I had seen it before and knew that this was the "Nine Corpse Tower" in its illusory state, not something that truly existed.
It was Xiao Yu's usual ritual ground for suppressing the Abyss Ghost Cave.
Below it lay the Abyss Ghost Cave.
Even having seen this sight before, I was still shocked upon entering this place.
Uncle Yu, Zhao Liansheng, and Aunt Tang were even more stunned. They stood rooted to the spot, eyes wide and faces full of disbelief.
"H-Heavens? There's actually such a massive tower here?"
"There really is a tower beneath the Nine Corpse Tower?"
Zhao Liansheng and Aunt Tang were utterly astonished.
Xiao Yu merely replied:
"That is only the manifested form of the barrier seal, not an actual tower..."
"A barrier... manifested?"
"A barrier can actually take on a physical form?"
"..."
Too many secrets were buried here. Even within the Secret Bureau, there were no complete records.
Much less Aunt Tang and Zhao Liansheng.
Xiao Yu did not explain further and simply continued speaking to everyone present:
"Everyone, follow me this way."
With that, Xiao Yu led us toward the eerie woods on the left.
I knew perfectly well what lay within those woods. Beneath the ghostly vines and black trees hung resentful souls and vengeful spirits one after another.
Over the past several thousand years, those were the souls continuously drawn into the Nine Corpse Tower by the power of the forbidden zone's source, the Great Fiend.
To stop those vengeful spirits from entering the Abyss Ghost Cave, they had been restrained and controlled within these eerie woods, hanging there like hanged ghosts...
The first time we entered this place, the Great Fiend's power had broken through the seal. Eerie energy flooded into those vengeful spirits' bodies, causing them to mutate into