Mo Ze Chen looked around him, but the golden glow had already disappeared, so he had no idea what had happened. As he had been flying towards the ghost, he had closed his eyes when he had accepted his fate, so he hadn't seen the golden glow wrap around himself.
All he knew was that there was a flash of light before he landed on the ground. He had seen that flash of light even though he had closed his eyes, which showed just how bright it had been.
Mo Ze Chen looked around at the ash around himself and remembered what had happened when his boss had fought those ghosts before.
After remembering this, Mo Ze Chen turned to look at Lin Fan with grateful eyes.
Adding up everything, it was clear that Lin Fan was the one who had saved him since he knew that he didn't have this same power. It was too bad that he was wrong.
Lin Fan didn't care about any of this as he continued looking at Mo Ze Chen.
Lin Fan had thrown Mo Ze Chen because he wanted to see what would happen after the golden glow had entered Mo Ze Chen, but of course he was also prepared to save him if anything happened since Mo Ze Chen was still important to him.
The most important thing right now to him was seeing how this golden glow worked because it seemed to be the key to everything here.
There were two important things that had just been confirmed for Lin Fan just now.
The first was that Mo Ze Chen indeed had the golden glow after the golden glow around the ring had entered him. Just like Lin Fan, there was now a golden diamond that had appeared on his forehead where the golden glow came from.
The second was that the golden glow around Mo Ze Chen was much thinner compared to the one that was around Lin Fan. However, that also made sense since Lin Fan had sucked in more of this golden glow compared to Mo Ze Chen, as well as absorbing something of higher quality like the pen from the school.
Lin Fan didn't mind this, but what he did care about was if this golden glow around Mo Ze Chen could become even thicker.
After thinking this through, Lin Fan decided that there was no point in wasting any more time since he couldn't make sense of the ring at all, so it was better to find another place to test his theory. After all, he was slowly running out of time.
Lin Fan had been keeping track of the time and after spending around an hour in this hospital, there was only five hours left in their trial. If he didn't seize his time, he might lose his chance to solve the mystery of the ruins.
For him, solving the mystery of the ruins was secondary to passing the Hunters Exam, so there was no way for him to get rid of the teleport pearl that he was given. Even if he couldn't solve the mystery in the end, he would still let himself be teleported out.
Lin Fan led Mo Ze Chen down the hallways until they came to another special room.
Unlike the last one, this one didn't have scattered body parts of ghosts outside the door, but rather there were plenty of bowls that were placed there.
It seemed like the ghost that was inside this cell ate quite a bit, but that was also strange for Lin Fan since he had never seen the ghost eat anything. Well, that is they hadn't eaten any food, though he did see the ghosts sucking away life force from Brainy's puppet earlier.
Lin Fan couldn't help wondering how these ghosts got nutrients, but he also threw that thought quickly into the back of his mind since that wasn't important.
Lin Fan went up to the door and peeked in to find even more bowls. It was almost as if every part of this room was covered in bowls and there didn't seem to be any free space at all.
Well, there was one part of the room that wasn't covered in bowls.
The only part of the room that wasn't covered in bowls was right in the center where there was a fat ghost sitting there with a bowl in his hand, eating something out of it.
It seemed that even after becoming a ghost, this ghost didn't stop eating.
Though as for why it was fat, it was strange since Lin Fan couldn't remember seeing a single fat ghost on his way here. Even among the giant crowd of ghosts that he had witnessed with the ghost commander, he hadn't seen a single fat one.
Could it be that these ghosts evolved based on their cultivation realms and they were all the same until they reached a certain realm?
Then if they continued growing their cultivation, would they keep evolving?
Lin Fan was certain that they were evolving since he could tell that this ghost had a cultivation in the Child Soul Realm just like the last one.
Only those that seemed to be in the Child Soul Realm had something different with them, just like the principal ghost and the straitjacket ghost from before.
After thinking for a bit, Lin Fan didn't waste any time heading into the room with the fat ghost.
He didn't pause for even a second as he charged in with his sword drawn, but he was surprised by this fat ghost.
Seeing how fat it was, he wouldn't have thought that it was nimble, but that was where he was wrong. When this fat ghost noticed Lin Fan, he immediately jumped up and bounced around the room, landing on the bowls before jumping from them stack by stack. As he jumped from stack to stack, there wasn't a single bowl that fell down or broke under his weight.
Looking at him, it was almost as if he didn't weigh a single thing as he jumped from stack to stack.
Lin Fan was surprised, but that didn't mean that he wasn't able to keep up. However, the problem was that the bowls kept getting in his way since he couldn't jump over them like the fat ghost was doing, the only thing he could do was charge through them.
In the end, Lin Fan gave up. He changed his sword into the giant sword and with one big swing, he shattered all the bowls in the room, causing the shattered pieces to slam into the walls and gather as fragments on the corner of the room.
With the giant wind that was raised by the sword, the fat ghost was like a feather that was blown right into the wall, but there was no impact at all since the fat ghost didn't have any weight at all.
Seeing this, Lin Fan could easily tell that this fat ghost was making use of gravity laws to control its weight, which was why it was able to move as freely as this.
The fat ghost looked at the shattered fragments on the ground and shook its head before jumping off the wall into the air. Once it was in the air, it flipped once before turning to face Lin Fan with a claw pointed right at him.
The fat ghost just floated there for a few seconds before suddenly falling down, increasing its speed with every second that it fell.
This room was actually quite big compared to the other rooms, so there was enough space for this fat ghost to fall. It continued to fall faster and faster until it reached a speed that was even faster than the straitjacket ghost from before.
Being right under the fat ghost, Lin Fan could feel the pressure that was coming from it since its laws of gravity also affected those under it.
However, even under that pressure, Lin Fan drew back his sword over his head to prepare for a single slash.
The fat ghost was surprised to see that Lin Fan didn't gather a single law, but it was also confident in its strength as it continued to gather speed.
It was like a flaming comet that was falling down to earth as it fell down above Lin Fan, but Lin Fan didn't panic at all as he looked right at it. At the last second, Lin Fan suddenly swung his sword over his head.
The moment right before the sword made contact, there was the same golden glow that came from Lin Fan's forehead to completely wrap around the sword, covering it completely.
The fat ghost's expression changed the moment it saw this, but it didn't have any time to do a single thing or even say anything as Lin Fan's sword had already met it head on. The sword didn't feel any resistance at all as it cut right through the ghost's claw and continued to cut through the fat ghost until it had been split cleanly in half.
The two halves fell to both sides of Lin Fan and when it hit the floor, there was a strong impact sound as a crater formed in the ground. It was a good thing that they were on the first floor, or else the floor under Lin Fan definitely would have crumbled away.
But based on how wide the holes were, it was clear just how heavy the fat ghost had made itself with its gravity laws.
Lin Fan didn't do a thing as he stood there watching the ghost as it turned to ash.
The two sides of the ghost's mouth still moved as if trying to say anything, but since its vocal cords had been burnt away, it couldn't say a thing.
Once the ghost had completely disappeared into ashes, there was a golden ring that suddenly appeared out of nowhere.