Seeing that the doors were about to give way, Zhang Tie and Li Tianyang blanched and rushed over, trying to brace the two doors with their bodies before the ghosts smashed them open!
The cold seeping through the gap almost instantly froze them stiff.
But letting go meant death. Li Tianyang desperately channeled his spiritual power, trying to wrap them both in a shield of spiritual light.
Yet barely a moment later, a sharp crack rang out, and the shield shattered.
When Li Tianyang vomited a mouthful of ice-laced blood, An Ke's expression changed. She turned urgently to Ye Lin:
"Ye Lin! Let's tear up all the stone slabs! Move every bed!"
"If there's a secret passage here, it has to be underground!"
Ignoring the strain she had already suffered, she activated Vengeful Ghost Possession again.
She had been studying the Taoist Temple's layout on the way here. If she remembered correctly, there were no other buildings around the Taoist Quarters, so there could be no concealed doors in the walls leading elsewhere!
If there was a secret passage, it had to be beneath their feet!
But the moment she finished speaking, Ye Lin rejected the idea.
No!
Too slow. That would take far too long!
By the time we finish searching, the ghosts will already have broken in!
His mind raced at its limits, and time seemed to slow.
Amid the piercing shrieks and furious roars, Ye Lin shut out all sensory input. Every scene since they entered flashed through his mind.
His enhanced thinking ability frantically worked through every possibility.
Within a single breath, Ye Lin's pupils contracted. The images in his mind suddenly froze on the black water outside the Taoist Quarters.
Water?!
*There was a downpour here earlier, but there wasn't any standing water outside the