In the blink of an eye, Wang Yao and Qin Su arrived at the side of these ghosts who were lying prostrate on the ground. Wang Yao stopped "controlling the earth" and bent down to examine them. He was surprised to find that wisps of light blue smoke were emanating from these ghosts. However, the smoke was so faint that it could not be seen at all without close inspection.
He was familiar with this pale blue smoke. Before coming down, he had seen the same smoke in the alley next to the Grand Hotel, on the piles of corpses that appeared inexplicably in the golden light after Hui Shuo had been chanting sutras while striking the wooden fish. However, that smoke was much thicker than this one.
"Oh dear, he...they're from the Energy Bureau, I...I know him..." Qin Su's face was shrouded in black smoke as she pointed to a ghost lying on the ground and whispered.
Wang Yao looked at these ghosts lying there one by one. Judging from the exposed half of their faces, they seemed to be only slightly paler than ordinary ghosts, without any trace of blue. However, the expressions on their faces were all twisted in pain.
It's unclear whether they're suffering from mild corpse aura and have collapsed here, or if, as Qin Su said, they're in the later stages of corpse aura and are just waiting to die here.
To be honest, his trip to the underworld was quite an eye-opener for him. He had no idea that ghosts could die. Only after entering did he realize that a ghost is truly dead when it dies, and thus no longer enters the cycle of reincarnation. The six realms are thus missing a life form.
Wang Yao thought about how many ghost lives he had accumulated under his command, and felt that the principles of this world were quite bizarre.
Logically speaking, since immortals and mortals can reincarnate after death, it shouldn't be considered a big deal. However, both the immortal realm and the human realm take the death of immortals and mortals very seriously, and they would never mention fighting and killing unless absolutely necessary.
In fact, a ghost is truly annihilated when it dies, but it seems that apart from the ghost itself cherishing the death, even the underworld doesn't take the ghost's death seriously.
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