Nether Glyph, Entering Paper Figure Forest

Dark clouds covered the moon, and a chill wind howled.

Standing on a rock, I swept my gaze around but saw no paper figures.

Yet the ghostly aura on the mountain had grown much denser.

A thin mist condensed from yin energy had also risen along the mountainside.

And at the rear mountain, that faint reddish glow had become more intense as well.

It was as if red neon lights had been switched on at the rear mountain.

The others also crawled out from the cracks between the rocks one after another.

Pan Ling merely took one look before frowning. "The ghostly aura has grown stronger, but I don't sense any fierce baleful aura. That red light looks terribly eerie, too. I don't know what's giving it off..."

"We'll find out once we get there," I replied quietly.

Zhang Yuchen nodded along. "Right, we'll know when we get there. Maybe it's another crystal! After all, we saw red light when we went to the Tube Building too, didn't we?"

Everyone narrowed their eyes, though no one spoke.

If it really was a crystal, then this trip would be well worth it.

But accordingly, we had to be even more careful.

Any ghost capable of controlling a crystal was definitely no nobody...

No one hesitated any longer, and we started toward the sparse woods ahead.

But we did not go in openly. We remained vigilant and moved stealthily.

Before long, we had drawn close to the small woods ahead.

Now that we were closer, we could finally make out the white figures hanging from the trees.

They were white paper figures, each with a black line atop its head, looped over the trees.

Whenever the wind blew, they swayed back and forth from the branches.

A glance revealed a dense mass