"How did it go?"
The Shrine Priest turned to the newcomer and asked.
"The Ghost Market was closed today."
The newcomer walked up to the Fox-Headed Mountain God Statue and knelt to pay his respects before continuing, "I went several days in a row, but never met the person trading with us."
The Shrine Priest frowned slightly.
"Are you sure you checked every stall?"
"I did. I checked every stall in the Gui District, but never saw what we were looking for."
The newcomer answered firmly, then asked, "Did we get the time wrong? Or was it not the Gui District?"
The Shrine Priest shook his head.
"For something like this, the details must have been settled right from the start. After all, we don't know anything specific about the person making the trade. We can only find them through the item."
After a moment's thought, the Shrine Priest said, "Once the Ghost Market opens again, go a few more times. If you still find nothing, I'll try to contact the trader and see what's going on."
The newcomer frowned slightly at that.
Noticing something was off, the Shrine Priest asked, "What's wrong?"
"The inspections at the Ghost Market have gotten much stricter lately. I'm afraid..."
"Afraid of what? You have an Entry Token. As long as Rat's passage isn't discovered, you'll be fine."
Hearing that, the newcomer nodded.
Sometimes not even one of Rat's passages was discovered in an entire year, so there was little cause for concern.
"Shrine Priest, do you think that Immortal Statue carved from thousand-year yin wood is real?"
The Shrine Priest smiled.
"The thousand-year yin wood is certainly real, but the Immortal Statue definitely isn't a thousand years old. Otherwise, how could the Spirit-Medium Family worshipping that Immortal have fallen so low that they