Hearing Lin Ji's words, Liu Shiming's face became a little ugly.
Immediately afterwards, he put away the short knife in his hand, jumped back slightly, and distanced himself from Lin Ji.
Lin Ji narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Why, would a Night Travel Realm monk be afraid of my mere wisdom?"
"The ghost is in the forest. The ghost will follow the ghost's energy and come to the door. You can't stay in the forest for too long," Liu Shiming said.
Lin Ji was stunned for a moment, and then realized something.
"What do you mean? The ghost energy you are talking about is the ghost energy left on the body after killing the ghosts in the forest?"
"You are indeed not an ordinary Fourth Realm person. You even discovered this. You were locked by the ghost energy before and were pulled back into the forest by this ghost formation, so you made some guesses, right?" Liu Shiming chuckled lightly.
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Before Lin Ji could ask again, the smile on Liu Shiming's face became even brighter.
"In this forest, the more you use spiritual energy, the more ghostly energy will cling to your body."
Lin Ji frowned, feeling a little ominous in his heart.
"What do you mean? We are all grasshoppers on the same rope, why bother killing each other?" Lin Ji said coldly, "It is absolutely impossible for this formation to be your handiwork. In that case, why don't you cooperate to get out of trouble?"
"Isn't it just cooperation now? But you are risking your life to explore the path, and I am sitting back and enjoying the results."
As he finished speaking, there was a sudden muffled sound in the dense forest next to him.
Immediately afterwards, a gust of wind blew towards Lin Ji and the others.
The sudden strong wind left the three of them unprepared. Even Lin Ji couldn't help but take a few steps back to stabilize himself.
Wu Nan was blown directly to the ground.
Zhong Xiaoyan was closest to the entrance of the cave. As she moved her steps, she stepped on the air and fell into the cave.
Seeing this scene, Lin Ji exclaimed.
"Xiaoyan!"
He stepped forward and grabbed Zhong Xiaoyan's arm the moment her body was completely submerged in the hole.
"Let go! There is suction in this hole!" Zhong Xiaoyan was horrified and wanted to let go, but it was too late.
The next moment, Lin Ji felt himself rising into the air and falling into the bottomless hole.
The only thing that can be felt is Zhong Xiaoyan's catkins.
He didn't know how long he had been there, but Lin Ji slowly felt that the ghost energy around him was getting stronger and stronger, so intense that he had to use at least 30% of his spiritual energy to resist the invasion of the ghost energy.
Boom!
There was a sudden muffled sound, and immediately after, Lin Ji felt himself falling onto a soft surface.
"Why is it soft?" Lin Ji was still stunned.
"What do you think?" Zhong Xiaoyan's somewhat depressed voice sounded.
At the same time as the sound sounded, the surroundings suddenly lit up. There was a rock cave in front, and candles automatically lit in the candlesticks on both sides of the rock wall.
By the candlelight, Lin Ji discovered that the side of his face was lying on Zhong Xiaoyan's small breasts.
"I didn't mean it." Lin Ji stood up and dusted himself off.
Zhong Xiaoyan looked coldly at Lin Ji, but thought of something again, and the coldness on her face softened a little.
"Didn't I tell you to let go?"
"You're too late." Lin Ji said calmly.
This answer made Zhong Xiaoyan's face obviously look a little angry.
"Humph, why did you save me?" she asked again.
"What's the reason? Is it possible that I just refuse to save him?" Lin Ji shook his head and said, "It's not my style to abandon my companions and ignore them when we are in such a predicament."
Hearing this, most of the anger on Zhong Xiaoyan's face melted away. She stared blankly at the back of Lin Ji who had begun to explore the situation.
He thought of something again, his face turned slightly red, and then he pouted his mouth.
"Don't expect this girl to be grateful to you, I didn't ask you to save me!" After a moment of hesitation, she whispered again, "Big...at worst, if a similar situation happens again in the future, I'll just save you once.
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"It's no use. I couldn't save you and even brought myself in. You don't have to be grateful." Lin Ji said without looking back.
"Humph, you don't know the heart of a good person!" Zhong Xiaoyan stared at Lin Ji's back.
If looks could kill, Lin Jishao would have been riddled with holes.
Lin Ji was too lazy to argue with her and focused on checking the situation around him.
After a while, Lin Ji had explored the surrounding area and found nothing strange.
"What's going on with the candlesticks here? Are they automatically lit when someone comes?" Lin Ji murmured to himself curiously.
Zhong Xiaoyan said: "I have no knowledge, it's just a simple mechanism."
"Is this simple?"
"Then isn't Liu Shiming from Tiangongfang? There are so many similar institutions in Tiangongfang, what's all the fuss about." Zhong Xiaoyan curled her lips and said.
Lin Ji turned to look at Zhong Xiaoyan.
"You mean this place has something to do with Tiangongfang?"
"That's not necessarily true, but Liu Shiming must know something." Zhong Xiaoyan speculated.
Lin Ji nodded slightly and looked up at the hole above his head.
Wu Nan is still up there.
"That little bald donkey should have some means of protecting himself. After all, there is a ghost around, and Liu Shiming doesn't dare to act recklessly." Lin Ji felt a little worried.
But then, for no reason, he remembered that when he first met the little bald donkey, the little bald donkey swore that he had never experienced setbacks and other nonsense.
Judging from the little bald donkey's bad character all day long, this guy probably deliberately made Lin Ji angry at that time.
"Bless yourself." Lin Ji sighed secretly.
Now that I can't protect myself, I can't care about enlightenment for the time being.
There was nothing special around, so Lin Ji could only lead Zhong Xiaoyan and continue walking along the narrow passage ahead.
The two of them followed the road illuminated by candlelight, but after walking no more than a hundred meters, a stone gate appeared in front of them.
It's just that the stone door has been broken into half. Judging from the cross-section, the stone door is more than one meter thick, and the material seems to be unusual.
Lin Ji tried to push the half of the stone door that had not been broken open. No matter how hard he tried, he could not move it at all.
"Good weight."
After exploring for a while, Lin Ji took Zhong Xiaoyan and entered a small grotto along the half-broken stone door.
This grotto is only seven or eight meters long and wide. In the innermost part of the grotto, there is an offering table.
On the floor in front of the altar are two dusty futons.
On the altar table is a black statue that is slightly larger than a human head.
In front of the statue are four candlesticks.
Three of the four candlesticks have been extinguished, and only a small half of the candle is still burning in one candlestick.
The strange thing is that the candlelight in the candlestick is green, so that it reflects the entire grotto, giving it a somewhat gloomy atmosphere.
But at this moment, Zhong Xiaoyan suddenly tugged on Lin Ji's sleeve.
"Lin Ji, look quickly."
"What's wrong?"
"Look at the statue in front of you, does it look a bit like the ghost we saw before?"