Qiu Jian drew a deep breath. He felt as though he could barely keep the veins on his forehead from bulging anymore.
And throughout the journey, Yun Huanling's expressions of sympathy had never stopped.
Even Su Jiu's usually aloof face had gained a hint of a smile at his nonsense.
Only Qiu Jian had nearly been angered into having smoke pour from all seven orifices.
Fortunately, an hour later, they reached their destination.
It was a pitch-black cave. Even before entering, they could feel the sinister ghost qi drifting out of its entrance.
Still, nestled in woods like these, the two complemented each other and hardly seemed out of place.
Qiu Jian pointed at the dark entrance. "The thing is inside. Of course, the evil ghost is in there too."
Su Jiu and the other two did not go in immediately. She even folded her arms and leaned against a dead tree nearby.
Meanwhile, Yun Huanling's playful grin vanished, replaced by contempt and disdain, as though he were looking at something filthy.
Seeing their attitudes, Qiu Jian failed to control his expression, and his face twisted for a moment.
"Tsk. You said you invited us here to kill an evil ghost, but looking at your face, I'd have thought you deliberately brought us here to feed it." Yun Huanling displayed his brazen irreverence to the fullest.
But those words made Qiu Jian's face twitch again. He had clearly been frightened.
Neither Su Jiu nor Yun Huanling looked surprised. Only Gu Ningyun wore an astonished expression.
"Also, I think you'd better call your master out here to fight. There's more room. Otherwise, her cave abode might collapse."
Qiu Jian stopped concealing anything. Sinister ghost qi even began radiating from his body.
"When did you notice?"
"A Jiu noticed when you came