Chapter Eighty-four: The Ghostly White Bone Flag?

  For the cultivators of the world, having one's soul scattered and body destroyed is undoubtedly terrifying. Of course, only those who are spoiled and pampered from famous sects would think this way. If a cultivator who has experienced the Great War between Dao and Demons were to answer this question, their response would surely make those disciples from famous sects pale with fear.

  It's common knowledge that demonic cultivators can't refine magical treasures, and all their magical treasures are plundered from the orthodox sects. However, since the heavens are fair, there must be gains to balance out the losses. In the past, when demonic cultivators were exploring alternative paths, they eventually found a method through persistent efforts. Although this method is extremely unorthodox and would incur heaven's wrath and public outrage, demons are indeed demons, and fortunately, they don't have many scruples.

  As the Orthodox Cultivators continued to develop and refine more powerful magical artifacts, the Demonic Cultivators also began to use their newfound methods to attempt similar feats. As a result, magical artifacts like the Soul-Calling Banner of the Blood Sea Demon gradually emerged, and for a time, the demonic path's research on souls reached an unprecedented height. Almost all Demonic Cultivators with some background began to refine this type of artifact. This period in the history books of mortals in the Demonic Cultivation Star Domain was known as the Era of No Birth. It is said that many mortal nations disappeared, and the number of mortals decreased daily. Almost everyone who lived during this era died once. Fortunately, the Heavenly Demon Palace later saw the severe consequences of such actions and issued a timely ban on this behavior. Otherwise, it's hard to say whether so many demonic cultivation sects could have continued to be passed down.

  During this period, the magic treasures refined from the grievances of countless people were undoubtedly extremely powerful. The demon cultivators who had tasted the sweetness would not stop at this point, after all, human greed is the most terrifying. So their demonic claws slowly stretched towards the star domain controlled by the Holy Alliance, and the reputation of the demon path's cruelty and ruthlessness also spread throughout the cultivation world at this time. At that time, these demons also discovered that the magic treasures refined from the cultivators' yuan babies seemed to be much more powerful, so more demons participated in this lineup. For a time, the entire cultivation world was dark and chaotic, with battles happening every moment. It continued until the Holy Alliance reached an agreement with the Tianmo Palace. During that period, countless masters fell, and the innate enmity between the righteous and demonic paths began at that time. The evil magic treasures of the demon cultivators were also despised by the righteous people. Sun Ming had a more extreme view on this matter, when he was still in the Qilingshan sect, he saw the records of these events in the classics and was filled with indignation, and had an urge to kill his way into the demonic star domain. Fortunately, at that time, it was just a youthful impulse, now even Sun Ming himself would think it's ridiculous if he thought about it. But Sun Ming is indeed furious now. After all, the scene in front of him was too cruel, and too infuriating.

  At a glance, there were no less than hundreds of Yuanying floating on the law platform in this cave, and it was not enough to make Sun Ming angry. What made Sun Ming even more angry was that these Yuanyings were all surrounded by clusters of very beautiful spiritual fire, obviously intentionally done, because if they wanted to refine them with a single spell, these Yuanyings would probably return to nothingness. But what's infuriating is that the Yuanyings have been placed on the spiritual fire for so long, and the pain they had to endure was imaginable, and the ghostly wailing sounds were also transmitted from them.

  "How is the way? And what about the demon? The younger generation is still bound by the rules and frameworks of the cultivation world. No wonder the quality of alchemists in the cultivation world has been declining so rapidly." Lan Ying replied nonchalantly, as if she was burning trivial insects instead of a primordial infant. "It seems that Master Lan Ying's prediction is indeed accurate." Xue Hai Old Demon said with a smile.

  "Hey, kiddo, let me tell you, these yuan infants are just a part of what we're using, the amount of yuan infants this treasure needs to consume is far more than what you see before your eyes, haha." The Blood Sea Demon said with a chuckle, pointing at a half-finished treasure for Sun Ming to see.

  A similar soul-calling banner-like treasure was hanging there, and its entire body seemed to be refined from white bones. The body was floating vaguely, with many black dots densely packed on it. These black dots were slowly moving, just like a black snake slowly crawling on it, making Sun Ming feel nauseous. At this time, Lan Yue Zhenren, who was concentrating on controlling hundreds of spiritual fires, moved. He was single-handedly casting spells to maintain the spiritual fire's ability to continue ravaging those primordial infants, while gesturing to Xue Hai Lao Mo to give him something.

  And the Blood Sea Demon seemed to be waiting for this moment, seeing Lan You's movement, he immediately took out a few things from his storage treasure, Sun Mingding looked at it and found that they were blood spirits.

  Isn't this thing used to supplement the Qi and blood of a cultivator? How can Lanyin Old Dao use it to refine equipment? Although Sun Ming didn't show any movement on the surface, he was actually very confused in his heart. After all, strictly speaking, the Blood Spirit Essence is just a kind of elixir, and it's even a forbidden medicine. If not handled properly, it might cause one's soul to scatter.

  Lan Ying took the blood spirits from Xue Hai Lao Mo and began to refine them with a wisp of spiritual fire. Sun Ming's heart couldn't help but feel sorrow as he watched, thinking that the lives of hundreds of thousands of people were being spent on just a few blood spirits. What was the point of cultivating if one ended up like him, a prisoner? Those hundreds of Yuanying who couldn't even die were truly pitiful. Alas, under the saints, all are but ants. The world of cultivation was so treacherous, how could the longed-for Immortal Realm and Devil Realm be any better? Sun Ming laughed at himself in self-mockery.

  This old man is also a master-level figure. Refining these blood spirits is just a matter of time. Just as Sun Mingyuan thought it would take a short while, he had already refined the blood spirits exchanged for the lives of tens of thousands of people into a cluster of red and purple **.

  At this time, Lan Ying's face changed. The hand seal was changing rapidly. Suddenly, that one lump was cut open in the air with a hard slash. A drop of uniform size flew quickly towards each of the primordial infants who were screaming and tearing apart.

  These were like magical elixirs. As soon as they came into contact with the primordial infants, the heart-wrenching and ear-piercing wails suddenly stopped.

  "What do they want to do?" Sun Ming asked himself in his heart. But he couldn't find the answer. After all, this was the first time he had seen such a strange thing. Someone had actually used other materials on the yuan fetus. As everyone knew, there were only three materials that could be used on the yuan fetus: the sea soul jade, the lingxin crystal, and the dinghun jade. Apart from these three things, Sun Ming hadn't seen anything else in the classics that could directly affect the yuan fetus. It seemed that the saying "it's better to have no books than to believe everything in them" was also applicable in the cultivation world. Classics were indeed not something to be trusted completely.

  But what happened next left Sun Ming bewildered. The aura emitted by the Yuanyings that had been dripped with the Blood Spirit's essence was slowly changing. How to put it... Hollow. Dark. It seemed as if all negative emotions were concentrated in these Yuanyings.

  Sun Ming shook his head, rubbed his eyes, and looked at the hundreds of yuan infants in front of him with an incredulous expression.

  The aura on the Yuanying bodies that were originally standing there underwent an unbelievable change. These Yuanyings originally had both Dao and magic, male and female, and the auras they emitted were all shared by cultivators. However, Sun Ming suddenly felt a hint of ghostly energy from one of the Yuanyings that was changing faster than the others. Before he could even ask a question, that fast-changing Yuanying transformed into a Ghost King-level ghost object right before his eyes. Sun Ming knew this point of knowledge from his extensive reading: ghosts and cultivators were different. Normally, people wouldn't become ghosts after death; only those who died in abnormal circumstances would become ghosts. Ghosts couldn't enter the underworld or participate in reincarnation. Ordinary ghosts couldn't cultivate, but fierce ghosts could start to absorb dark energy between heaven and earth to cultivate. Of course, these fierce ghosts were weak in terms of attack power - they might be a nightmare for ordinary people, but for cultivators, they weren't anything significant. Only Ghost Generals or higher-level ghost objects could pose a threat to cultivators. These ghost objects generally had some strange skills that made it difficult for cultivators of the same level to deal with them; if they weren't careful, they might even capsize in the gutter.

  Judging the level of a ghost by its eyes is undoubtedly the best method. A fierce ghost has red eyes, a ghost general has blue eyes, a ghost king has purple eyes, and a ghost emperor has green eyes. The ghost in front of Sun Ming, with its blinking purple eyes, was undoubtedly at the ghost king level, and it was even a female ghost. Its pair of charming eyes were staring at Sun Ming, but Sun Ming only cared about the ghost's level, and accidentally fell under its spell.

  "Embracing the origin, guarding the one, the heart has no worries." Yun's voice was timely in Sun Ming's mind, and Sun Ming looked at the long-haired female ghost in front of him, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. And that female ghost, seeing that she couldn't tempt Sun Ming, became enraged and a large tongue suddenly darted towards Sun Ming.

  "Even as a ghost, you're still so restless." Just in time, the Blood Sea Demon stopped him from coming down, otherwise Sun Ming would have been in big trouble. After seeing the hundreds of Yuanying successfully transform into ghost objects, Lan Ying Zhenren waved his hand and the Soul Summoning Banner flew into his hands. With a casual wave, the group of ghost objects that would be a nightmare on a lower-level cultivation planet all transformed into black dots and flew into the banner's body. Sun Ming was shocked - the hundreds of Yuanying-turned ghost objects only increased the length of the black snake on the banner by an inch or two. How many cultivators have these two lunatics harmed?