The female ghost shook her head nervously and directly refused my request, as if she feared those four gambling ghosts terribly.
I smiled.
"Miss, you don't need to be so afraid!
Since I'm asking you to take me to them, I naturally have the means and ability to deal with them.
Just take me there..."
After hearing this, the female ghost continued shaking her head.
"No, no, it's them—it's where they stay.
There's... there's a Great Fiend woman who runs a teahouse. She's fierce, terribly fierce.
Inside are all ghosts plagued by calamities and diseases.
Any ghost who enters that teahouse will be tainted by the Five Poisons.
If you go looking for trouble with them and enter the teahouse...
You may enter alive, but you won't come out alive!
Taoist priest, listen to me. Don't go."
Hearing this, I instantly frowned, though a faint smile lingered at the corners of my mouth.
There was a ghost den teahouse like that near Fish Mouth?
The four gambling ghosts had unexpectedly led to this.
That only piqued my interest even more.
Perhaps because I had seen "grand scenes" and "massive formations," hearing about some ghost den where calamities, illnesses, and the Five Poisons gathered no longer made me afraid.
Instead, I found it interesting and wanted to investigate.
I spoke to the female ghost again.
"Miss, don't be afraid. Just take me there. I'll stay outside and take a look first. It'll be fine."
Seeing how serious and persistent I was, the female ghost could only nod.
"Th-then, all right! But... but you really mustn't go inside. That place is very dangerous."
"Mm!"
I nodded again.
"All right! That teahouse is over there, inside the film city..."
I knew the film city. It was a newly developed tourist destination in our