enter the mine vein.
But the Black Coffin was completely different.
Its expulsion was more like using a broom to sweep away approaching snakes—an extremely efficient method of driving them off.
However, the aura that autonomously spread out to repel ghosts also carried the Black Coffin's own presence. Wu Heng had