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A tremendous force pulled her body back, and then she swung in mid-air like a pendulum.

A hemp rope was tied around the woman's neck, digging deeply into it.

This woman actually hanged herself right in front of him!?

This undoubtedly made things even worse for Haruyuki Arita, who was already under a lot of stress.

He felt like he was about to collapse.

What exactly is going on with this forest?!

Before Haruyuki Arita could react...

The woman who had hanged herself suddenly opened her eyes, her dark pupils staring straight at Haruyuki Arita under the tree with an incredibly eerie look.

"what!"

Haruyuki Arita took a few steps back, then turned and ran without hesitation.

Before he had run far, Haruyuki Arita saw a woman in a white gauze dress float out from behind a tree, stretch out a hand with sharp nails, and grab at him.

Seemingly instinctively, Haruyuki Arita turned and ran again without a second thought.

After running for an unknown amount of time, Haruyuki Arita stopped.

He suddenly felt a strange, prying gaze fall upon him.

He subconsciously looked in the direction the gaze was coming from.

A man was hiding behind a tree, peeking out with half his head.

This man is clearly not human.

His body was ethereal, and his eyes were just two dark holes, with two lines of dried black blood tears imprinted on his pale face.

Without a second thought, Haruyuki Arita turned and ran away again.

When he stopped, the gazes that had been watching him reappeared.

It's still the same man.

Moreover, Haruyuki Arita was horrified to discover that the man seemed to be getting closer to him.

Previously, he was hiding behind a tree about ten meters away, but now he is only seven or eight meters away.

Haruyuki Arita escaped again.

When he stopped, the man who had been spying on him reappeared, this time behind a bush about three or four meters away.

Terror slowly crept closer to him.

Haruyuki Arita chose to run away again.

The man watching him seemed to have his eye on him, drawing closer and closer...

When Haruyuki Arita finally stopped and cautiously looked around, he was surprised to find that the man had not reappeared.

Haruyuki Arita was puzzled. The last time, the man was less than a meter away from him, and his strange gaze kept staring at him, which almost drove him crazy.

This time, the man had disappeared.

'I...I got rid of him?'

The thought had barely crossed Haruyuki Arita's mind when he felt himself being watched again, and this time...

The gaze was clearly coming from behind him!

Immediately afterwards, a face with a strange smile slowly emerged from behind Haruyuki Arita!

"Ah!! Don't come any closer!"

The taut string of 'reason' in Haruyuki Arita's mind finally snapped under constant stimulation.

His palm was instantly covered by a dark blue laser, which quickly condensed into the shape of a wrist blade.

Haruyuki Arita suddenly turned around and swiftly slashed his lightsaber across the man's body.

The man who had been spying on him seemed not to have expected Haruyuki Arita to suddenly erupt. He was caught off guard and his body was cleaved in two by the laser sword, instantly turning to ashes.

Just then.

One by one, headless female corpses dressed in white emerged from behind the trees and silently surrounded Haruyuki Arita.

However, this time, Haruyuki Arita did not choose to run away.

"Ah! Kill! Kill them all!!"

He suddenly raised his head and roared, like a wild beast driven to the brink of despair, raising his lightsaber and charging towards the headless female corpse without looking back.

For a moment, blue sword light shimmered in the mist, tracing beautiful arcs that symbolized death...

I don't know how much time passed, but the commotion in the fog finally disappeared.

Haruyuki Arita braced himself on his knees, breathing heavily.

The mental fatigue was fully reflected in my physical body.

Around him, the headless female corpses appeared like a mirage, with bubbles rising from their bodies, gradually turning into phantoms, fading, and finally disappearing completely into the air.

After the vengeful spirit disappeared, a ghostly blue light suddenly flashed before Haruyuki Arita's eyes.

Haruyuki Arita suddenly looked up and saw a light blue sphere of light floating not far in front of him, enveloping a palm-sized crystal statue.

The statue's image is almost identical to that of the headless goddess in the shrine.

No one told him or gave him any hints.

But the moment he saw the statue, Haruyuki Arita inexplicably became certain that this crystal statue was the offering he was looking for.

Haruyuki Arita quickly stood up, walked over, and reached out to grasp the statue.

Just after he took the statue from the halo, the surrounding mist began to dissipate rapidly and soon disappeared without a trace.

The Forest of Lost Souls has returned to its original state.

Haruyuki Arita tried to spread his wings and fly into the sky, and this time he encountered no obstacles.

Soon, a silvery-white shooting star streaked across the sky above the Forest of Lost Souls, flying towards the direction of the shrine.

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Just as Haruyuki Arita was being chased around by the vengeful spirits in the Lost Forest, Fujino Asagami followed Xu Ming's directions and arrived at the 'Ancestral Shrine' located in a nearby valley.

This is a concave valley, covering an area larger than a football field.

Looking into the valley from the entrance, one sees nothing but dilapidated stone tablets, stone pagodas, and tombs.

A rough count reveals that the number of tombstones is definitely over three digits, suggesting that the Yukinoshita clan has been continuously burying their members here ever since they settled on the island.

Now, the tombstones are piled up densely, and even the entrance is lined with tombstones, leaving only a narrow path for three or four people to walk side by side leading into the cemetery.

Gray and white became the main colors here, and death became the main theme.

Occasionally, strange howling sounds can be heard from the graveyard, as well as howling sounds like crying as the wind blows through the gaps between the graves.

Such a terrifying place, let alone a young girl coming alone, even if she were to come with a few muscular men, they might not dare to wander around here after midnight.

However, Asagami Fujino is no ordinary girl.

Faced with these horrific scenes, Asagami Fujino's expression remained unchanged, and her steps were unwavering as she walked directly into the graveyard through the entrance.

Chapter 387 Ancestor Sacrifice

Upon entering the cemetery, the atmosphere became even more eerie.

Asagami Fujino was surrounded by all sorts of tombstones.

Some of the tombstones are carved with obscure and difficult-to-understand characters, some with strange patterns, and some have their main bodies damaged, with the tombs collapsed to reveal huge pits, as if the things inside had escaped.

call!

Before Asagami Fujino had taken more than a few steps, a ghostly green light flashed from behind a tombstone.

Asagami Fujino turned her head, stared at that spot with a cold expression for a couple of seconds, and then continued walking forward.

Shortly after she left, the two stone lanterns in front of the tombstone suddenly lit up with a ghostly green light.

The stone coffin lid, which had been tightly sealed, slowly and silently slid open, and a grayish-white arm reached out from the gap...

As Asagami Fujino ventured deeper into the cemetery, the atmosphere around her grew increasingly eerie.

However, from an outsider's perspective, Asagami Fujino, dressed in a black nun's habit, with ink-black hair, scarlet pupils, and a gloomy demeanor, wandering in the cemetery at midnight, would likely also be considered part of the ghost stories.

Goo!

Strange calls came from an unidentified bird in the distance.

There were constant rustling and scraping sounds coming from all around, as if something was slowly crawling on the ground, but Asagami Fujino looked around but found nothing.

The layers upon layers of tombstones completely blocked her view.

Asagami Fujino did not stop and continued walking deeper into the cemetery.

After navigating the maze of tombstones, Asagami Fujino unknowingly arrived at the center of the ancestral shrine.

Here stands an enormous tombstone, over 3 meters tall.

The huge stone slab was carved with a large number of obscure and difficult-to-understand characters and patterns, which have long been blurred after hundreds of years of wind and rain.

The edges and corners of the tombstone were covered with green moss, which seemed to be alive and spread towards the center.

A peculiar mirror is inlaid in the very center of the stone slab.

Despite not being cleaned for a long time, the mirror was covered with various stains and was already blurry.

But Asagami Fujino could still vaguely see her face in the mirror.

In front of the tombstone is a small stone table with a palm-sized stone sculpture on it.

The shape of this statue is one that Asagami Fujino has seen before; it is that of the headless goddess enshrined in the Akahama Shrine.

Asagami Fujino instinctively felt that this was the 'sacrifice' she was looking for.

Without hesitation, she reached out and grabbed the stone sculpture.

However, just as her fingers were about to touch the stone sculpture, a pale, somewhat ethereal arm suddenly stretched out from the mirror!

He grabbed Asagami Fujino's wrist!