Zhang Yuchen's words made everyone's hearts tighten as we all looked toward the pool.
Sure enough, white Yin mist was once again rising from the pool not far away.
It was the same Yin mist we had encountered when we first arrived.
It carried a heavy fishy, salty stench, thick with sea vapor...
Not only that, if we looked beneath the water—
we could see white figures struggling at the bottom of the pool, emerging one after another.
There were quite a few of them, but they were all evil spirits with poor sea transformation, perhaps only ten or twenty percent transformed...
Based on my judgment, evil spirits with such a low degree of sea transformation could swim out of Blackwater Pool and reach our side.
But those with a high degree of sea transformation would be attacked by the enormous Yin beasts within Blackwater Pool.
The sight made us all nervous.
"Master, they're the ordinary ghosts that have undergone sea transformation!
There are so many of them. They're about to come out."
Gan Yue spoke.
Seeing this, all of us immediately drew our ritual implements.
I spoke at once.
"Uncle Yu, Old Zhang, let's go!"
Daoist Feiyun also hurriedly shouted,
"Leave this place now!"
With that, we turned and ran.
Now that we had obtained the Heavenly Keystone, who would want to remain here any longer?
Our group began running outward, intending to leave this mist-shrouded forest.
We had not run far when we saw some lost ghosts darting and scrambling through the woods.
They appeared to be ghosts that had escaped from Yin Mist Forest earlier.
Waves of fishy wind and sea vapor whooshed up behind us.
Thicker mist surged forth, while hoarse voices rose one after another behind us.
"Heavenly Keystone..."
"Heavenly Keystone..."
"..."
The voices were