Chapter Thirty-Six: The Malevolent Spirit Banner

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  This vast land of tens of thousands of miles, shaped like a triangle, is all the territory of the Yin Family. Due to its location in the huge angle between the main mountain range and the Yin Family Mountain Range, it has been shrouded in gloomy winds for years. As a result, within the vast territory of the Yin Family, countless yin-yang lands have naturally formed.

  The shadow transformed into a flying bird emitting black light in the sky, sometimes hovering and sometimes rushing forward. However, Lei Dong was constantly matching the recognized earth veins with signs and maps one by one. After a long time, he finally put down the Shadow Flying Sword and landed outside a desolate and gloomy valley.

  In the completely controlled region of the Yin Family, there are a total of four major countries and seven small countries. Among them, all are under the indirect control of the Yin Family. This place is within the borders of a country called Hou Chen, which is at least 3,000 to 4,000 miles away from the main headquarters of the Wan Gui Cave. The reason for choosing this location is that it is far enough from the Wan Gui Cave, so even if something happens, it can be easily covered up. Secondly, Hou Chen has been continuously at war with neighboring countries in recent decades, and there have been dozens of major battlefields where more than 100,000 people have died. In addition, the domestic situation is chaotic, the common people are struggling to survive, and countless graves have been destroyed.

  This vast area is known as the land of Yin and Yang, it was originally a natural environment that easily forms Yin and Yang. In an area where many people die in a short period of time, the resentment is overwhelming, and with the right environment, it will often condense into the initial land of Yin and Yang. Of course, the reason why the environment is suitable also has something to do with the manipulation of the Yin and Yang sect behind the scenes.

  But all of this has nothing to do with Lei Dong. He is only here to reap the yin souls and raise the ling ghosts to sell for dan medicine.

  Summoned out the Bloodthirsty Ghost Soldier and Dark Shadow Ghost Soldier, both of which had reached the fifth level peak, they formed a formation with one light and one dark, one front and one back. The Bloodthirsty was naturally the main attacker, while the Dark Shadow followed closely beside Lei Dong's side to prevent any unexpected events. This hundred-mile-wide valley was once a bloody battlefield where over 200,000 people died. Even after decades had passed, countless half-buried and half-concealed armor and swords could still be seen in the valley, corroded with thousands of holes and rotten beyond recognition.

  As soon as he stepped into that range, he felt a wave of yin energy sweeping over his body, and the swirling yin wind howled continuously. His spirit couldn't help but tremble with fear, this was even more intense than the few civilian graves near the Wan Gui Kuang. However, at the same time, he also became more cautious, after all, this place had once been a great battlefield, and it was possible that stronger vengeful spirits might appear.

  At this point, Lei Dong had already reached the fifth level of cultivation. He had never given up on practicing the Cultivating Mind Technique, which made his current spiritual sense no less than that of a person in the 8th or 9th layer of Qi Refining. Holding his breath and concentrating his mind, he deployed the Divine Investigation Technique. He spread his spiritual sense forward as far as possible, fanning out to a distance of nearly a thousand meters. Although spreading his spiritual sense so thinly would greatly weaken its sensitivity, the disturbances caused by the wandering spirits could still cause ripples in his spiritual sense.

  So-called divine investigation is a relatively ordinary skill application of divine intention, and it doesn't even count as a spell. Simply put, it's using divine intention like radar to scan in all directions or a specific direction. In this way, within the range covered by divine intention, once there's any unusual movement, it will stir up a wave of ripples in the invisible divine intention.

  A cultivator who uses the Divine Sense Technique can judge what they have sensed based on the size, frequency and other characteristics of the ripples. However, the thinner the divine sense is spread out, the lower its sensitivity will be. From this it can be seen that this divine sense technique is just a common skill, not a magical technique. Lei Dong only spent a few contribution points to exchange for this extremely practical technique.

  Using divination to find out where the yin soul is located is far better than simply using oneself or a ghostly servant to search by chance.

  As expected, what delighted Leid was that within a range of nearly a thousand meters in front of him, there were seven or eight fluctuations, moving slowly and gently, with not too intense reactions. If he had continued walking in a straight line as before, at most he would have encountered one or two.

  This kind of fluctuation reaction, of course, cannot be a small animal, any flesh and blood creature, unless it is a very powerful one. In this environment where evil spirits are everywhere, it is simply impossible to survive.

  To save mental energy, a rough route was set and memorized before withdrawing his attention. He drove the ghostly soldiers to rush towards the nearest fluctuation point. As expected, they soon saw a soul wandering around without noticing anyone's arrival. Without hesitation, the bloodthirsty ghostly soldier stepped forward and lightly slashed it with a knife. When the soul was hit and drifted away, the ghostly soldier immediately activated its technique and easily captured it into the Soul Tower. Of course, even if the ghostly soldier didn't injure this soul, it could still capture it directly with its current strength. However, capturing an uninjured soul would result in a more intense struggle, which would cause the ghostly soldier to waste a lot of energy.

  In order to conserve true energy, it's better to let the bloodthirsty ghost soldier lightly wound him instead.

  Right after that, Ma rushed towards another fluctuation point. Along the way, he took a look at the Yin Soul's quality and as expected, it was just an inferior ghost. Using the same method, he collected all seven Yin Souls one by one, taking only a few minutes in total. With such collection efficiency and speed, Lei Dong couldn't help but laugh. This was already far beyond his efficiency when he was at the second layer of Qi Refining.

  The true energy consumed in the body is not much, and Lei Dong has once again used his divine investigation technique to scan around. This time, he only discovered five fluctuations, but one of them reacted several times more violently. It made Lei Dong let out a sigh, confirming that it was just a wild ghost soldier. As expected, when they arrived at the location of the fluctuation, they found that it was indeed a first-level wild ghost soldier. Its value is not great, but it can still attract some attention from the bloodthirsty ghost soldiers.

  It was like this, and the night passed. Unexpectedly, more than 500 yin souls were swept away, and a single wild ghost died. After dawn broke, he left the valley, flew his sword tens of miles, and arrived at a small mortal city in the back of Chen Guo, where he stayed in an inn courtyard. Taking the Cong Qi Dan to meditate and recover his energy, refining the soul pearl was not necessary to mention again.

  Every night, he rode his sword for dozens of miles and arrived at this gloomy valley. Every night, the best luck could catch 700 or 800, and the worst luck could also get 400 or 500. After ten days, he left this gloomy valley and moved to another place hundreds of miles away, called Ghost Whistling River Beach, a treacherous land.

  Ten days later, continue to change another place. For a hundred and twenty days in a row, I have been to more than a dozen famous but not too cruel places of Yin Sha. While making Lei Dong somewhat exhausted, it is also delightful that the jade bottle in the storage waistband has increased by 142 soul beads. The number of Yin Shuai caught with his own hands has already exceeded 80,000.

  The luck was generally poor, even slightly worse. Among the more than 800,000 yin souls, there were only six low-grade ling ghosts. This made Lei Dong feel that he might have been affected by the Inverse Treasure, and his luck in capturing yin souls to obtain ling ghosts had always been poor. However, he did encounter a dozen or so wild ghost soldiers, one of which was as high as level 5. But under the circumstances of three ghosts working together, that level 5 wild ghost soldier was cleanly divided up.

  After calculating, the time is almost up. In two more months, it will be a new term of small comparison, and we must hurry to refine the medium-grade spirit ghost to sell and exchange for the earth spirit pill. Otherwise, before the next small comparison, it may be difficult to break through to the sixth layer.

  The sky was getting brighter, and the dark spirits had all shrunk back to who-knows-where. Just as Lei Dong was about to prepare his sword to fly away, three colored lights appeared from a few hundred meters away, and in just over ten breaths, they landed right in front of him. The first one was a short, ugly young man with a nose that pointed upwards, wearing black clothes. From the style of the black clothes, it should be the uniform of the third generation disciples of the Yin Xie Sect. But judging from the subtle black light flowing around his body, this robe shouldn't be ordinary. Especially on his feet, he wasn't stepping on any ordinary flying sword or flight device, but a cluster of unpredictable black fog. The black fog twisted and turned, revealing faces of cruelty, resentment, fear, and madness, as if they wanted to struggle out. But in the blink of an eye, it distorted and transformed back into black fog.

  Evil spirit flag! Lei Dong's heart suddenly felt a chill, and he recognized this treasure.

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