Somewhere in Forbidden by the Phoenix, Xu Qing stood in the middle of the triangle of logs, looking at the spot where the ghost ward had just disappeared. There was nothing left of the candles which had been burning on the logs, other than some candle wax which had seeped into the dry bark.

He sent some dharma force into his bag of holding, and sure enough, the items he had purchased were still there.

Items purchased from ghost wards can’t be brought out into the day. You can only use them at night.

That was something he had learned in his research of ghost wards. Thinking back to everything that happened in the ghost ward, he started to speculate about the giant monk’s head.

“It mentioned golden crows,” he murmured.

He could only guess that the monk’s head must be from some nonhuman species that the golden crow assimilated in the past. After thinking about it for a while, he stepped out of the triangle of logs and started moving through the jungle.

As for the details of the ghost ward and that giant head... he could always come back later to investigate further, when he was stronger. Putting the matter aside, he accelerated...