It turns out, just like humans, the dead spirits are very keen on romantic affairs. These two dead spirits were engaging in such intimate acts, emitting ambiguous sounds that attracted other dead spirits from outside the valley, leading to the previous incident.
Ultimately, the true culprits who put Wang Xiaoqiang and Little Zhang in danger were these two dead spirits. Now that they have become Wang Xiaoqiang's puppets, it's considered just punishment.
Narrowly escaping disaster and turning misfortune into a blessing by acquiring two dead spirits as puppets, Wang Xiaoqiang was overjoyed. Seeing the two dead spirits completely subdued, he retracted the Holy Path of Courage, then with a thought, the Patterned Beast flew over with the unconscious Little Zhang.
Wang Xiaoqiang opened his Heavenly Eye and scanned, seeing that Little Zhang's head had five tiny holes pierced by the eerie red light of the dead spirits, but his skull wasn't penetrated.
