Chapter 239

Whoosh!

At the entrance of the Spirit-Gathering Mirror room.

Miao Shi hugged his arms and exhaled a puff of white mist.

"I'm a bit scared. What should I do next? Should I go in..."

The air here was bone-chillingly cold. At the edge of his vision, it seemed as if some dark, murky things were constantly squirming, and he could hear unintelligible whispers in his ears.

What made Miao Shi's hair stand on end even more was that although this was an empty corridor, he felt it was incredibly crowded. His balloon-like inflated physique didn't bring him any sense of security.

Miao Shi could clearly feel that the Five-Fortune Ghosts inside his body were in a very poor state after arriving here.

They didn't like this kind of place with heavy Sha Qi; they preferred places with good Feng Shui—that is, auspicious lands, the opposite of places of ill omen. Therefore, Miao Shi wasn't attracted here by the Sha Qi; he had come here because he had something to do.

After being possessed.

Although Miao Shi had saved his life, he had also lost his freedom.

The Five-Fortune Ghosts controlled him to do many things but didn't explain the reasons, which left Miao Shi in a state of confusion.

He listened intently for a moment and received the next instruction from the Five-Fortune Ghosts.

So he pushed open the door.

The moment the door opened, Miao Shi's body shuddered violently.

He looked on in horror.

The small room was packed densely with people.

On the floor, on the chandelier, on the toilet, on the windowsill... everywhere there were ghosts with miserable deaths. Their faces were deathly pale, and they were stiffly squeezed together.

Only a small portion had entered this room through the main door; a rough estimate was that there were over a hundred ghosts here!

All the ghosts were staring straight at Miao Shi, their eyes filled with resentment and hatred, exuding a chilling, gloomy ghost aura...

Miao Shi's hands and feet went cold, and he wished he could turn and run.

He had just taken a step back.

When he bumped into something!

No, he didn't bump into it; that thing had been clinging to his body the whole time.

It was just that Miao Shi had only just realized it!

He glanced toward his shoulder and saw a bone hand covered in blood foam resting there, the pungent smell of blood rushing straight into his nasal cavity...

Only then did Miao Shi remember that before leaving the crossroads, the Five-Fortune Ghosts had inexplicably made him sit down.

"Thanks for the ride..."

The ghost behind him whispered in Miao Shi's ear, then climbed down from his body and slowly crawled into the room where the Spirit-Gathering Mirror was located.

This ghost was very weak.

So weak that it needed Miao Shi to carry it to this room.

But when it crawled into the room, the entire room suddenly surged with Sha Qi, and the gazes of all the ghosts in the room fell upon this new ghost!

The new ghost slowly stood up. The Sha Qi in the room no longer ended at the Spirit-Gathering Mirror but instead began to converge on this ghost. The skeleton frame covered in flesh and blood stood upright, and the dagger tightly gripped in its hand flashed with an unusual luster.

This new ghost.

Was none other than the form Luo Shiyi took after his death!

All the ghosts on Wonder Island were formed after the original inhabitants died, and Luo Shiyi was also an original inhabitant of this world!

Miao Shi had never seen Luo Shiyi's state of death, so he didn't recognize him.

But even if he had recognized him, it wouldn't have changed anything.

Luo Shiyi was already dead; standing here was a skeleton ghost!

The existence of the skeleton ghost made all the ghosts present feel threatened. The bikini female ghost was the first to lose her patience, extending her dark-blue claws to grab at him.

Luo Shiyi's combat experience from when he was alive remained in the skeleton ghost's instincts. He dodged to the side, and the dagger stabbed into the female ghost's jaw. The female ghost let out a miserable scream and fell to the ground, and all the fierce Sha Qi in her body was absorbed by the skeleton ghost.

The skeleton ghost tilted its head to look at the other ghosts in the room; its empty, hollow eye sockets showed no emotion...

Clatter!

All the ghosts moved, and a great battle of ghosts erupted within the room!

"Miao Shi..."

"It seems Zhu Shuhui really didn't lie."

"But what is the purpose of the Five-Fortune Ghosts? Can they be considered allies?"

The appearance of the Five-Fortune Ghosts changed the situation. It was no longer as simple as ghosts gathering in a place of ill omen. He was just preparing to wake the others when a gust of Yin wind suddenly surged out from the corridor.

This Yin wind was filled with Sha Qi, making Wu Xian feel bone-chillingly cold, but these Yin winds didn't wake anyone up because the Sha Qi in the wind all converged around Wu Xian.

To be precise.

It entered the mouth of the Ghost-Head Blade!

The ghost head on the hilt of the blood-lacquered Ghost-Head Blade had actually come to life, greedily devouring the Sha Qi in the wind. The blood color on the blade became increasingly vivid, and the rust caused by previous ghost-slaying was gradually falling off.

Could the Ghost-Head Blade become stronger by devouring Sha Qi?

No...

Every ghost has Sha Qi on them. If the Ghost-Head Blade had such an ability, Wu Xian wouldn't have only just discovered it now.

"This Sha Qi... is released by the Spirit-Gathering Mirror!"

Wu Xian suddenly realized.

The Sha Qi gathered by the Spirit-Gathering Mirror could be considered a byproduct of the god-worshiping item, and god-worshiping items might trigger combination effects with each other!

The Ghost-Head Blade could become stronger by absorbing the Sha Qi from the Spirit-Gathering Mirror!

A moment later.

No more Sha Qi surged out.

Accompanied by heavy footsteps, Miao Shi walked out of the corridor, holding an ancient bronze mirror in his hand—it was the Spirit-Gathering Mirror that Wu Xian had hung in that room.

Miao Shi threw the Spirit-Gathering Mirror to Wu Xian.

"The five inside my body told me to tell you three things."

"First, no matter what happens, do not enter that room."

"Second, everything you have been doing is making your enemies stronger. The Yin Commanders are immortal, but they can only be subdued by the Luo King if they are killed once, and they only become legitimate if their images are captured..."

"Third, Zhu Shuhui should have already told you: at twelve midnight on the Ghost Festival, the Luo King will be enfeoffed at the place closest to 'Heaven'."

After saying these words.

Miao Shi turned and left.

Wu Xian pondered his three sentences carefully, his eyes darting around. He already had a plan in mind for how to deal with the night of the Ghost Festival.

Around ten in the morning.

Sunlight shone into the lobby.

The remaining people were busy with simple washing and eating breakfast.

Before nightfall yesterday, there were fifteen of them; now there were only twelve left.

When they slept last night, it was actually already past midnight, and coupled with physical exhaustion, everyone woke up very late.

Wu Xian ultimately didn't wake the others.

Miao Shi's appearance proved that the matters related to the Spirit-Gathering Mirror had come to an end. Waking the others would have no benefit other than making everyone's state worse.

After all this was over.

Everyone sat together and exchanged everything that had happened last night.

Besides Yan Ting and the Spirit-Gathering Mirror, there was another small episode: the madwoman Mei Yunsheng, who had previously suffered a mental breakdown, appeared again in the early morning.

She wasn't dead yet!

She stood at the door in rags, smiling blankly at the room for a while before running away. Although everyone didn't know what she had encountered, a lone madwoman who hadn't died after being on Wonder Island for so long was a bizarre event in itself.

After exchanging what happened last night, it was time for the main event.

They had to agree on their general action plan for the night of the Ghost Festival!

(End of Chapter)