Chapter 21: The Wild Ghost's Demise

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  Of course, the strength of a top-notch or heavenly spirit does not lie in how powerful it is itself. It's just that ordinary spirits want to cultivate and upgrade, but it's not an easy thing to do. Not only must they have a very good soul tower, but also from time to time hunt and supplement with demon beast flesh and blood for them to swallow and absorb. If the spirit encounters a bottleneck during the upgrading process, it is necessary to spend precious blood on it again, re-blood sacrifice, hoping that it can break through and become stronger.

  It can be said that ordinary people who raise low-grade spirit ghosts need to spend a lot of time and energy, as well as their own blood, to cultivate them. If they raise two or even three, almost all of their energy and time must be spent on these spirit ghosts. As a result, the ghost soldiers that are cultivated from these spirit ghosts can become extremely powerful magic if their levels can keep up. However, for most people who practice the Ghost Control Technique, raising too many low-grade spirit ghosts will severely hinder their progress in cultivation. But high-grade spirit ghosts are completely different. With just a little nourishment from a good soul tower or casually devouring some demon beasts' flesh and blood, they can quickly advance, without needing their master to spend a lot of time cultivating them. Moreover, the biggest advantage is that high-grade spirit ghosts can quickly surpass their original masters, and the probability of encountering bottlenecks and not advancing for a long time is extremely low.

  As a result, if there is an extremely high-quality Linggui. Leidong can easily obtain a ghost soldier that is several levels more powerful than himself. For example, Leidong is currently at the second level of Lianqi, and with a little effort, the high-quality Linggui-refined ghost will quickly be promoted to the fifth or sixth level. In this case, Leidong's combat power will naturally be astonishing.

  The lower-grade spirit, although it can also continuously upgrade, however, each time its upgrade is more difficult and prone to encountering bottlenecks. If not willing to spend too much thought on cultivation, the lower-grade spirit may fall far behind the master's upgrading speed. Over time, the spirit's role becomes smaller and smaller.

  It is also for this reason that having an excellent Ling Gui, or even a Tian Ling Gui, will bring oneself an extremely powerful assistance without requiring too much effort.

  Although it is unknown what kind of existence the top-notch spirit ghost under Wan Gui Lao Zu has become now, one thing can be imagined: its individual combat strength and level are likely to far surpass that of Wan Gui Lao Zu himself.

  However, the Leidong's Soul-Devouring Spire was an exception. After absorbing a large number of yin souls and condensing them into soul beads, not only could it create low-grade spirit ghosts, but also allow low-grade spirit ghosts to be promoted to mid-grade. The only problem was that promoting to mid-grade required ten soul beads, heaven knows how many would be needed to promote from mid-grade to high-grade. A hundred? Or a thousand? But Leidong didn't dare try, after all, whether it was a thousand or a hundred, it was far beyond what Leidong could gather in a short period of time.

  After all, it takes a whole month to produce about ten soul beads. That's why this time, letting the ghost soldier upgrade to mid-grade is already very satisfying for Leidong. After all, his own qualifications are not too strong, and the quality of the ghost soldier has reached mid-grade, even if it is placed in the Soul Tower, it will not fall behind his own realm by too much. Of course, the premise is that there must be a relatively good Soul Tower.

  With a determined mind, Lei Dong decided to continue staying in Wangu City to capture yin souls and refine soul pearls. He would then use the soul pearls to summon another mid-grade ling gui to sell. The probability of encountering a mid-grade ling gui was much lower than that of a low-grade one - by at least a hundred times. According to the records in the Yu Gui Jue, the proportion of mid-grade ling guis appearing was as low as one in a million. In other words, if he were just averagely lucky, he would need to go through hundreds of thousands of yin souls before possibly encountering a single mid-grade ling gui.

  It can be seen that the value of a medium-grade spirit ghost is at least around 100 times that of a low-grade spirit ghost. As for high-grade spirit ghosts, they are completely priceless goods. Whenever one with extremely good luck appears on the market, it will often attract countless cultivators who practice the Ghost Controlling Technique, and then be auctioned off at an astronomical price.

  But the greatest advantage of Leidong is that with a bit of good luck, it only takes about a month to cultivate a mid-grade spirit ghost, whose price is absolutely above that of a thousand spirits. Once you have a thousand spirits, buying a few more soul towers becomes much easier.

  Day after day, when the vengeful spirits in a certain burial ground became scarce. Lei Dong would quickly move to another location. Fortunately, there were countless gathering places for ordinary vengeful spirits like this one within hundreds of miles around the entire Wan Gui City. Counting the entire Yin Xiao Sect's range, it was even more uncountable. However, Lei Dong only dared to go to those malignant sites that had taken shape for less than a hundred years. With his current cultivation, if he went to those famous and powerful malignant sites, he would likely encounter much stronger wild ghost soldiers or even wild ghost guards. It would be far from worth it, and losing his life there was also possible.

  Time is the greatest power. Even those useless inferior ghosts, if they wander in the dark and gloomy place for a very long time, hunting, surviving, will slowly evolve into ghost soldiers, devouring flesh and blood, and even other yin souls. As time goes by, such as hundreds of years, thousands of years, they will also become relatively powerful. It's just that their growth rate is far inferior to that of the spirit ghosts.

  But the most terrifying are those spirits that have survived for years and evolved into ghostly soldiers on their own. Even if they are not artificially cultivated, as long as they have good luck and suitable conditions, these ghostly soldiers will grow to a very frightening degree. With his current cultivation at the second layer of Qi Refining, he really doesn't dare to run around recklessly. He can only go to those chaotic burial grounds that are only a few decades old.

  After all, the Yin Jue Sect is an evil sect that deliberately cultivates and even intentionally forms semi-artificial burial mounds in yin-yang locations to facilitate the formation of yin souls, providing endless resources for the sect. In addition, it can also provide a place for novice disciples to practice.

  Because even within the range of the Maneki-Ne, there are at least hundreds of similar burial mounds. In a short period of time, it's not like he'll be lacking in inferior ghosts as a source. Moreover, he doesn't have to worry about the place he goes to, because if the number of inferior ghosts decreases drastically, people will become suspicious. After all, first of all, inferior ghosts are worthless and almost no one pays attention to them. Secondly, there aren't many people who would catch an inferior ghost and then release it again. At least inferior ghosts have a few minor uses, with the most common being as food for vengeful spirits or as a material for refining the Maneki-Ne banner.

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  Bang!

  As a loud explosion sounded, a crater with a diameter of several meters was blasted out under Leidong's feet. Fortunately, before the thunderbolt fell, Leidong had already jumped away in an instant, relying on his cultivation at the second level of Lianqi and the Cloud-Stepping Boots. However, even so, when Leidong glanced at the crater, he was still frightened out of a cold sweat, and his face turned somewhat pale.

  The bloodthirsty ghost soldier let out a shrill cry, raised his shield and slapped away the secondary wild ghost soldier that had almost harmed its master. The knife aura flashed, the dark wind whirled, and it desperately entwined itself with it.

  At first, when Lei Dong found this second-level wild ghost general, he was overjoyed. He controlled the bloodthirsty ghost general to fight it, while hiding behind and shooting with his dark green sword. However, what he did not expect was that this wild ghost general actually possessed the astonishing heavenly skill of "Slaughter Thunder", almost killing Lei Dong who had let his guard down with a single strike of Slaughter Thunder.

  Looking at the second-level wild ghost soldier who was forced to retreat repeatedly by the bloodthirsty ghost soldier, Lei Dong's face also showed a hint of regret. A wild ghost soldier with such innate magical abilities should have evolved from a spirit ghost. However, once a spirit ghost has evolved into a ghost soldier on its own, although it can still capture and cultivate souls in the Soul Tower, it cannot be used as a blood sacrifice ghost servant through the Ghost Controlling Technique.

  However, it's not that these wild ghost soldiers are completely useless. The Yin Sha Sect has another technique for controlling ghosts, which is to collect these lone souls and wild ghosts and refine them into a million-ghost banner. When refined to the strongest level, during battle with an enemy, a million ghosts will emerge at once, with a mighty and powerful momentum. However, because the wild ghost soldiers have already evolved spiritual intelligence, they must be refined first to erase their spiritual intelligence, leaving only their instincts. As a result, the ghost soldiers in the million-ghost banner are far inferior to those of the blood sacrifice in terms of combat power. Moreover, even if the ghosts used to refine the million-ghost banner were from the Tian Ling Sect, they would hardly have any chance to advance again.

  This is the reason why Leidong was pitied. To possess a Blood Sacrifice Ghost, one must refine and merge with it while the spirit is still in a state of yin soul and before its spiritual awareness has opened up. However, this wild ghost soldier, although unable to be subdued as a younger brother, is also an excellent supplement for the bloodthirsty ghost soldiers. After calming down, Leidong immediately carefully manipulated the dark green small sword, transforming it into a green light that fiercely stabbed towards the wild ghost soldier's body.

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