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  Tang Hao wouldn't reveal the true situation either; after all, the spirit fruits in their storage bags contained extremely high spiritual energy, enough to make even a Dan-stage cultivator jealous.

  Tang Hao had no choice but to say: "We know the specific location of Bajin City, I can take you there."

  Song Ningwei hesitated, unsure of how to decide. Since the last time they failed to explore Qingmu City, Lingxian Pavilion had become a forbidden place for Miao Feng Sect, and even if someone knew about it, no one dared to go there.

  Song Ningwei shook her head and said: "I just want to know how you got out."

  Tang Hao looked at Qin Si Ruo and said: "Thanks to Qin Si Ruo's knowledge of array techniques, we were able to use the transmission gate inside to escape."

  Zhong Ling suddenly said: "No wonder you said you were transmitted in there."

  Song Ningwei smiled mysteriously: "Then have you ever gotten any benefits from being inside?"

  Tang Hao shook his head like a rattle drum and lied, "We can't even escape with our lives, how could there be any benefits? We went in five people, Zeng Lian was taken away by the lustful demon inside, and Wang Qiu is also unknown where he went. We're lucky to have escaped."

  "Pervert?" Song Ningwei asked in confusion.

  Tang Hao nodded and explained, "A demonic head that can induce human desires through spiritual temptation, as long as you can't hold on and fall into desire, it will forever only listen to one person's words. Fortunately, the White Gold City has some restrictions on his abilities, otherwise we would have become his puppets too."

  "Joke, how could there be such a perverted ability in this world." Song Ningwei said disbelievingly.

  "What the girl said is true, I once saw it in a miscellaneous book." A hoarse voice came from behind the main hall, and then an old man walked out from behind.

  "Father, how did you come?" Song Ningwei hurriedly ran over to support the old man, Lin Yundan stood still on the spot, bowed and called out: "Master is well."

  Tang Hao looked at the old man, surprisingly it was the person who took Lin Yun Dan away back then. Compared to before, his face was much paler, but his spirit was slightly better.

  The old man nodded to Lin Yundan, then looked at Tang Huan with a benevolent gaze and asked: "Little girl, what's the situation with that demon now?"

  Tang Hao said helplessly, "I'm afraid he's escaped. Zeng Lian accidentally released him and had his physical body seized by him. Although we managed to cut off one of her arms due to a fortunate coincidence, his divine sense is still not to be underestimated."

  The old man shook his head and said, "In that case, it will be even harder to find him. He must be hiding somewhere, waiting for an opportunity to seize a better body."

  Song Ningwei looked puzzled and asked: "Father, what is the origin of this lustful demon?"

  The old man sat in a chair in the great hall, took a sip of tea and said: "I also saw it in a miscellaneous note, it is said that thousands of years ago, there was a Taoist priest named Caihua Junzi who specialized in spiritual skills. It is said that anyone who mastered his techniques would inexplicably fall in love with him and be willing to do anything for him."

  Song Ningwei felt a chill in her heart after hearing this, and it was even more overbearing than her own seductive techniques.

  "So why did he appear now? Is he still not dead?" Song Congwei asked.

  The old man shook his head and said, "Legend has it that more than 9,000 years ago, the radiant Flower Picker suddenly abandoned her numerous admirers and disappeared without a word. Unexpectedly, she entered the Spiritual Immortal Pavilion."

  "If I'm not mistaken, a cultivator can only shed their mortal body once, so why is he able to switch bodies?" Song Ningwei seemed to have ten million whys.

  The old man's face showed a hint of clarity, "Because he is no longer a human cultivator, he has become a ghost cultivator, and that is not possession, but fusion of souls."

  Tang Hao had seen in some books that after a normal cultivator died, they must enter reincarnation. If they didn't enter reincarnation, their soul's origin would gradually disperse until it was completely scattered.

  But it is unknown who, yet established some ghost cultivator's techniques. Cultivating this technique can continuously absorb the soul origin from the outside world to strengthen oneself. When the absorbed soul origin is more than the dispersed soul origin, then this soul may become a ghost cultivator.

  Of course, Gui repair also has its limitations. First, the dispersion of the soul's origin is directly proportional to the time it takes to become a Gui repair, and as time goes on, more and more soul's origin needs to be supplemented to make up for the dispersion of the soul's origin.

  Secondly, in a state of pure soul, the dispersion of the soul's origin will double during the day, unless a physical body is found to serve as a shield against radiation.

  Thirdly, the physical Linggen also determines the speed of absorbing the soul's origin, but if you want to replace a physical body, it will also consume a large amount of soul's origin.

  Therefore, becoming a ghost cultivator is not desirable unless one can cultivate into a ghost immortal. Not only are there many weaknesses, but also after the soul disperses, even the opportunity for reincarnation is lost. In this situation, except for some people with heavy obsessions, very few people are willing to become ghost cultivators.

  Unlike soul fusion and body snatching, soul fusion not only takes over someone else's physical body but also occupies their soul.

  "What should we do then? What if that demon takes over our bodies, wouldn't that be worse than death?" Song Yingwei was not only a little afraid.

  The old man stroked his beard and smiled, "Don't be afraid of this, your body and soul are yours after all. As long as you don't let that lustful demon tempt you into willingly offering up your own body, no one can take away your spirit except for the Spirit Devourer."

  Song Ningwei nodded and pointed at Tang Hao and others, saying: "Then what about them?"

  The old man smiled: "It's rare for Yun Dan to be so stubborn. I won't go against her wishes, will I?"

  Song Ningwei's face stiffened, and Tang Hao and others even more so bore a grudge against Lin Yundan.

  The old man continued, "After all, they are the first batch of Qi-refining cultivators who can escape from Lingxian Pavilion. They must have their own strengths, and we cannot neglect talents. Let's re-examine them once more. Zhong Ying, you watch them complete a Class C mission. If they can complete it smoothly, let them in. Yundan, do you have any opinions?"

  Lin Yundan didn't know why, and hadn't said anything, but upon hearing the old man's words, she immediately came back to her senses and said: "Everything will be done according to Master's arrangements."

  The old man looked at Tang Hao and the others with a benevolent gaze, smiling as he said: "Opportunity is given to you, whether or not you can seize it depends on yourselves."

  Tang Hao and others hastily performed a courtesy, saying: "Thank you, Master Ancestor."

  The old man turned around and said: "Forget it, I'm old, I'm tired too, I'll go back first."

  Song Ningwei and Lin Yundan sent the old man back, while Tang Hao stayed in place, thinking about some things.

  Although he had heard that the Cultivation Realm was ruthless and treacherous, why did Tang Huang find that during this period of time, except for Zeng Lian and Wang Qiu, everyone else seemed to be quite decent, especially that old man who, as a Foundation Establishment cultivator, was actually so kind and courteous to them, mere Qi Refining cultivators.

  "Come with me." Zhong Ying said to the three of them.

  Tang Hao had also heard that new disciples usually needed to complete ten D-level tasks before they could do C-level tasks, but he didn't know what the difficulty of these C-level tasks was.

  Zhong Ying led the crowd into the sect's interior and stopped outside a pavilion.

  Zhong Ying smiled at the crowd: "You're really lucky, you've been favored by Master as soon as you entered. Now wait outside, I'll go get the task." After that, she went into the attic.

  There are people constantly coming in and out of this attic, but they all seem to be disciples of the Maple Sect. Apparently, they're all dissatisfied with their meager allowance and have come out to make some extra money on the side.

  The crowd of fellow disciples cast curious glances at the three unmarked disciples, but minding one's own business had always been a truth in the Cultivation Realm, so no one came to strike up a conversation.

  It's okay, Zhong Ying came out soon, Zhong Ying took out the jade slip in her hand and said: "This time we are going to the Silver River Star Domain."