"… Gold … Gold Phoenix Bell …" the umbrella girl stammered, not daring to look at Lu Sheng with her eyes lowered.
"What does it do?"
"Summon … summon ghostly subordinates …"
"Alright, what about this?" Lu Sheng picked up the second item, the rectangular sandalwood box.
"Eternal … Grass …"
"What does it do?"
"Sister's formation … core …"
Another useless item. Lu Sheng frowned, put it down, and picked up the third item.
This time, the umbrella girl answered without waiting for him to ask.
"This … is the treasure map … left behind … by the Headless Ghost King."
"Headless Ghost King?" Lu Sheng had never heard of this name before. It was probably famous among ghosts, but not among mortals.
He questioned the umbrella girl in detail for a long time before he finally understood what kind of person this Headless Ghost King was.
It was said that a thousand years ago, the Northern Lands were still a wasteland of ice and snow. Only a handful of fishermen and hunters could live here.
They met an extremely mysterious primitive tribe here. This tribe also fished and hunted for a living.
In the course of their interaction, they discovered that this tribe worshipped a strange, colorful headless statue. The tribe called it Dong Lian, and worshipped and offered incense to it.
Slowly, the newly migrated people also began to worship this Dong Lian deity.
Until a Noble Family arrived and discovered that the entire Northern Lands worshipped this Dong Lian deity. They investigated in secret, and it was said that a huge conflict broke out.
In the end, all the worshippers of the Dong Lian deity were killed. Only a few treasure maps were left.
No one knew the specifics.
"Sounds like an evil god." Lu Sheng put down the treasure map. What annoyed him the most were these valuable but unobtainable items. He would leave them here for now, and trade them to whoever wanted them in the future.
He did not mind that he could not use any of the three items. Just the Yin Qi he absorbed this time was enough for him to recoup his losses.
After slaughtering at least a hundred ghosts in Scarlet District, his current Yin Qi was almost the same as when he absorbed that weird piece of metal — at least fifty units. This was his biggest gain.
Secondly, he had caught the umbrella girl as a test subject. Coincidentally, he was very interested in these so-called ghosts. It was rare to find one that he could communicate with and threaten, so he could ask them about their habits in detail.
Under Lu Sheng's threats and temptations, the umbrella girl stuttered and sobbed as she answered each of his questions.
After spending more than four hours, Lu Sheng finally figured out where the so-called ghosts came from.
Resentment.
The resentment and hatred in the world were the seedlings formed by the spirits.
Before death, there was a strong hatred, and there was a chance that they would become a weak ghost. Yin spirits grow by absorbing people's fear. The more fear they have, the stronger they become. In the end, when they reached a certain level of strength, they would become ghosts.
After becoming a Ghost, one would have a corporeal body and could come into contact with things. They would be able to devour each other, devour other people's essence blood, and absorb even more terror. Ghosts would gradually become stronger as they grew older, and they would eventually have the opportunity to become freaks.
However, this was only the growth and changes of the umbrella girl and the ghosts she had seen. In reality, there were many other things that could cause a ghost to mutate. All kinds of Anomalies came about because of this.
As for these changes, the umbrella girl herself could not explain the reason for them. She was an Anomaly, but she had no idea why she had become one.
Then, Lu Sheng asked about her sister, Scarlet District Mistress. At the mention of Scarlet District Mistress, the umbrella girl shut her mouth decisively and refused to say a word. Compared to before, she appeared much more courageous.
Lu Sheng did not press the issue. After asking what he wanted to know, he reached out a hand and pressed it lightly on the umbrella girl's forehead.
"Tell me honestly what you're feeling." After instructing her, he slowly directed a thread of Yin Yang Jade Crane Aquarius Qi towards the umbrella girl's forehead.
The umbrella girl did not seem to feel anything. She continued to stare at him with wide eyes, a look of bewilderment on her face.
Lu Sheng's consciousness followed the thread of Aquarius Qi into the umbrella girl's body. Then, naturally, it condensed into a tiny core on her chest.
"So … comfortable …" the umbrella girl stammered.
"Comfortable?" Lu Sheng could clearly feel that the thread of Yin-attribute inner Qi was spreading rapidly, slowly assimilating and connecting with the cold Yin energy in the umbrella girl's body.
Like a seed that had taken root in the soil.
"BAM!!"
Suddenly, the seed exploded. Pure Aquarius Qi burst out of the umbrella girl's chest.
With a swoosh, the umbrella girl lowered her head in a daze to see a fist-sized hole in her chest.
"AHHH!!!"
She screamed and leapt up from the ground, shooting out of the cave.
Lu Sheng had no time to stop her. Instinctively, he reached out to grab her. His massive Ultimate Crimson Nine Furies Skill circulated instinctively.
Before the umbrella girl could escape more than a few meters, she was stopped by the blood web. Then, she was grabbed by Lu Sheng's large hand. Her entire body twisted violently.
She seemed to be in great pain. Her soul was so badly damaged that her eyes rolled back. Her entire body convulsed violently. Even though her body was scorched by the blood web and burned with web-like wounds, she frantically tried to rush out of the hole and away from Lu Sheng.
"Shouldn't Yin-attribute inner Qi strengthen the soul?" Lu Sheng was puzzled. He carefully recalled what had happened earlier.
At first, when his Aquarius Qi entered the umbrella girl's body, it had indeed been peaceful and unresponsive. Obviously, Yin-attribute inner Qi could coexist with the soul, unlike Yang-attribute inner Qi.
But from the moment it took root, everything changed.
Withdrawing his hand, Lu Sheng grabbed the umbrella girl and shook her violently.
The umbrella girl was already on the verge of death. Her soul was so thin that it was almost translucent. She was about to die.
"Could it be a form of rejection?" Lu Sheng suddenly thought of rejection in organ transplants.
"If the soul is really made up of pure hatred and fear, then my inner Qi itself carries an extremely strong personal imprint. As an inner Qi obtained from visualizing and refining food, it naturally contains my own will. Perhaps the two consciousnesses clashed … "
He pondered for a moment and patted the umbrella girl's cheek.
"Smack smack."
"Still alive?"
The umbrella girl's head swayed back and forth. When she saw Lu Sheng, she couldn't help but burst into tears. She ran to a corner of the hole and hugged the umbrella, shivering.
Lu Sheng grabbed her and dragged her over.
"Come, come, come. Let's try this again."
"No! … No!!!
"Don't move!!
"Don't come over!!"
"Bam!!"
Lu Sheng slapped the umbrella girl on the head, then watched as her eyes rolled back into her head and she fainted.
"Anomalies can faint too?"
He looked at her in surprise. But he didn't care anymore. Anomalies wouldn't die so easily anyway. He had to try a few more times before he could confirm the results of his previous experiment.
A second thread of Aquarius Qi seeped into the umbrella girl's body through his palm. The amount of Aquarius Qi this time was at least twice as much as before.
As the amount increased, Lu Sheng could clearly feel that the Aquarius Qi was entangling, devouring, and assimilating some sort of cold Yin energy in the umbrella girl's body at a rapid pace.
Due to the large amount of Aquarius Qi, the assimilation this time quickly formed a sturdier sphere in her body.
This sphere rapidly extended a large number of densely packed roots and spread to every inch of the umbrella girl's body. As for the cold energy that was still resisting, it was clearly getting weaker and weaker after a few rounds of resistance. In the end, it completely dissipated.
"This feeling … it's like Yin Crane Web!?" Suddenly, a thought flashed across Lu Sheng's mind. Everything became clear at once.
He quickly compared the Aquarius Qi network in the umbrella girl's body and used his inner vision to sense the network in his own body.
Indeed, it was exactly the same!
Furthermore …
He moved the Yin Crane Web on his arm.
The umbrella girl's arm moved as well. She had clearly fainted, but her arm moved as well.
"So this is the real use of Yin Crane Web!" This was practically a real-life version of a puppet.
Lu Sheng was overjoyed.
The previous explosion was probably the umbrella girl's own body's natural resistance. But the second time, her soul was much weaker and she was unable to resist, so she had no choice but to accept it.
Lu Sheng let go of the umbrella girl. Even though they were several meters apart, he could still sense the Yin Crane Web in her body. Basically, he could control it remotely.
In a short while, the umbrella girl regained consciousness and stared at him in terror.
"Come here," Lu Sheng instructed.
The umbrella girl shook her head. Her face was covered in tears and mucus as she crawled backwards, trying to get away from this place.
But she had only crawled a short distance when an intense swelling pain spread throughout her body. She sensed her own body in terror. She stood up uncontrollably and returned to Lu Sheng's side.
"Good girl." Lu Sheng reached out and patted her head.
The umbrella girl could not help but cry again.
"Let's go out for a while and try out the other ghosts."
Lu Sheng's interest was piqued. He grabbed her and walked out of the cave.
With the umbrella girl as a tool to sense ghosts, he quickly dragged out a cold water ghost covered in seaweed from a nearby frozen lake.
This water ghost looked like a large blob of seaweed, crawling and wriggling on the ground of the cave.
Using the same method as the umbrella girl, Lu Sheng extended his palm and pressed it against the center of the water ghost's body, injecting a strand of Aquarius Qi.
A smaller version of Yin Crane Web quickly formed and deeply rooted itself in the water ghost's body.
"Go. Run if you want to." Lu Sheng looked at the ball of water ghosts with a grin.
The dark green water ghost wriggled and quickly ran out of the cave. Before it could get far, Lu Sheng had a thought.
"Bam!!"
With a dull thud, the water ghost's body completely exploded like a bomb. It instantly turned into a large blob of dark green goo, evaporating under the sunlight and disappearing without a trace.
It was completely dead, just like that.
The umbrella girl's face was filled with terror as she watched from the side. She looked at Lu Sheng as if she was looking at a peerless demon king.
"Yin Crane Web can control the life and death of ghosts with a single thought. But I don't know if it's useful against Anomalies. Anomalies can't be killed by normal means." Lu Sheng's gaze fell on the umbrella girl.
"Forget it, I'll keep her for now. If she dies and can't be resurrected, I won't have a guinea pig. It's not easy to get an obedient Anomaly. "
He temporarily set aside the ability of Yin Crane Web. Since he could control the umbrella girl's body at will, he was not afraid of her escaping. Moreover, the blood web had sealed the cave entrance. Everything was as stable as Mount Tai.
After slapping the umbrella girl unconscious, Lu Sheng tidied up a little and prepared to return to the sect. He had gained a lot from this trip. It was time to improve his strength.
At this stage, he could vaguely feel that his Inner Qi and Yin were in harmony. His physical body was slowly being nurtured and transformed. Once the transformation was complete, his overall strength would definitely rise to a new level.
However, the transformation was too slow. Before this, his overall strength was not much different from before. It was only after the advancement of Yang Extreme Dao that his body's hard body skills had become stronger and more resilient.
He did not know how long the transformation would take. Since he had enough Yin Qi, he could try to use it to speed up the process.
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