They have been walking for an hour. Ghost Wei's Fiance has long been gone. Gu Meng offered to carry me so we can go faster because he can do qi gong jumping and I can't, not right now.
"You can though. If you are able to make things float, surely you can make your body float by will." Ghost Wei commented.
I rolled my eyes with the thought. "I can float and then what? Wouldn't be this qi gong flying Gu Meng would just pull me and carry me to the Minister's Manor. We don't want to go home yet, remember?"
While discussing the best way to escape, Gu Meng has creases between his brows. Surely, his patience and running out. In his mind, he was thinking he could have been with the Crown Prince helping him with whatever mission they have now.
I sighed within. Then suddenly, I can hear murmurs. "We can help, we can help!" I can clearly hear the surrounding plants and trees saying. "We can hide you!"
"That's a good idea" Ghost Wei also exclaimed. "Call forth the wind!"
I really don't know what happened but somehow, I felt a force coming out from me. The wind blew hard, blowing the dead leaves on the ground and suddenly, I was engulfed by branches and leaves.
"Don't move, don't even breath." Ghost Wei said.
I glared at her "What, you want me dead!" and as though in agreement with the Ghost, a big old three opened its trunk and pushed me into a hallowed part of its body. Some leaves still cover my mouth as though preventing me to speak... and breath.
"Crazy plants, crazy plants!" I shouted inside my mind.
Gu Meng, after getting control of the flying leaves, stood still as the wind suddenly stopped blowing. He then looked around and realized that Jun Wun Lu has somehow disappeared. He can't even feel a trace of her presence.
The hairs of his body suddenly stood up. He is not superstitious, but perhaps, they just encountered a ghost? After, Jun Wun Lu was said to have died near this forest. Wouldn't that make this forest a haunted place?
Gu Meng paled and decided to go after the Crown Prince to report this phenomenon.
Meanwhile, the tree and the branches and the leaves relaxed the moment they felt that Gu Meng was no longer around.
"You can breath now." Ghost Wei said.
"What just happened?" I asked. For certainly, I didn't do anything peculiar. And talking to plants and controlling them is not something I can do before.
"That is what we call a Witch's Force in a cultivation world." Ghost Wei said with a creepy smile. Believe me, you won't want to see a ghost smiling.