Delivering the Jade Pendant, Escaping Nine Corpse Tower

I carried Uncle Yu on my back, sweat streaming down my face as I hurried forward.

Seeing the stone gate not far ahead, everyone picked up the pace as well.

"We're almost there!"

"We'll be out of here soon. Hang on!"

"The gate looks like it's closing! Faster!"

"..."

Everyone shouted in turn. They had all drunk the Foul Stench Soup Uncle Yu had brought.

Even though they had reached their physical limits, they still gritted their teeth and pressed on.

The big rooster continued running ahead with a tap-tap-tap, followed by the heavy panting of our group.

But when we were still a hundred meters from the stone gate—

An unfamiliar voice suddenly called out from behind us.

"Jiang Ning, Young Master Jiang, wait! Wait!"

We were all stunned when we heard that unfamiliar voice.

Instinctively, we turned around.

When I looked back, I saw a gaunt hanging ghost with a face covered in burns drifting toward us, its long tongue swaying.

At the sight of a hanging ghost, everyone became alert.

But no one stopped. Other than Xiao Yu, nobody could make me stop.

Seeing that I had not stopped, the hanging ghost continued shouting from behind us.

"Young Master Jiang, Miss Bai asked this lowly one to bring you something!

Otherwise, you won't be able to get out. You won't be able to get out..."

I froze upon hearing that.

Xiao Yu?

Hesitating, I looked back.

There was a jade pendant in the hanging ghost's hand.

It was a Phoenix-Pattern Jade Pendant—the one Xiao Yu always wore close to her body.

When the others saw me stop, they stopped as well.

Yet they remained highly wary of the hanging ghost drifting toward us.

A fake Xiao Yu had just appeared. This hanging ghost could still be the