Excessive ferocity due to caution

Half an hour later, Abbot Huifa arrived at the new room next to Zhao Yi's, where Huijue and the deceased man's girlfriend were also present.

Once the door was closed, the sound of the torrential rain outside subsided considerably.

"Benefactor Zhao, what did you find in the room just now?"

Abbot Huifa asked Zhao Yi a question, his expression solemn, and his forehead reflected the light in the flickering candlelight.

It was covered in sweat.

Zhao Yi thought for a moment, then took out the half geoduck from his pocket and placed it on the table.

"I've found this."

Looking at the half geoduck on the table, Huifa and Huijue both felt a chill in their groins for no apparent reason.

After a two-second silence, Huifa said:

"Ah, no... what I mean is, is there anything else that seems unusual?"

Zhao Yi thought about it carefully.

"some."

Huifa's eyes lit up:

"What's wrong?"

Zhao Yi said:

Your expression is unusual.

Huifa was stunned.

Zhao Yi stared into Huifa's eyes and said:

"In the main hall, did you see green mold growing on Master Hongmu's corpse?"

Huifa blew his beard and glared, saying:

"What nonsense are you spouting?"

Zhao Yi smiled and said:

"Abbot, you look really flustered."

Huifa shuddered, his mind becoming increasingly flustered.

"Benefactor Zhao... Master Hongmu is a highly virtuous monk. His golden body is impervious to all evil. Benefactor Zhao, please do not make unfounded speculations."

Zhao Yi shrugged and said:

"Since the abbot has said so, I will stop speculating."

"That's all I found here."

"If there's nothing else, Abbot, please return."

Abbot Huifa stood up, glanced at Zhao Yi, and left the room with a heavy heart.

After he walked away, Zhao Yi stared at Huijue and said:

"Did I tell you someone's going to die tonight?"

Huijue remained silent.

The woman sitting to the side was trembling; clearly, what had just happened in the room had left her with severe psychological trauma.

"You probably saw Abbot Huifa's reaction earlier. Now we've basically confirmed one thing—the eerie terror sealed within Master Hongmu's body has resurfaced..."

Huijue raised his head in horror and said:

"Doesn't that mean... the entire temple is now in extreme danger?"

"No, I have to go tell the abbot right away..."

He had just gotten up when he heard the woman in the room say softly:

"Are you stupid...?"

"Didn't you realize that Abbot Huifa actually knows everything? He just doesn't want to admit it..."

"After Master Hongmu passed away, he had only recently become the abbot of Hongmu Temple... Under such circumstances, if a major dereliction of duty or mistake occurred in the temple, wouldn't it affect his position as abbot?"

The woman's words made Huijue suddenly stop in his tracks!

He turned his head and said seriously:

"Female benefactor, Abbot Huifa is definitely not that kind of person!"

Zhao Yi clicked his tongue and said:

"Not long ago, you also said that no one would die tonight."

Huijue swayed.

Zhao stood up, patted him on the shoulder, and comforted him:

"But don't worry, no one should die tonight."

Huijue asked in confusion:

Why?

Zhao Yi shook his head:

"I don't know either. This strange creature harbors immense resentment towards Hongmu Temple and possesses terrifying strength. Now that it has broken free from Master Hongmu's body, it should logically be carrying out a purge of Hongmu Temple..."

"But in fact, after it came out last night, it only killed one person..."

"Tonight... I only killed one person."

"Its motivation is very strange."

At this point, Zhao glanced at the woman who had survived the ordeal and asked:

"What did you see when your boyfriend died?"

The woman bit her lip and said shyly:

"I...I didn't see it."

"At that time, I was wearing an eye patch..."

"Light and shadow flickered in the room, then I felt a large amount of sticky, fishy stench splatter on my face and body, then I took off my blindfold, and then..."

As she spoke, her eyes were filled with fear once again, and her body trembled involuntarily.

"A flash of light and shadow..."

As Zhao Yi carefully considered the situation in the room at that time, guesses gradually emerged in his mind.

At this moment, the woman barely managed to recover from her fear and weakly said:

"Could it be... could it be..."

As she spoke, she tried to lower her voice and quietly pointed to the room next door.

Zhao looked at the direction she was pointing and corrected her:

That's my room.

The woman paused for a moment, then waved her hand and said:

"Excuse me!"

"I mean... that fortune teller."

"This morning, my boyfriend and I went for a walk outside the temple's main hall... and we saw her acting suspiciously, I don't know what she was doing..."

Zhao Yi and Huijue exchanged a glance.

He got up and walked towards the sorceress's room. Huijue said:

"Mr. Zhao...be careful."

Zhao Yi waved his hand.

He went out and walked towards the sorceress's room. As he passed the room where the previous dead man had been, Zhao Yi frowned and pushed open the door.

A chilling wind and the stench of blood rushed towards us.

Although the monks have cleaned it up, it will be difficult to clean it completely in a short time.

Especially the smell.

There was only one candle in the room, which was almost completely burned out.

Zhao Yi closed the door and stared at the steadily burning candle inside the room for a long time.

Everything was peaceful and serene.

But soon after, a chilling aura suddenly enveloped Zhao Yi from head to toe, as if something in some unknown dark corner had been watching him all along!

The chill is getting stronger.

Zhao Yi slowly backed away, exited the house, and closed the door behind him.

The chill did not dissipate but lingered, until Zhao Yi stood at the door of the sorceress's room, at which point the unknown gaze slowly melted away.

Although Zhao Yi remained calm, a scalpel had already secretly appeared in his sleeve, and the tattoo of his darkest personality was faintly visible on his body.

He wasn't entirely sure that the strange creature that had resurrected from Master Hongmu's body wouldn't attack him.

Upon entering the secret realm, the quest prompts were already quite clear—he was not the Redwood Temple's priority target until he found the creature's weakness.

Just because he's not a priority target doesn't mean the cunning won't attack him!

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The sorceress actually opened the door herself, grabbed Zhao Yi with her old hand, and dragged him into the house!

She was very strong, unlike an old woman.

Upon entering the room, Zhao Yi discovered that dozens of candles were lit, covering almost every corner of the room!

The sudden brightness even made Zhao Yi feel a little uncomfortable.

The fortune teller glanced at Zhao Yi, revealing a set of white teeth:

"Young man...do you know that you were just one step away from death?"

Zhao Yi looked at the sorceress with curiosity:

"Who is it?"

The sorceress replied:

"An existence you can't afford to offend."

"I can see you're quite capable, not someone to be trifled with... Listen to this old woman's advice, leave Redwood Temple immediately!"

"Don't risk your life in this pointless revenge."

Zhao Yi carefully examined the shaman's room, then recalled the layout of the main hall.

"Witch doctor, you didn't come up the mountain this time to worship the mountain god, did you?"

He began to speak.

PS: First update, continuing to write.