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"": ""Mr. Luo, if we keep going, we should reach the heart of the place spawning these evil spirits-the source of the life force," Hu Jin said. "But the evil spirits probably formed here. Look at these stone platforms. There are chains on them, and marks left by scratching fingernails."
"Man-made?" Luo Bin murmured.
The evil spirits on Cabinet Mountain seemed to multiply through assimilation by the Nightmare Corpse, or by pulling out people's little fingers.
In reality, the Nightmare Corpse came from the Cabinet Mountain Taoist Grounds. Everything was man-made; only the method of producing more evil spirits differed.
The evil spirits on Floating Tortoise Mountain had to be man-made as well.
Huang Ying had revealed earlier that the Song Family delivered people to the Floating Tortoise Mountain Taoist Grounds.
When Zhan Qing and Zhan Kong first shared information with him, they had said people were constantly disappearing on Floating Tortoise Mountain.
The two facts happened to fit together.
As he pondered this, Hu Jin murmured a few words. What he said largely matched Luo Bin's deductions.
The flashlight's beam was too dim, wavering erratically over the walls.
Hu Jin paused briefly before saying, "Let's keep moving. We should pass through this fissure rather than linger here. I think people from the Floating Tortoise Mountain Taoist Grounds will keep bringing victims in. They must want something, making so many evil spirits."
Luo Bin fell silent for a moment. Indeed, Cabinet Mountain created evil spirits for the Emotion Flowers and Emotion Fruits. Eating those things nourished even the soul and greatly improved one's ability to think.
Floating Tortoise Mountain had to want something as well.
But was the thing spawning these evil spirits a corpse?
Would that corpse be difficult to deal with?
For some inexplicable