"Because the place where I entered the Ghost Domain before was more than a hundred thousand miles from this Demon-Subduing Land. How could I possibly have guessed that the Ghost Domain lay behind that door?
"Still, although I didn't guess it was the Ghost Domain, I did guess that whatever lay behind the door had some connection to it." Yun Huanling chose to speak frankly about this, no longer concealing anything.
Su Jiu understood why Yun Huanling had only now spoken of things he had discovered long ago.
For him, the Ghost Domain had once meant pain and suffering. As a human being, he would instinctively avoid the pain that unsettled him. Nor did he want his companions to know about that painful past.
After all, what good would knowing do? The harm had already been done. As a man, was he supposed to go pouring out his woes to Su Jiu?
He hoped time would smooth everything over, rather than laying his wounds bare before others.
Yet before those wounds could fade, he had returned to the Ghost Domain.
He knew that, faced with their current predicament, he had to reveal certain things, both for Su Jiu's sake and his own.
"Before I came in, those moving ghost faces on the door were actually vengeful ghosts from the Ghost Domain. They had simply been sealed into the door using a special sealing method. That was why you saw that sight."
"Of course, not everyone could necessarily see those shifting ghost faces. Everyone's Divine Sense and perception are different, after all. Generally speaking, only people with exceptional talent have a chance of seeing them in motion... in other words, seeing those star maps as they originally were."
At this, Su Jiu looked up again. "Speaking of the star maps, could