Shen Bing and Qu Mo, who were following behind me, reached out at the same time and pulled me back.
"What's wrong with you?" Shen Bing looked anxious and was about to take the paper ball out of her ears.
After I was pulled back, my mind became clearer. I took a deep breath and concentrated, temporarily suppressing the thoughts surging in my heart. I hurriedly held Shen Bing's hand and shook my head, indicating that she could not take off the paper ball.
I turned around to look at Boss Mei. This bastard was staring at Shen Bing and Qu Mo angrily, as if blaming them for being nosy. As soon as he met my gaze, he quickly turned his head to the front.
"Are you okay?" Shen Bing asked nervously again.
I nodded and shook my head, smiled at them, and said it was okay. I pointed forward and said to keep going. Boss Mei had already stepped onto the plank road, and I followed him while chanting the Heart Purification Mantra.
This plank road looked very old, with its planks and railings in a state of decay. It snaked upwards along the smooth cliffs in a serpentine slope. When you stepped on it, it made a creaking sound, and it felt like it could break at any time, which was very frightening.
Although the plank road is quite simple, it was a very expensive project to build such an artificial road on the cliff in the backward technology at that time. Ordinary people could not afford it, so we can imagine how rich the noble was at that time.
After walking up about ten meters, I could see that the end of the plank road was a cave entrance, which was more than twenty meters away from us. As we walked here, the ghost cries became louder and louder. It was no longer the scale of more than a hundred ghosts at the beginning. It sounded like there were really tens of thousands of ghosts. But I knew in my heart that this was just an illusion, because the ghost cries echoed in the cave for a long time, and the previous sound did not stop, and the next sound came again, overlapping each other, as if there were really tens of thousands of ghosts crying.
At first, I could barely block out their cries by chanting the Heart Purification Mantra, but the sounds overlapped and echoed in every corner of the cave, as if the Heart Purification Mantra was like a small boat in the sea, swallowed up by the huge waves. I began to feel uneasy again, and my father and Yaxue's cries for help flashed in my ears again.
Shen Bing said in a trembling voice: "I can still hear the crying even with my ears blocked. It's so painful. I can't stand it!"
Qu Mo also said: "Xi Feng, why don't you cast a spell to exorcise the ghosts? If we continue like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to make it to the exit."
I have thought about using exorcism to stop the ghosts from crying, but there are too many resentful ghosts, and there must be some evil ghosts among them. It would be best if we could just keep out of each other's way. Otherwise, if we anger them and the evil ghosts show up, on such a narrow path, if we make a mistake and fall into the ghost's tear pool, we'll be in trouble.
Turning around, I saw a heart-purifying talisman and a talisman to ward off evil spirits stuck on someone's forehead. I also drew my energy to the Niwan Palace, allowing my confused brain to gradually calm down.
Suddenly, there was a "crack" sound. I turned around quickly and saw Mei lying in front of me with one foot stuck in the crack of a broken board. I was worried. Did this bastard do it on purpose or by accident? Just as I was about to go over and help him up, I saw this bastard thrust forward and leap forward more than two meters like a rabbit. As soon as his feet touched the ground, there were several "crack" sounds. He deliberately stomped his feet hard and broke seven or eight boards in a row.