The fear of fire seemed to stem from the deepest parts of their souls, causing the horde of ghouls to hesitate for a moment.
Amidst the sustained burning of the fire, the high temperatures had dried out the moisture within these monsters' bodies, making them dangerously susceptible to being ignited.
This was why neither Chu Zihang nor the others had previously discovered this weakness. The first ghoul that ambushed them had initially shown little fear of the curtain of fire and the mermaid oil, but that was because that meager amount of flame was not enough to ignite its moisture-rich body.
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