Chen Xu walked through the bustling crowd, examining one stall after another.
Every now and then, shadows laughed beside him, and the occasional scream seemed distant.
Paper lanterns swayed, whispering shadows of light.
He looked up at the pallid moonlight above, the moon high in the sky, with no sign of setting.
Yet, Chen Xu had no intention of wasting more time. He had perused most of the stalls and found that each stall invariably had a few items with word prompts appearing.
Such as: [Tears of Resentful Ghosts, containing Nine Nether Grudge, when dripped into a carefully prepared soup, can emit a peculiar fragrance that intoxicates ghosts.]
[Forgetfulness Mushroom, a wild fungus by the Yellow Springs road, when cooked, can cause all living and dead beings to lose all emotional fluctuations within a quarter of an hour.]
[Blood Wedding Dress, the skin from the chest of a young bride who hanged herself, when calcined and ground into powder, can increase the ghost's grudge…]
