At night, the sky turns dark red, making people feel very depressed, and the ghostly aura around is even heavier. In this environment, formations and barriers are as conspicuous as fireflies in the dark night because they emit spiritual energy.

And spiritual energy represents the presence of people and food.

It will definitely attract those ghosts.

So she had to try her best to abandon the monks' methods and use ordinary methods to build a safe house.

Xue Huan found a suitable location and started digging a hole. When she dug about three or four meters, she took out a pre-built stone house from the space. The stone house was only two or three square meters, but it was enough for one person to move around.

The door of the stone house was on the top, a small entrance like a cellar.

After the stone house was set up, Xue Huan covered it with the soil she had dug out, leaving only the entrance and exit.

While doing these things, she set up a formation around her so that her movements could not be detected. After all, one must always be on guard against others.

Just as Xue Huan entered the stone house and removed the formation, Xiang Maoyan and the other man came over.

Xiao Ziqiong looked at the darkness around her, the thick fog spreading, and the eerie ghost lights looming, which was quite scary. She hugged Xiang Maoyan's arm and said, "Brother Yan, let's stop and leave tomorrow morning."

Xiang Maoyan nodded: "Alright, it's really not a good idea to travel at night."

The two landed just seven or eight meters away from Xue Huan's stone house, and she could hear their voices.

"Brother Yan, it's so cold." Xiao Ziqiong snuggled into Xiang Maoyan's arms.

It's not that I'm being pretentious, but as the ghost energy spreads, the temperature in the secret realm suddenly drops a lot. This coldness is not simply due to the drop in temperature, but because the ghost energy will continue to drill into the human body, eroding the yang energy in the human body.

When there is less Yang energy, people will naturally feel cold. This cold comes from the inside out, and no matter how many clothes you put on, it will be useless.

Xiang Maoyan also felt it, and he said, "You sit down, I'll go pick up some dry wood and branches to start a fire."

Xiao Ziqiong didn't want to be separated from him, so she said, "I'll pick it up too."

The two men picked up firewood and started a fire. However, the firewood had been contaminated by ghost spirits for many years, and even after it was lit, it kept emitting black smoke, which was very suffocating. The fire was still very small and would go out after burning for a while. The two men had no choice but to keep adding firewood to the fire.

But the fire in the bonfire could not be started and only remained at a level that was barely able to be extinguished.

But at least there is a fire. The fire not only warms people, but also increases their courage.

People gradually arrived, and when they saw the fire, they simply gathered around it. There's courage in numbers.

Although the monks are not afraid of ghosts, this secret realm is really weird, and they subconsciously want to stay with more companions.

Compared with the group outside, Xue Huan, who had been prepared and hid in the stone house, felt much more comfortable.

In the small space, there is a fireplace in the north corner. The firewood inside is burning vigorously, and the flames give the whole cabin a warm color.

Against the east wall was a single bed, covered with thick, warm bedding and supported by soft pillows. A large, luminous pearl was embedded in the bronze lamp at the head of the bed, and it shone even brighter in the light of the fire.

There is a dust-free mattress on the floor in front of the bed, so you won't feel cold even if you step on it barefoot.

There is a hanging table on the west wall. You can put it down when you need it and put it up when you don't need it.

Although the room was small, it was warm and clean. Xue Huan sat on the bed and ate a simple yet hearty dinner.

After dinner, she used tongs to pick out two sweet potatoes buried in the fireplace, and ate them with a spoon while reading a book.

The sweet potatoes are roasted until they are oozing with oil, and the orange-red flesh is oozing with sugar, as if it is about to melt. A bite of it is hot, sweet, and delicious.

The secret realm was not suitable for cultivation, so Xue Huan ate the sweet potatoes, soaked her feet, washed up, and went to bed.

Get enough sleep and stay in good spirits so that you can be more fully prepared to deal with possible crises tomorrow.

After thinking about her handsome husband and lovely daughter for a while, Xue Huan fell asleep unknowingly.

Most of the firewood in the fireplace was gone, but it was still emitting residual heat.

The materials Xue Huan used to build this stone house were exactly those that were dug out from the cave with the Yin-Yang Pond in Lingyun Mountain. It is heat-insulating and cold-isolating. The cold outside cannot penetrate, and the temperature inside will not escape. It is simply a natural thermal insulation building material.

Xue Huan was sleeping soundly when she suddenly heard a heart-wrenching scream.

She woke up suddenly and sent her consciousness out, and found a huge skull hanging in the air. In the skull's mouth, a person was being chewed up and down. The lower half of the person had been eaten, and the upper half was hanging upside down by the skull's mouth, screaming constantly.

"Save me—"

Combined with the dark red sky and thick white fog, the scene was truly terrifying.

Before the man could finish his words, the giant skeleton chewed and swallowed him, and blood splattered everywhere.

After eating one person, the skeleton giant seemed to have opened its appetite. In its empty eye sockets, two balls of dark purple flames burned like pupils, looking at the other monks who were fleeing below.

"Damn Zuo Si, he's just like his name suggests, courting death! And he even wants to implicate us..."

"Everyone told him to stop being so wicked, but he wouldn't listen and deliberately used the skull as a urinal. Now, the skull has come back to life and is seeking revenge!"

"Ahhh what should I do? That skull is chasing me! I don't want to die here!"

From the complaints of those people, Xue Huan pieced together the general course of events.

The man who was eaten by the giant skeleton was called Zuo Si. As his name suggests, he liked to seek death and used the skull as a urinal when he urinated.

Tell Xue Huan, isn't this insane? She didn't even leave behind a complete corpse after death, and you're actually still insulting her remains?

As a result, the skull came back to life, became enormous, and could fly. Its strength skyrocketed, and it came looking for revenge. The first one it went after was of course Zuo Si. After eating Zuo Si, the skull felt that it was not enough, so it attacked others, no, it ate them.

Every wrong has its perpetrator, and every debt has its creditor. The skull ate Zuo Si, and Xue Huan felt that Zuo Si asked for it, but it also wanted to eat others, so she couldn't just watch and do nothing.

She quickly put on her clothes, came out of the small door on the stone roof, stepped on the spirit boat and rose into the air. Her spiritual sense controlled the snowflake knife to attack the skull like a meteor.

The skull dodged and turned, its eyeholes, two holes with flashing purple flames, aimed at her and opened its mouth wide to bite her.

There was a pitch-black darkness in the big mouth, as if a hole was torn in the sky and covering it.

Xue Huan was as small as an ant in front of this big mouth.

She simply put away the spirit boat, and a pair of phoenix wings formed by flames grew out of her back. With a light flap, she flew several miles away in an instant and quietly came to the top of the skeleton giant.

And the skeleton giant is still searching for her everywhere.

Xue Huan chopped down the Snowflake Knife in her hand with fire, and the powerful fire spiritual power spread into a huge blade, splitting the skull in half.