Chapter Twenty: The Middle-Ranking Spirit Ghost

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  In the blink of an eye, half a year's time has passed.

  On this day, as Lei Dong sucked dry the second Ling Stone, the Xuan Yin True Energy that had been continuously cultivated finally reached the peak state of the first layer of the Refining Qi stage. With a thought in mind, feeling that the state was not bad, Lei Dong took advantage of the momentum and directly ran the true energy downwards, circling and winding for some time in the first acupoint before advancing to the next one. Having had an experience of breaking through the passageway once, Lei Dong was neither anxious nor impatient, carefully guarding his heart and slowly nourishing that acupoint.

  Time passed bit by bit, and after three whole days. Lei Dong broke through the shackles once again, and in one fell swoop, he burst into the second layer of the Refining Qi stage. A refreshing feeling poured down from the top of his head, following the texture of his skin, and stroking his bones. The sensation was as if he were floating on cloud nine, so comfortable. One wave after another, for over a dozen times, and who knows how much time had passed, before it finally stopped.

  He slowly opened his eyes, and although they were somewhat tired, they were full of vitality. Lei Dong slightly wrinkled his nose, and a familiar fishy smell wafted up, making him smile. It was clear that after advancing to the second layer of the Refining Qi stage, he had undergone another thorough transformation. Cultivating the truth was just such a process of constantly refining oneself, taking steps towards immortality, and gradually evolving. However, Lei Dong also knew that this was a road full of thorns and obstacles, where every step forward required great effort, even luck.

  As usual, it was a bath and dinner. Only then did he contact Chen Gong, Wei Hua, and before this closed meeting, Lei Dong had informed them that he might try to impact the second layer of Qi Refining Stage.

  In a short while, Chen Wei and the others came in with big smiles on their faces, congratulating Lei Dong profusely. At this time, Chen Ge had already successfully broken through to the second layer of Qi Refining two months ago. As for Wei Hua, he was still at the peak of the first layer, and could advance at any moment. After a brief gathering, the three of them bid each other farewell.

  A few days later, Leidong reappeared near the long-lost Luozanggang.

  But this time, it's completely different from half a year ago. Not only has Leidong's cultivation reached the second layer of the Refining Qi period, but his strength has also increased significantly, and he is wearing a pair of mid-grade artifact boots called Cloud-Stepping Boots. These Cloud-Stepping Boots are indeed very useful artifacts. When worn, they allow for swift and agile movement, as if one were walking on clouds and treading on mist, leaving no trace behind.

  Originally, with Leidong's current cultivation level, his speed was already quite impressive, almost as light as a swallow and as fast as a galloping horse. However, after equipping the Cloud-Ascending Boots, his speed increased by nearly twice or more. Perhaps even those who have cultivated to the fourth or fifth layer of Qi Refining would not be able to catch up with him. After entering the sect for over a year and experiencing many things, Leidong had come to understand that cultivating the truth was not just about increasing one's strength. The most important thing was to survive first; otherwise, even if one's cultivation level was high, death would render everything meaningless.

  Being able to run fast is a huge advantage. After witnessing the strength of Gui Zhuang, Lei Dong made up his mind to play summoning spells, with minions in front to take the hit and himself hiding behind playing tricks. The most important thing is to not let the enemy get close to him. At least when he can't defeat the opponent, he still has a chance to escape. It seems that Wan Gui Lao Zu gave himself a pair of Cloud Stepping Boots instead of an attacking artifact, which should also be well thought out. After all, Wan Gui Lao Zu is also from the Ghost Master Sect and is very skilled in this aspect.

  In addition, the ghost soldier who had made great contributions several times was also a great help in capturing the dark soul this time. After he was summoned from the Soul Nurturing Tower, the ghost soldier's body had condensed even more, and it was obviously much different from before Leidong's big closed door. Although this Soul Nurturing Tower is just an entry-level thing, it can still nourish the spirit ghost to some extent, slowly letting it grow.

  After devouring several batches of flesh and blood, as well as being nourished by the Soul Nourishing Tower for nearly half a year, this ghost soldier had already reached the middle tier of a first-class ghost soldier. Of course, it was mostly due to the effect of those devoured flesh and blood that contributed to its growth, while the entry-level Soul Nourishing Tower's nourishment could only be described as mediocre. Once his financial situation improved slightly, he would have to consider acquiring a better Soul Nourishing Tower, which would allow his ghost soldier to accelerate its growth speed.

  It was late at night, with a gloomy wind blowing everywhere and the sound of ghosts wailing continuously. Leidong stepped on the cloud boots, driving the ghost soldiers to clear the way in front. At first, they patrolled around the periphery, only catching two scattered yin souls. But now, Leidong no longer needed to catch two or three linggui every time,

  It's time to head back and rest.

  Not to mention, he was already a cultivator with over a hundred spiritual energy. Before this, Lei Dong had exchanged for ten bottles of Qi Condensing Pills. Unlike the Small Spirit Pill that helped increase cultivation, the effect of the Qi Condensing Pill was limited to speeding up the recovery of true energy. However, in the process of capturing a large number of dark souls, carrying a large amount of Qi Condensing Pills showed its effect.

  Every time a dark soul is captured, there's no need to use any magical tools. Instead, the ghost guard takes action, striking the dark soul until it's half condensed and half scattered. Only then does Lei Dong activate his magic seal, forcibly drawing it into the Soul Nurturing Tower. After consuming three or four tenths of his true energy, another Condensing Energy Pill is used, and by the time he finds the next dark soul, his true energy has almost fully recovered.

  This has formed a virtuous circle. Basically, except for finding gaps in the yin souls, Lei Dong's capture of yin souls has almost no waste of time. Gradually, his courage has also increased. He went deeper into the depths of the chaotic burial grounds, and the more he was in the central position, the denser the yin souls became. In the end, occasionally, he could encounter two at once. But even if it were two, for Lei Dong, it was not too threatening. Just let the ghost soldiers take action, injure the yin souls, and easily put them into the bag.

  One night of hard work, until the sky was bright, and the harvest was over a hundred. Returned to Wan Gui City to rest and checked it out conveniently, unfortunately, no half ghost was found from this. Fortunately, Lei Dong had already been prepared in his heart, knowing that ghosts were not so easy to capture. Even if one night could catch hundreds, the probability of getting a ghost would be only about 1%.

  For thirty days, the total number of yin souls caught by Leidong in Luozanggang had reached nearly four thousand, but still no pure spiritual ghost was found. Fortunately, Leidong had the Soul Devouring Tower in hand, and his desire to catch a spiritual ghost directly was not too strong. Through the Soul Devouring Tower's devouring of those inferior ghosts, the soul pearls condensed one by one, and he obtained as many as ten grains.

  Apart from using two Soul Pearls to nurture and create two low-grade Ling Ghosts, the remaining eight were all used to nurture the Ghost Soldiers. The reason why Leidong was willing to do this was because every time a Ghost Soldier was fed a Soul Pearl, it seemed to enter a state of transformation. Although the effect of each transformation was far from being as exaggerated as the first time when they directly transformed from inferior ghosts to Ling Ghosts.

  However, every time the ghostly soldier transformed, after being illuminated by the Linggui Identification Technique, a hint of golden yellow deep within its body seemed to become even more intense. This gave Leidong great hope, and after swallowing a total of eight soul pearls, the intensity of the golden yellow within the ghostly soldier's body had already increased to three or four times its original amount. It was as if it were similar to the mid-grade spirit ghost recorded in the Yuguang Ghost Manual.

  This is the powerful driving force that has been continuously capturing the vengeful spirits in the chaotic burial mound for over a month.

  In the blink of an eye, seven or eight days had passed. The vengeful spirits wandering in the burial mound seemed to be dwindling. Fortunately, two more soul beads were barely gathered and fed to the ghost soldier. The ghost soldier finally underwent a drastic change, violently trembling before re-condensing into a ball. It took three or four days for it to stretch out its body again. However, at this point, the ghost soldier had some differences from before. After using the Spirit Ghost Appraisal Technique, I was delighted to discover that the ghost soldier's quality had fully reached the mid-grade spirit ghost level.

  Even if he had expected it in his heart, but when he really saw the ghostly soldier evolve into a medium-grade spirit ghost, confirming what he thought in his heart. Lei Dong was almost unable to hold back his wild joy, as for more than a year since entering the sect, he had searched for many records about the spiritual ghost's ranking problem. There has never been any record of how to make the spirit ghost change from low-grade to medium-grade in any article.

  In fact, Leidong also knows that the spiritual roots of humans cannot be improved, and the quality of spirits is equally impossible to change. Otherwise, such a powerful ghost-control technique would have become the most advanced trend in magic. If it were possible to upgrade the quality of spirits, one can imagine how many top-quality spirits, or even heavenly spirits, could be created with the power of the Yīnxīng Sect?

  Each Yin Xie Zong disciple only needs to cultivate more divine techniques, strengthen their mental power. Just equip a few more top-grade or extreme-grade spirit ghosts. It's already enough to make the Yin Xie Sect the number one sect, with an extremely high possibility of unifying the world.

  His hand trembled slightly as he stroked the mysterious Soul Devouring Tower, which looked ordinary on the outside but had brought him a miracle. With the Soul Pearl able to upgrade low-grade spirit ghosts to mid-grade ones, Lei Dong now knew that his fate had truly changed forever.

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