“How… how could this be?” Ye Qiutang couldn't bear it. She couldn't accept this kind of slow, torturous death.

“Let's go to the Sutra Depository. We'll fight him to the death!” Ye Qiutang’s eyes were bloodshot. She turned and was about to rush towards the Sutra Depository.

“Don't move!” Jiang Cheng took two steps forward, held her back, and pulled her back. “Look at the footprints behind you!”

“The thing behind you is also approaching you. This shows that it wasn't my behavior just now that angered those ghosts. It’s the same for you!”

“Go back!”

After returning near the Hall of Merit, the ghost footprints stopped. Not only Ye Qiutang’s, but also the footprints behind Jiang Cheng stopped moving.

But that was all they did. The few steps they had already taken had shortened the distance between them. Jiang Cheng estimated that when he first noticed the ghost footprints, they were about 10 meters away. Now, the ghost footprints had moved at least 2 meters.

The sense of crisis brought by this distance was real. Before getting rid of the ghost footprints, they couldn't leave the Hall of Merit. Otherwise, they would be caught up and killed by the ghost footprints before long.

Most importantly, they wouldn't have enough time to run to the Sutra Depository.

There was no use in being anxious. The important thing was to solve the problem. Fatty was extremely anxious. He could see that Jiang Cheng was in an extremely dangerous situation, but he couldn't help at all. He couldn't even understand the situation.

If he wasn't familiar with Jiang Cheng, he would even suspect that Jiang Cheng and Ye Qiutang were putting on a show for him, just like the Emperor's New Clothes.

The situation was becoming more and more difficult. Jiang Cheng stared at the footprints. Various complex plans appeared in his mind for a moment, only to be rejected again. Fine beads of sweat gathered on his forehead. The atmosphere became more and more anxious. Ye Qiutang hadn't experienced such a scene before, and it was good enough that she could barely remain calm.

Slowly, a plan took shape in Jiang Cheng's mind. Since they could influence the ghost footprints, was it possible to directly kill the ghost footprints? After all, Ye Qiutang had also said that two people had disappeared in the Hall of Merit, and two more people had appeared behind her. In other words, the ghosts following them were essentially monks or possibly Taoists from the temple.

“Fatty, give me the knife!”

Jiang Cheng naturally wouldn't be stupid enough to use the knife to directly chop. He grabbed the handle of the knife, aimed, and threw the knife out fiercely. The tip of the knife pointed about 1 meter above the footprints.

This short knife was left by Song Laoxiansheng's group. Although it couldn't be considered as sharp as cutting mud, it was by no means ordinary. Coupled with Jiang Cheng's strength and accuracy, as long as the other party had human body attributes, then this knife would basically kill them.

But the next second, the knife slammed into the air above the ghost footprints, and even made a crisp sound, which was the sound of metal colliding. Then the knife bounced off.

“It's useless…”

Although this result was expected, Jiang Cheng couldn't help but feel annoyed.

“We can't hurt these evil spirits at all, so what about these evil spirits themselves?” Ye Qiutang seemed to have thought of something, and her whole person became abnormally excited. “We can use these evil spirits to influence themselves, right behind us. We just need to control the distance.”

Ye Qiutang's description was a bit chaotic, but Jiang Cheng quickly understood what she meant. She wanted to use these ghosts to influence each other, that is, to use the evil spirits behind her to restrain the evil spirits behind him.

Since these ghosts only exist in the space that he and Ye Qiutang can see, what if these ghosts collide with each other?

Would it cause some new friction?

No sooner said than done. Since these things were haunting them, there was also an advantage in dealing with them. Jiang Cheng calculated the distance. He and Ye Qiutang closed their eyes at the same time, then stood back-to-back, and walked to both sides at the same time. The advantage of this was that at a certain distance, the ghosts following them would overlap, and this was very likely to be their chance to break the situation.

One step, two steps… Jiang Cheng silently calculated the distance in his heart. Just as he was about to touch the string in his heart, a strange force suddenly pushed him forward.

“Huh?”

At the same time, there was also a low cry from Ye Qiutang, which seemed to be the same as Jiang Cheng's encounter.

“Don't move!”

After Jiang Cheng asked Ye Qiutang to stand still, he slowly retreated alone, but he found that he couldn't retreat back. There was always a strange force affecting him. If he had to describe it, it was somewhat similar to the repulsion of the same poles of a magnet.

In the end, Jiang Cheng made up his mind and slammed into the back, but the result was that Ye Qiutang, who was 10 meters away, was almost knocked down.

“It still doesn't work…”

One failure after another made Jiang Cheng even more irritable. There was not much time left for them. There was probably a big hurdle at the Sutra Depository.

Jiang Cheng finally made up his mind and looked at Fatty. As if he had received a call, Fatty nodded naturally. “Just tell me what you need me to do.”

“Fatty, I need you to go see Monk Huicong too, and then get trapped too.”

“Okay.” Fatty nodded directly without thinking, and then walked towards the window.

“Wait, let me finish talking!” Jiang Cheng interrupted, “You have to go to the other side first, the place where we were watching at the beginning, go there and look again before coming back.”

Jiang Cheng took out his mobile phone in front of Ye Qiutang and called Fatty, “Keep talking to me. Don't hang up. Go first, and then come back quickly.”

Worried that Fatty would encounter danger on the road or even be replaced, Jiang Cheng had no choice but to do this. He really wanted to accompany Fatty, but he was worried that the thing behind him would continue to approach. Jiang Cheng probably understood that he and Ye Qiutang were imprisoned in a range of about 10 meters in radius, centered on the window in front of them.

If they left this circle, they would face the pursuit of the ghost footprints.

“Don't say useless words. Sing. Any song will do, and don't stop.” Jiang Cheng instructed on the phone. Fatty was about to leave his sight.

Singing can relieve tension. At the same time, if Fatty was really replaced, then Jiang Cheng didn't believe that a ghost would sing to him on the other end of the phone. At least the ghosts in this temple were unlikely to do such a thing.

Fortunately, Fatty came back quickly, in about a few minutes. After returning, Jiang Cheng had already found a position. He and Ye Qiutang were back-to-back, with just the right distance in between to feel the repulsive force. In Jiang Cheng's understanding, he and Ye Qiutang had tightly "squeezed" the two ghosts together.

According to Jiang Cheng's estimation, after Fatty also triggered the "Ponytail Girl" curse, new footprint ghosts would appear on the two ghosts that were tightly squeezed together. At this time, there would be two situations.

First, the space would be compressed, and the three of them would be squeezed apart again.

Second, unpredictable events would occur after the three ghosts overlapped, and the consequences would be unknown.