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"": ""Good grief, what is this place? It's freezing! Even I feel a chill deep down!" Fourth Master Gray flicked his rat tail and squeaked several times.
"It hid inside." Luo Bin caught his breath, checked the Spirit-Inviting Talisman on his shoulder, and decided to replace it.
"That ghost is a crafty bastard. Are we really following it? We might be walking straight into its territory." Fourth Master Gray squeaked again.
Luo Bin inhaled deeply and exhaled slowly. Ignoring Fourth Master Gray, he took out Six Yin Mountain's soul-wounding Calling Bell and Bronze Club, then placed the Copper Beads where he could reach them most easily.
The tower was still a hundred meters or so away. He would have to follow the riverbank to reach it.
Only a narrow path ran along the bank. On one side churned the yellowish river; on the other stood dense bushes, thick with thorns and tangled vines, without even a place to set foot.
He had barely walked a dozen meters toward the narrow path.
A crooked, broken stone pedestal stood at the edge of the bushes.
Beside it, several stone steps descended into the water. The uppermost step consisted of several rocks fitted together, and one caught Luo Bin's attention.
It was unmistakably the upper half of the broken pedestal's stone tablet!
Several characters leaped into view.
[Eternal Ban on Drowning Girls]
Luo Bin's eyebrows twitched, and goosebumps rose across his skin.
For one fleeting instant, he seemed to see several scrawny infants lying on the stone slab, all looking up at him.
Another cold gust swept past, and Luo Bin shuddered again.
The slab was empty. There was nothing there.
He could not explain it, but a heaviness settled in his chest.
He still had urgent business to