Li Mu looked at the young female cultivator in front of him and did not say anything.
The two of them did not know each other. She must have taken the initiative not to strike up a conversation. She must have other motives.
As expected, seeing Li Mu's gaze, the female cultivator took the initiative to say, "I heard in the shop that you want a complete map of the Ghost Realm. I guessed that you want to go deep into the Ghost Realm. Coincidentally, we also have the idea of going deep into the Ghost Realm to hunt ghosts. Why don't we travel together? The depths of the Ghost Realm are filled with danger. One more person means one more chance to protect ourselves."
Behind the woman stood three cultivators, two men and one woman. The girl's cultivation level was just at the Spirit Condensation Realm, while the two men had already stepped into the Divine Power Realm.
The woman who spoke to Li Mu was also at the Divine Power Realm, the same cultivation level as Li Mu.
After all, the Ghost Realm was not human territory. The complicated environment made the Ghost Realm even more dangerous than the Demon Kingdom.
It was fine to hunt small ghosts in the Thousand Ghost Forest. If they wanted to go deep into the Ghost Realm to hunt more powerful ghosts, cultivators had to travel together. In this town, there were cultivators looking for partners everywhere.
The ghosts and wraiths in the Thousand Ghost Forest could no longer satisfy the needs of cultivators above the Spirit Condensation Realm. What they wanted to hunt were ghosts in the Spirit Realm.
Li Mu looked at the woman and asked, "Do you have a complete map of the Ghost Realm?"
The woman nodded and then said, "However, with our strength, we can only go 500 miles into the Ghost Realm at most. Any deeper and it will be dangerous. I wonder if you are willing to travel with us. Whoever kills the ghosts along the way will have the soul power. If we work together to kill the ghosts, we will distribute it according to contribution."
Shangguan Li had entered the Ghost Realm first. If Li Mu wanted to get the map, he had to return to the Divine Capital. Since these people had the map, Li Mu did not want to trouble them.
At most, he would help them in a while and treat it as a reward for obtaining the map.
Under the woman's expectant gaze, Li Mu nodded and said, "Alright, but can you let me take a look at the map of the Ghost Realm first?"
The woman straightforwardly handed a jade slip to Li Mu. Li Mu pressed it against his forehead for a moment before returning it to her. He said, "Thank you."
Then, the woman introduced the other people to Li Mu. "My name is Wu Qian. This is Fellow Daoist Zhang Man, Fellow Daoist Ding Liang, and this is Fellow Daoist Chen Yingying. How should I address you?"
"Li Mu."
Although he hadn't shown his true face yet, there were many people with the same name in the world, so he wasn't worried that others would suspect him.
When the two male cultivators heard Li Mu's name, they didn't feel anything strange. However, the girl named Chen Yingying's beautiful eyes suddenly lit up as she said, "It's the same name as my Martial Ancestor …"
Li Mu smiled and asked casually, "Little girl, which sect are you from?"
The girl said, "I'm from the Divine Talisman Sect. What sect are you from?"
When the girl reported her sect, Li Mu couldn't help but look at her twice. In addition to the Ancestral Court, the Fu-lu School had many outer sects, and the Divine Talisman Sect was one of them. In this way, he could barely be considered a disciple of the Fu-lu School.
Of course, Li Mu wouldn't reveal his identity. He said, "I don't belong to any sect. I'm just a rogue cultivator."
After introducing themselves, Li Mu knew that among the four people, except for Chen Yingying, who could barely be considered an outer sect disciple of the Fu-lu School, the other three were rogue cultivators. Therefore, they needed to take the risk and go to the Ghost Realm to obtain soul power resources.
As for Chen Yingying, she went down the mountain to gain experience.
To have the cultivation of the Spirit Condensation Realm at the age of eighteen or nineteen, she could be considered a little talented. However, for such a young disciple, after breaking through, it was necessary to enter the world to temper herself.
The five of them walked into the Hundred Ghosts Bamboo Forest together. Wu Qian reminded them, "Everyone, stay together. Don't get separated. It's fine here, but after going deep into the Ghost Realm, once you get separated, it'll be difficult to meet again …"
After walking into the bamboo forest, the surroundings began to be filled with a faint mist. This mist contained a strange power that even divine senses couldn't probe too far. For cultivators, divine senses were their eyes. With their divine senses suppressed, everyone lost their sense of security and became very vigilant.
Occasionally, soul bodies would fly out of the mist. These souls were full of ruthlessness and didn't have intelligence. They only instinctively thirsted for human essence blood and Yang Qi. They were the targets of cultivators.
As for those soul cultivators with intelligence, the cultivators who entered the Ghost Realm couldn't wait to avoid them. In a place like this, the strength that soul cultivators could unleash was far beyond their own strength. If they encountered soul cultivators, the prey and the hunter would often switch identities.
Li Mu didn't really do anything along the way. The souls that pounced on them from the fog and attacked them were all dealt with by the other four people. In the beginning, the group only encountered wraiths and evil spirits. As they continued to go deeper into the fog, Fourth Realm vile souls gradually began to appear.
At this time, everyone would often work together to kill them and divide the soul power equally.
At a certain moment, the mist in front of them fluctuated again. Except for Li Mu, the others immediately raised their spirits. Soon, a few figures walked out of the mist.
But this time, it wasn't ghosts that appeared from the mist, but humans.
There were also five people on the opposite side. When Wu Qian and the others saw this, not only did they not relax, their expressions became even more nervous. The faces of the people on the opposite side also appeared vigilant at the same time. A few of them even held their weapons.
The atmosphere between the two sides was very tense. Not long after, the five people walked to the left side of the mist and their figures quickly disappeared.
The four people beside Li Mu also breathed a sigh of relief. Wu Qian looked at Li Mu and asked, "Fellow Daoist Li, is this your first time in the Ghost Realm?"
Li Mu nodded and said, "I've never been here before."
"No wonder." Wu Qian shook her head and said, "Fellow Daoist Li, if you come to the Ghost Realm again in the future, you must remember that the most dangerous thing here is not the ghosts without intelligence, nor the powerful ghost cultivators, but the human cultivators like us. If you encounter them, you should hide if you can, but if you can't hide, you must not let your guard down …"
Li Mu cupped his hands and said, "Thank you for the reminder."
Wu Qian saw that his expression was indifferent, as if he didn't take it to heart. Instead, her expression became more serious, and she continued, "Fellow Daoist Li may not know, but most of the cultivators who die in the Ghost Realm don't die at the hands of ghosts, but at the hands of their companions and other cultivators. There are no rules here. Things like killing and seizing treasures happen every day …"
Li Mu could be more serious and said, "I know."
Wu Qian looked at the three people beside her and said, "But Fellow Daoist Li, you don't have to worry. Addicts Zhang, Fellow Daoist Ding, and Sister Yingying, we have worked together many times. We originally had another companion, but he was in seclusion to break through the realm these days, so he didn't come with us. That's why we invited you."
After encountering other cultivator teams nearby, they obviously became more united. They moved forward for dozens of miles and killed a few evil spirits and a fierce soul. When the four of them were happily splitting the soul power, Li Mu's eyebrows suddenly raised, and he inadvertently glanced in a certain direction.
There was only thick fog in that direction, and nothing unusual.
After a dozen breaths, Wu Qian and the other two male cultivators' expressions suddenly changed, and they looked in the direction Li Mu had just looked. A phantom rushed out of the thick fog and rushed straight at them.
Feeling the powerful aura fluctuations on the phantom, their expressions changed at the same time.
"Not good!"
"It's a Fifth Realm Ghost!"
"This is still the periphery, how can there be a Ghost!"
Along the way, the most they had encountered were Fourth Realm vile souls. Ghosts were equivalent to Fifth Realm human cultivators. Although they did not have intelligence and could only move based on instinct, they were still not something a Fourth Realm cultivator could fight against.
Wu Qian made a prompt decision and said immediately, "Everyone, stay calm and attack together. Take care of each other and don't get separated!"
At this moment, the importance of a team was reflected.
A Divinity realm cultivator would not be a match for a Fifth Realm Ghost. However, four Divinity realm cultivators and a Spirit Conduit realm cultivator could fight against a Ghost without intelligence. Of course, the most important thing was that they had Li Mu. If not for Li Mu's secret methods, this Ghost that suddenly appeared would have been a battle of life and death for them.
They had never encountered a Ghost since entering the Ghost Domain. The four of them were already extremely nervous, but as they fought, they realized that this Ghost did not seem to be that powerful.
Its attack power was not high, but its defense was very weak. It was beaten by their Dharmic arts until it roared non-stop.
"That's it?"
"A Fifth Realm Ghost is only so-so …"
"If we take its Soul Energy, we'll have struck it big this time!"
…
After realizing that this Ghost's strength was only so-so and that it had been suppressed from the start, the four of them were no longer nervous like before. Instead, they were excited and expectant. The light of Dharmic arts and Dharmic treasures intertwined even more intensely.
If they could harvest this Ghost, each of them would be able to get a huge amount of Soul Energy. Whether it was for cultivation or exchanging it for Spiritual Jades, this trip would not have been in vain.
Although the specter did not have any intelligence, it was being beaten back by several 'weak' existences, which made it even more irritable. It roared and sucked in all the Yin Qi within a radius of several miles into its mouth. Its body grew several times larger, and its aura immediately increased dramatically.
The Ghost's sudden change caused the smiles on their faces to disappear. Under that powerful aura, their hearts trembled with fear.
At this moment, the Ghost let out a wild roar and swooped down on the four of them.
Li Mu stood behind the four of them and calmly glanced at the Ghost.
With just a glance, the Ghost's body trembled and it suddenly ran back as if its life depended on it.
Li Mu threw out a Fu-lu. With a flash of lightning, the Ghost was immediately heavily injured and fell to the ground, unable to float up again.
Li Mu walked in front of them and said with a look of pity, "It's a pity that this high-grade Fu-lu was gifted by Elder Zhang. He still has the strength to resist. Everyone, let's attack together."
The four of them reacted and were about to attack to completely disperse the Ghost's Soul Body.
Xiu!
A green light flew out from the fog and pierced through the Ghost's body. The Ghost's Soul Body collapsed, leaving only pure Soul Energy. The figures that walked out of the fog condensed it into a Soul Ball.
The face of the male cultivator named Zhang Man immediately darkened. He shouted, "What are you doing!"
Among them, a young man glanced at him and said, "This Ghost was killed by us. Why can't we take its Soul Energy?"
Chen Yingying took a step forward and said angrily, "We were the ones who injured it first. You stole our prey!"
The young man sneered and said, "What a joke. The Ghosts of the Ghost Realm don't have a master. They belong to whoever killed them. Do you think you can kill a Ghost with just the few of you?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a sneering voice came from behind Wu Qian.
"Since when did the disciples of Xuanzong have to steal the Soul Energy of Wandering Cultivators? If this gets out, I'm afraid you'll become the laughing stock of the cultivation world. What do you think, Qing Xuanzi?"
Among the several figures, the young man who had been silent all this time suddenly changed his expression. He stared at the young man opposite him and asked, "Who are you?"
Li Mu walked out from behind Wu Qian and said lightly, "I'm just a Wandering Cultivator who can't stand what you're doing. Strange, Xuanzong is the world's number one sect, a righteous sect. Why would you do this kind of robbery? You're one of the top ten disciples of Xuanzong, but you're stealing the Soul Energy of Wandering Cultivators in the Ghost Realm. Do your elders know?"
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