He watched the Jumping Ghost thrashing about, nearly lunging at his face.
Lu Yuan gritted his teeth and thrust his sword, and this Jumping Ghost reacted just like the one before.
'But…'
'No, no, that's not right!'
'This room is covered in talismans left by Daoist Longchuan.'
'If these Jumping Ghosts wanted to get in, how could it be so easy?'
'And none of the talismans have been damaged.'
'Logically, the Jumping Ghosts shouldn't be able to enter, and there definitely shouldn't be so many of them.'
'Could it be…'
'…that these are all hallucinations?!'
Lu Yuan suddenly recalled something he'd read in the *Celestial Master* manual. It described a certain evil artifact.
'A type of incense.'
'Once inhaled, it unknowingly causes hallucinations.'
'Connecting that to the Jumping Ghosts I just saw…'
'First, I saw them…'
'Then Zhao Qiao'Er…'
'And then the other Travelers…'
'If that's the case…'
