After I finished speaking, Blazing Fire and I stepped aside to clear a path.
Seeing this, the recovered ghosts still did not dare move at first.
I continued, "What are you afraid of? If I wanted to harm you, I wouldn't have saved you. If you want to leave, hurry up! If that demonic Daoist has accomplices who return, you won't be able to get away."
At those words, the hesitant ghosts all revealed shocked expressions.
Then, one of the bolder ones hurriedly nodded at me. "Thank you, thank you, Daoist priest, thank you, Daoist priest. My... my graveyard, my graveyard is not far away. I'll... I'll leave first, leave first!"
With that, the bolder ghost carefully made his way out along the other side of the wall.
As he passed Blazing Fire and me, he was tense to the extreme.
Once he had gone a little farther, he broke into a run, eventually turning into a wisp of yin wind and vanishing...
With the first one taking the lead, many more ghosts began rushing outside.
Some thanked me, while others said nothing.
I did not care about any of that. Doing good and accumulating virtue was part of my own cultivation.
Whether others felt grateful or not, whether they thanked me or not, was unimportant.
Some also asked for my Daoist title and Dharma name, but this was the territory of the Nine Corpse Daoist's disciple. If the Nine Corpse Daoist noticed and came here, caught a ghost, and learned my Daoist title, it might affect my plan against Yin Nine Corpse Daoist.
So I did not tell them, only urged them to leave.
In the end, out of more than a hundred ghosts, only a dozen or so remained.
Since they had not left, I knew they were