Su Shi'er had seen every one of Su Taiping's successive actions.
He had never imagined that a Spiritual Field and the Spiritual Plants growing within it could be collected in such a manner.
But since the collection had succeeded, it was unquestionably a good thing, no matter how one looked at it.
Yet Su Shi'er's face was filled with melancholy, without the slightest trace of joy.
Su Shi'er frowned faintly and murmured, "Fellow Daoist Taiping, I can increasingly sense that something is wrong with this Ghost Cultivator's Cave Mansion."
"Wasn't it certain from the very beginning that there was more to this place?" Su Taiping countered.
Ever since arriving here, he had sensed the strange and eerie atmosphere of this place.
That was why he had been on high alert from the start.
"Before, it was merely speculation," Su Shi'er said.
"Hm? Fellow Daoist Su, have you... discovered something specific?"
Su Taiping's expression turned solemn. Before he could finish speaking, his gaze abruptly fell on the depression several zhang wide ahead.
"Does it have something to do with collecting the Spiritual Field just now?"
Su Shi'er nodded before saying, "When I cast the technique just now, I could clearly feel a massive amount of my True Yuan being drained away and devoured by the Ghostly Qi underground.
"In other words, Ghostly Qi has gathered beneath this cave mansion, and the terrifying power it contains is likely far beyond that of anywhere else in the Sinful Dao.
"Furthermore, along the way, we have seen bloodstains and bones scattered across the ground. Countless living beings have already perished here.
"Leaving aside the power that dissipated when those beings died and vanished from the world, who knows how many resources were stored in the storage pouches they carried?
"Where did those resources go?"