Xu Yuan walked to the corner, opened the window, and leaped out into the alley.
All around him, it was silent.
He quietly climbed onto the wall. Just as he was about to jump down, he spotted a figure hidden in the tree opposite him.
"Who's there?"
He shouted.
The figure emerged at once. It was a Skeleton Ghost.
The Skeleton Ghost sighed.
"You shouldn't have seen me."
Before it finished speaking,
an intense sense of danger welled up inside Xu Yuan.
"Pause," Xu Yuan commanded.
The entire world stopped.
He slowly lowered his gaze.
A bone spike had risen from the ground and was silently driving toward his chest, only to veer aside at the last instant!
The Ghost Entity opposite him was pierced straight through!
It remained frozen in its dying pose!
"That feeling was..."
Xu Yuan carefully sensed the aura on the bone spike.
That familiar fluctuation could only have come from—
"Ghost Devour"!
His attacker had meant to devour both him and the ghost opposite him in one strike!
...But at the final moment, it had killed only the ghost.
Xu Yuan looked again.
His Waist Token was glowing!
Of course.
Everyone in the city, human and ghost alike, would be eaten by that boss.
The reason it had not eaten him was probably the Waist Token.
Perhaps he really ought to go to Nine Nether Prefecture Further Training and learn how to be a proper fierce ghost?
No.
It was too dangerous here.
Time to go!
Xu Yuan activated a Hard Difficulty Competition again and went inside to rest.
This time, he really did rest.
He was exhausted.
And he could feel that the Curse Shadow was almost full.
Forget it. He would not go back.
He had gathered enough information tonight.
He closed his