In the dark courtyard, a red lantern floated over, emitting a crimson light. Strangely, its glow seemed to be sealed inside the lantern, unable to illuminate the surroundings.

The lantern floated to the door and stopped in front of Zhang Yuanqing. There was only a doorstep separating him and the red lantern.

Zhang Yuanqing could clearly sense that there was a ghost inside the doorstep, a terrifying and eerie ghost. However, no matter how he stared, he couldn't see the appearance of the ghost in the darkness.

He silently activated his Yin power, prepared to devour the spirit at any time.

Nightwalkers naturally suppressed spiritual beings, as long as the level of the spirit did not exceed their own.

A hand reached out from the darkness. Zhang Yuanqing looked with the faint red light and saw a dark greenish-black hand with black and eerie nails.

The ghostly hand held a stack of red-covered name cards, seemingly wanting Zhang Yuanqing to accept them.

Zhang Yuanqing didn't accept, but the ghostly hand kept extending the cards. Both sides were in a deadlock.

After a while, Xishi's trembling voice quietly reminded, "Wang Tai?"

She saw Wang Tai standing motionless, fearing that this man had triggered a crisis without realizing it and had already left.

Sigh, whether to take action or not... Zhang Yuanqing reluctantly accepted the name cards. The dark greenish-black ghost hand immediately retracted, and then the red lantern floated away and returned to the depths of the courtyard.

Zhang Yuanqing stepped back from the steps and returned to his teammates. He raised the name cards in his hand.

"There are five in total, it seems they are for us."

He distributed the name cards to his teammates one by one. Everyone unfolded the name cards, with red letters on a black background, written with the name and birth details of the bride, while the groom's side was blank.

The bride's name was "Bai Lan".

The sound of the instance prompt echoed in everyone's ears:

[Ding! You have received the wedding invitation from the ghost bride. Please fill in your name. The ghost bride will choose a groom after an hour.]

Fill in the name, and the bride will choose a groom in an hour?

What would happen if the ghost bride chose someone? Holding the wedding invitations, everyone's thoughts were in chaos.

Because Zhang Yuanqing was not honest when introducing himself and used Wang Tai's name, he was now in a dilemma. Should he write "Yuanshi Tianzun" or "Wang Tai"?

He couldn't determine if using a fake name would result in punishment.

While contemplating how to fill in the name, Zhang Yuanqing suddenly looked at his companions and said, "Do you remember the introduction to the amusement park? An indescribable existence came here and asked the spirits in the amusement park to help find a young person with a four-character name."

Xishi and the others naturally remembered, but they didn't understand why he brought it up.

Xie Lingxi's mind was the quickest, and she glanced at the wedding invitation in her hand. "Are you saying that there might be a connection between these two things?"

Following this train of thought, Xie Lingxi's face suddenly changed. "The indescribable person wants the ghost bride to find a young person, but she wants us to fill in our names. Doesn't this mean that the young person the ghost bride is looking for in the haunted house is a Spiritual Realm Walker?"

"How is that possible..." Xishi looked astonished.

They had all experienced multiple instances before. Generally speaking, the introduction to the Spiritual Realm was just background information, telling you what kind of place it was and what had happened there.

It was only meant to help Spiritual Realm Walkers quickly understand the instance.

Before this, they thought that the person the indescribable person was looking for was someone in the Spiritual Realm, maybe even a monster.

It had nothing to do with "players".

How could a mere Spiritual Realm Walker change the essence of a Spiritual Realm?

"It's probably just a coincidence. Since it's a ghost marriage, the names must be written." Sun Wukong furrowed his brows.

No, it's not a coincidence, because the previous version of the guide didn't mention anything about wedding invitations. It only appeared after the change in the Spiritual Realm, combined with the introduction to the Spiritual Realm. I don't believe there is no connection between the two... Zhang Yuanqing secretly remained vigilant.

Whether it was an illusion or not, he felt a strong sense of familiarity with the information in the introduction to the Spiritual Realm.

"Sizzle... That day, she came to Jinshui Amusement Park..."

Suddenly, the Cat King speaker in Zhang Yuanqing's pocket made a sound.

Everyone immediately looked at his pocket, but the Cat King speaker stopped speaking.

Why did it stop? This speaker is strange... Zhang Yuanqing waited for a few more seconds, seeing that the speaker remained silent, he stopped paying attention and said, "Let's fill in the names first."

He unfolded the wedding invitation and tried to write "Wang Tai" in the name column with a pen.

His thinking was that since the spirits in the haunted house gave the requirement to write names, it meant that 'she' couldn't see the true IDs of the Spiritual Realm Walkers, otherwise the wedding invitations would be unnecessary.

Therefore, it could be inferred that the instances allowed Spiritual Realm Walkers to disguise their IDs, but it was not explicitly stated and needed to be deduced and understood by themselves.

It would be fine to write "Yuanshi Tianzun" as well, but there might be a crisis of trust among teammates... Zhang Yuanqing thought to himself. Then he saw the 'pen strokes' written by his fingers, forming black letters:

Wang Tai.

He then fabricated the birth details, and well, he didn't fabricate the gender.

The four teammates followed suit, using the pen.

Xie Lingxi tiptoed and timidly glanced at Zhang Yuanqing's wedding invitation. Then she wrote her own name and hesitated for a moment before filling in "male" in the gender column.

After finishing writing the wedding invitations, Zhang Yuanqing put it in his pocket and took the lead to step over the doorstep, saying, "Let's go in, it's best to follow behind me."

Seeing the tense expressions on their teammates' faces, he joked to lighten the mood, "I have a strong destiny since I was young. Even female ghosts have to consider maternity leave when they see me."

Everyone: "..."

At a time like this, making this joke, are you really brave or not afraid of death? There is indeed a ghost bride inside.

Isn't this joke funny enough? Zhang Yuanqing glanced at their expressions and stopped talking, silently entering the house.

Behind the doorstep was an outer courtyard, quite large in scale. In the middle was a stone-paved path, with corridors on both sides against the outer walls.

As the group crossed the doorstep, the red lanterns hanging under the eaves of the corridors lit up mysteriously, adding a touch of deep red to the dark night. The red lanterns seemed like crimson eyes, silently gazing at the newcomers entering the courtyard.

At the end of the stone path was a grand hall with raised corners, and the lattice door was tightly closed. Dim light seeped out from the door.

"Huh..." Just as they crossed the doorstep, Zhang Yuanqing's eyes brightened. "Did you guys notice if your skills and inventory were sealed?"

Fire Demon and the others were stunned, some sensing their skills, some checking their inventory, and were pleasantly surprised to find that their abilities and items were not sealed in this instance.

They were both happy and worried. Happy because they finally had confidence when facing danger. Worried because opening up items and skills meant that the danger level of the haunted house was not ordinary.

Under Zhang Yuanqing's lead, the group walked slowly, their footsteps the only sound in the silent night.

"Ah~"

In the midst of their concentration, they suddenly heard a scream, startling them.

Fire Demon angrily turned around and glared at Xishi, saying, "Why did you scream like a ghost?"

Xishi's face turned pale, pointing tremblingly at the corridor about ten meters away, and said in a trembling voice, "There, under the lantern, there's a woman..."

Everyone quickly turned their heads, only to see the lantern hanging high, silent and soundless. Where did the ghostly figure come from?

With this interruption, the already nervous four people became even more serious.

Zhang Yuanqing was fine, as he had experienced a supernatural instance before and was a Nightwalker himself, no longer having that deep fear from the bottom of his heart.

In his eyes, ghosts were no different from Transformers.

There was a heavy sense of ghostly aura here, with Yin energy everywhere, which would actually numb his senses. Spirits that were too weak or too far away, he couldn't sense them. However, I can use the Exorcism Staff now, and I'm not afraid even if the ghost bride comes... Zhang Yuanqing comforted his teammates while leading the way.

"Did you guys notice that the instance only gave us a one-hour hint for the ghost bride to choose a groom?"

Blind fear is meaningless. He used information to distract his teammates' attention and ease their emotions. "My idea is that our actions and behavior in the next hour will become the criteria for the ghost bride to choose a groom."

"I just don't know if becoming the groom means you'll survive or die... Also, the Yin energy here is very heavy and contains many dangers. Maybe we won't even last an hour and all perish."

I don't know if the ghost bride is still a fan of appearances. If she is, as the most handsome person in our team, I feel a lot of pressure... Zhang Yuanqing joked, then glanced at their expressions and stopped talking, silently entering the house.

After Zhang Yuanqing pushed open the tightly closed lattice door, a creaking sound echoed in the night.

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Inside the hall, candles were held high, a red carpet covered the floor, red cloth hung from the pillars, and a table with candles and fruits was placed at the end of the red carpet. On the wall hung a bright red "Double Happiness" character.

On both sides of the red carpet stood seven or eight paper figures, dressed as ancient servants, with vivid eyebrows and eyes, and slightly raised vermilion lips.

The most eerie thing was that the heads of these paper figures were twisted at strange angles, with hollow eyes staring at the door, staring at the people who entered.

Dong dong dong... Xie Lingxi's face was filled with fear as she stepped back, covering her mouth to prevent herself from screaming.

At this moment, Zhang Yuanqing's scalp tingled.

Not because of fear, but because all these paper figures were ghosts...

After sensing carefully, he let out a breath. These were all minor ghosts.

Ghost bride, I might not be able to deal with you, but you little ghosts dare to be arrogant in front of me, this is too much! Zhang Yuanqing activated his Yin power, making his eyes dim. Qi sank into his dantian.

"Get out!"

The paper figures in the hall fell to the ground, and a chilling wind blew, with the sound of ghosts crying, as they scrambled to escape.

Xishi, Xie Lingxi, Fire Demon, and Sun Wukong behind him were stunned to see this.