Chapter 90 The Path of Ghost Cultivation
Her spirit floated light and gracefully in the air. Luo Xuanyi attempted to pass through the rocks and reach the ground without encountering any resistance. The dark clouds of thunder above the mountain peak began to gather around her as if they had captured her. Luo Xuanyi immediately returned to her body, but no thunder was heard for a long time.
After repeated attempts, Luo Xuanyi roughly figured out the range. As long as the distance from her body was kept within one mile, the Heavenly Dao would not notice it. Moreover, Luo Xuanyi could observe the surroundings through the eyes of her body, and she could even let her body continue to circulate in the meridians for cultivation.
She had a hunch that this distance would expand as her physical cultivation improved.
Thinking of the human furnace locking souls and refining pills, Luo Xuanyi suddenly had an idea and rummaged through the storage bag. She took out the fragments of the Yin-Yang Rain Body Technique that she had collected before and a volume of "Qilin Heart Sutra" left by an unknown disciple and tried to stuff them into the world for that disciple.
Hu Yi couldn't understand why he was in this strange world. The sky and earth were all gray, a thick fog shrouding everything. He tried to use his magical powers to break through, but his spiritual power was absorbed by the invisible boundary. Here, he couldn't tell the difference between day and night.
He was clearly dead, killed in a trap set by a powerful monk.
Could it be that this wonderful little world was created by that mysterious monk? In other words, all those things were just illusions, and he wasn't dead? Or did he have some other use for it?
These possibilities made Hu Yi clench his fists, further deepening his fear. To be able to create a small world governed by its own rules, and to place living beings within it, was something only a Spiritualization Stage cultivator could achieve. How could he, a cultivator who had painstakingly cultivated for three hundred years to reach the early Golden Core stage, resist such a being?
Just as his mood was torn between despair and a faint hope, a bright light suddenly appeared in the sky, as if a huge hand had parted the sky and was staring at him. Hu Yi felt his whole body stiffen, and then something hit him head-on.
Is this... a technique? The mental and physical skills are both of a kind I've never seen before, but why should he be given the resources to cultivate?
As if struck by a bolt of lightning, Hu Yi's hand, gripping the bamboo slips, began to tremble slightly. He quickly flipped through the contents of the technique again, a thought forming in his mind – could it be that this powerful being had taken a liking to him and wished to pass down his unique technique?
This guess was soon verified because Hu Yiyou saw a line of words in the sky: "The skill has been mastered and you can leave now."
Of course, all of this was done by Luo Xuanyi, but she hadn't expected Hu Yi to go so far as to imagine him passing on his skills. She simply wanted to see if she could extract more surplus value from Hu Yi before exhausting his lifespan, so she wrote him a blank check. Satisfied as Hu Yi began to sit down and study the bamboo slips, Luo Xuanyi realized something was amiss with her vision.
She could no longer see the light of spiritual energy fluctuations. Instead, she saw strange characters, which she had learned instinctively. In addition, black smoke, which had not been visible before, spread across the stone hall.
These were words from the ghost world, and the deathly aura invisible to human eyes. Written above her flesh was the lifespan of her locked soul: one hundred and twenty-six years, long enough for her body to glow a pure white light, forcing the deathly aura to evade her like an invisible barrier.
Death energy filled the air like the air itself, omnipresent and absurdly abundant. Perhaps the strangeness of this place, unnoticed by anyone, was due to the death energy? Luo Xuanyi took this into account and turned her attention to studying the ghost system given by the tower spirit.
The path of ghost cultivators is not bound by the laws of nature here, and therefore operates under a separate system. The realms are divided, starting from the weakest, into the six realms of Hungry Ghost, Resentful Ghost, Scarlet Ghost, Evil Ghost, Ghost Heart, and Ghost King, corresponding to the six realms of human cultivators starting from the Foundation Establishment stage. Therefore, even though Luo Xuanyi had just entered the ghost path, her strength had already surpassed that of a Qi Condensation cultivator, entering the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment stage, which is the early stage of the Hungry Ghost Realm.
Hunger, an unbearable hunger, not from a specific empty stomach, but from the faint crimson will-o'-the-wisp within her soul. The urge to devour the soul ran rampant within her mind, rapidly weakening Luo Xuanyi's already fragile human emotions. If it weren't for her childhood experience of long-term hunger, she would have long since given in to the reckless devouring.
Ghost cultivators absorb not spiritual energy but dead energy, also known as ghost energy. However, in this world, only spiritual energy is generated in cycles; dead energy can only be generated in places where large numbers of living beings have died or from the souls of living beings, and it cannot be produced endlessly. Therefore, Luo Xuanyi's only option is to find a place like Changlongpo to cultivate, or use Ronggui to transform spiritual energy, or at the very least, kill a large number of people and devour their souls.
But before that, she had to choose her own path as a ghost cultivator.
She took out the numerous stone tablets Yu Linghe had given her and began to study them. As time passed, her hunger grew stronger and her concentration nearly failed. She had no choice but to grab the remaining soul gold paper from thin air and bring it to her mouth, eating while she read. Finally, she picked out a set of heart techniques.
Its name is "The Art of All Evils Worshiping Ghosts", and just looking at the division of the skills is enough to make people feel overwhelmed - each realm has nine levels of corresponding mental methods, and there are also restrictions on breakthroughs. It is not that you can break through as long as you have reached a certain level of cultivation. This is the most unique of these skills.
The All Evils Attracting Ghosts technique requires ghost cultivators to not only absorb dead energy but also the evil thoughts of living beings. The stronger the evil thoughts of the living beings around the practitioner, the more power the ghost cultivator can draw from them, but this is not unlimited. Once the evil thoughts reach the opponent's limit, the All Evils Attracting Ghosts technique will transform them into ghost fire, swallowing them into its stomach to enhance its original power.
As one's realm increases, not only can one absorb the evil thoughts of living beings, but also the decaying fortunes of the living. Naturally, such power has its drawbacks. Besides the complexity of practicing the techniques, the source of evil thoughts is a headache enough. For example, even if one person has evil thoughts, finding them strong enough to power a ghost cultivator through a breakthrough is difficult. The evil thoughts of many people are far less powerful than those of a single, purely evil person, but how many pure evil people are there?
Moreover, ghost cultivators could have relied on staying away from the human world to cultivate, which, while slow, was safe enough. Once they chose to absorb the evil thoughts of others, the cultivators would discover it. This cultivation method was truly too evil. Luo Xuanyi could almost imagine the scene of all the cultivators uniting to strangle them after being discovered.
However, the All Evils Attack the Ghosts Technique was able to move Luo Xuanyi's heart even under such restrictive conditions, demonstrating its power. This was because it allowed the dead energy circulated during cultivation to directly strike the soul, while simultaneously allowing the practitioner's own thoughts to flow out from the wound in the soul. Of course, it couldn't instantly change the opponent's values, but as long as the opponent didn't notice, the wound in the soul would begin to erode the enemy from the root.
After weighing the pros and cons, Luo Xuanyi returned the other stone tablets to her storage bag and began studying the inner principles within the cave. Her body split open her palm, allowing the vast amount of spiritual fluid accumulated within her body to flow into Ronggui, where it was then transformed into death energy and absorbed by Luo Xuanyi.
First update~ My first worker Hu Yi is working overtime with me hh
Then here is one last reminder, sister Yi is not a good person~ You will know what will happen next after looking at the skills.
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