Chapter 45: Launching

Retracing the path, Yang Xiao was no longer letting his thoughts run wild; after all, there was still someone hiding among the paper dolls to deal with. Yet when he looked down with his left eye, there was only a crowd of strangely shaped paper dolls.

Moving cautiously, he now had his back to altar number four. Yang Xiao closed his left eye and quietly opened his right. The scene below had completely changed: a group of drowned ghosts with soaking wet bodies were huddled together, water still dripping from their hair, staring straight up at the stage.

And there, just three meters in front of Yang Xiao, a ghost face emerged from amidst them, staring dead at him, even stretching out a leg, blocking the path that Yang Xiao had to take.

It was this creature that had tripped him earlier!

If he tried to walk normally past it, he would inevitably be tripped again. For a moment, the elder's warning flashed through Yang Xiao's mind, "Fortune comes with risks."