No matter what, the Gourd Immortal Abode mattered most. Tang Changsheng had been worried all along that losing the object that held it in check might cause something to change there.
If some powerful evil thing imprisoned inside escaped and ran rampant through Lower River, they would be finished...
The old legends of Gourd Islet spoke of a flood that had drowned tens of thousands of people there.
And the dense mass of bodies beneath Gourd Islet that had never decayed seemed to lend the legend some weight!
The General's Temple had watched over Lower River for generations and had always regarded it as its own territory.
It made no sense for him to ignore what was happening in his own territory and instead come to Pale Blue Castle like a dog chasing mice, showing off where he had no business being...
He was the Sect Leader of the General's Temple and, to put it grandly, the guardian of Lower River. He was no guardian of Pale Blue Castle!
The slight hesitation in his heart did not escape Arabella.
She gave a bitter smile. "It's no use. Even Tang can't help me!"
"But my master is an incredible Exorcist!" Ling Xiaoyu would not be satisfied until she had sold Tang Changsheng out completely. He did not know whether to laugh or cry.
"You don't understand!" Arabella let out a long sigh. "It's a curse. No one can escape it..."
Tang Changsheng knew exactly how the whole affair had unfolded. Now he merely said, "I don't think what's happening has anything to do with this so-called curse. It has to do with Alina instead."
"Alina is dead!"
"Exactly. She's dead... and now her ghost has come to claim lives!" Tang Changsheng said lightly. "Did you notice? Every one of those people