The Moon Ghosts were banding together. Finding themselves unable to match the cultivators in combat, they naturally sought safety in numbers when left with no other choice.
By the third month in the Secret Realm, aside from people like Gu Chengshu—who roamed about despite having no other human cultivators in sight and being confident enough to handle a large squad of Moon Ghosts—the rest had either gone into hiding or attached themselves to cultivators who possessed formidable array formations. Huddling together for warmth, they lured the Moon Ghost armies into the formations whenever possible and then split the spoils among themselves.
At Fenling Mountain, the squad that had gone out searching for Moon Ghosts had returned empty-handed for days running, and the old man, who had previously been quite unconcerned, could not help but grow anxious.
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