At the guesthouse, Qin Manjiang had not gone to bed yet.
He watched the heavy rain outside the window, turning things over in his mind again and again.
This Ghost Story had come upon him too suddenly. One moment, he had still been in the [Returning Soul] Ghost Story; the next, he had been forcibly dragged into [Wedding Dress].
And in Qiao Family Village, he had learned a few things about Zhong Xueran from the Old Taoist.
Her background was probably far from simple. She was very likely a member of the Zhong Family the Old Taoist had mentioned, that family... whose members entered the Ghost Story World generation after generation.
No wonder the sole Permanent Item attuned to her soul was the Taoist [Three Pure Ones Bell]. The Zhong Family members probably all had the [Three Pure Ones Bell], so where had the One-Time Item, the [Single Pure Bell], come from?
Perhaps only Zhong Xueran knew that secret. She knew more about the [Eye Realm] than anyone else.
But both Zhong Xueran and Xu Yi had seemed somewhat off to Qin Manjiang this time.
For once, Xu Yi had not been fooling around, and Zhong Xueran was no longer chattering away with boundless energy.
He had a vague feeling that something was going to happen to those two...
So he had to hurry. He had to find the key to breaking this deadlock as soon as possible. He could not make a mistake, and there was no room for trial and error. He had to succeed on the first try!
In fact, after Jiang Du's reminder, Qin Manjiang had already seen through the surface phenomena and grasped the crucial point.
The strangest thing about this [Wedding Dress] Ghost Story was that the same curses or Vengeful Ghosts would appear