Door.

What is a door?

A device installed at a barrier that can be opened and closed, leading from one place to another, is a door.

A room door is a door, a house door is a door, a city gate is a door, even a car curtain lifted is considered a door.

Following this logic, perhaps... even places without doors might be silently considered as doors.

As long as you enter a new place, even if it's just a cave or a wardrobe, it counts as... entering a door.

But no matter which door you enter, the place you end up isn't where you originally were, but... the Carpenter's Shop.

The carpenter has work to do.

His work is you.

He's waiting for you.

Li Yuan and Pang Yuanhua are not fools, both have realized that this Carpenter's Shop presents a terrifying curse.

If there's no accident, they can only live in the wild without any doors, even avoiding entering the forest, because the trees in the forest might curve and create a "door" between the branches.

They can only live in vast open places.

But is it really safe this way?

Their understanding of the Carpenter's Shop is only superficial.

Just like Li Yuan could never imagine, extracting himself from Hua Mo County early, even wandering several laps in front of the Ghost Servant without incident, but merely lifting a curtain, he inadvertently crashed into the Carpenter's Shop and was then afflicted by the curse.

This is an accident based on a lack of information.

But could there be more accidents?

The answer is yes.

Li Yuan and Pang Yuanhua are not arrogant or careless people.

In the twilight, the evening wind gently blows.

There is sunlight, so it isn't too cold.

The young man and the gaunt girl sit cross-legged.

Truth be told, Li Yuan is very afraid.

But at this moment, he can only face it head-on.

Suddenly, Li Yuan stands up, the Shadow Blood that clung to him before is repelled by the power from every inch of his skin, bouncing off, leaving his clothes still blood-red, but his body and face are now clean.

He casually tears off the sticky outer clothing, the bloodstained hairpin, standing bare-chested in the cold wind, his black hair loose.

His muscles are not exaggerated, but very dense, each inch appearing extremely solid, and his control over his body is very precise; if he wants only one drop of blood to flow from a pore, it will never be two.

Li Yuan draws the Long Blade from his waist suddenly, swinging out a flash of silver.

Boom!

The upper half of the carriage flies up, crashes down with a rumble in the distance, the horses startled, raising their hooves and neighing, but Li Yuan holds them with ease.

He turns back to look, the originally enclosed carriage has become an open-top carriage.

Li Yuan is just about to leap in when Pang Yuanhua suddenly rises and urgently shouts, "Senior, hold on."

Li Yuan turns slightly.

Pang Yuanhua gives a bitter smile and says, "Without absolute certainty, Senior should not attempt it lightly.

We don't know whether this counts as a door to the Carpenter's Shop...

If it does, Senior will enter the Carpenter's Shop again.

And this entry is meaningless..."

Li Yuan indeed wanted to test.

He has so many things to test...

"Then what method do you have?"

"I... can take you to a place, Senior.

Before, I couldn't tell you because I had to keep it secret.

But now since Senior is also cursed by the Carpenter's Shop and managed to escape, Senior is already....."

The gaunt girl considered for a moment, then continued, "Like me."

After saying this, she added two words, "Xinghai."

Xinghai.

Drawn into the Ghost Realm, doomed to die yet not dead.

Possessing some special powers, drifting outside the world of normal Martial Arts, living people shy away from them, yet they seem like ghosts wandering outside the world, no one knowing what they are doing or what they want to do.

Li Yuan had already known this information from General Gu Xiang and Elder Ding and others.

Comparing it, he fits all the characteristics and indeed counts as Xinghai.

As for the deep experience in Xiao Mo Mountain before, he was lucky to rely on the "memories supplemented by raising his realm" to block the ghost's attack front-on, so that time cannot be said to be doomed yet not dead, for he had already completely escaped "doomed."

"So there exists a special secret known only to Xinghai, and Xinghai must keep it secret from outsiders, right?" Li Yuan naturally made the deduction.

"Yes, Senior, this is also our only hope," Pang Yuanhua's voice was very calm.

Li Yuan thought for a moment, looked at Tang Nian and Old Wang, who were scared stiff by his side, and instead of touching Tang Nian, he called out, "Niannian, don't be afraid."

Tang Nian finally awoke from her dream, she was still trembling, but with eyes full of suffering she looked at her honorary father beside her.

Her honorary father was strong like a Fierce Beast, but... her honorary father... why did he get involved in such strange things?

She had lost her biological father, she didn't want to lose her honorary father again, here... was her last home.

"Honorary father... honorary father..." The young girl burst into tears, full of genuine emotion, fear, and worry.

Li Yuan saw through his adopted daughter's thoughts, felt a little warmth in his heart, and said from a distance, "Niannian, listen to me.

From now on, don't go anywhere, and especially don't enter any doors.

You just wait for your honorary father here.

In three days, if your honorary father doesn't return, ride a horse, or on your Big Puppet... go around, see if there are any bandits, if there are, catch one or two, break their hands, and have them follow you.

After reaching Shanbao County, have the bandits enter the city first, if nothing happens to them, then you go in.

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