Ghost Realm, Fengdu City.
Li Mu and Illusion Princess floated in the air. The Three Elders of You and Ming, the four Ghost Kings, and the Ghost Servant stood behind them, looking at a huge fog vortex in the city.
Li Mu and Illusion Princess were cultivating in the Demon Nation when they suddenly received a message from the Ghost Servant that something strange had happened in Fengdu City. He immediately rushed to the Ghost Realm with Illusion Princess.
In Fengdu City, the fog vortex gathered all the Yin Qi within a thousand miles and sucked it into the vortex.
Under the huge fog vortex, a powerful aura was brewing.
It wasn't the first time Li Mu felt this aura, so he naturally knew what it meant.
With the combined efforts of the entire Ghost Realm, Su He was taking the crucial step. Soon, the Empress of the Great Zhou, the Queen of Ten Thousand Demons, and the Master of the Ghost Realm would all become Seventh Realm experts.
Li Mu and the others waited for several hours. In the fog vortex, Su He's aura finally reached a peak. Then, it broke through a certain barrier. The vortex gradually dissipated, and a figure walked out.
At this moment, the four Ghost Kings and Feng Yi, who only had a soul body, suddenly felt a sense of fear from the depths of their hearts.
Facing the figure that walked out, they couldn't suppress the desire to submit in their hearts. They couldn't help but bow, and even their heads were lowered.
In Fengdu City, countless ghost cultivators had the same feeling. They all knelt on the ground and kowtowed in a certain direction.
Outside Fengdu City, the wandering ghosts all stopped in their tracks. Then, they lined up in neat rows and slowly floated towards Fengdu City.
The Ghost Servant knelt on one knee and said respectfully, "Congratulations, Ghost Lord!"
When the four Ghost Kings and Bi One saw this, they knelt down as well. Although Bi Two and Bi Three weren't Ghost Cultivators and didn't cultivate Ghost Dao techniques, they were too embarrassed to remain standing when everyone had knelt down. They could only kneel down and say respectfully, "Congratulations, Ghost Lord!"
Su He's voice was gentle as she said, "Rise."
Then, she slowly walked in front of Li Mu and looked at Illusion Princess. Illusion Princess also puffed out her chest and looked back at her, not to be outdone.
Su He was the first to speak, "I've often heard him mention it. Now that I've seen it with my own eyes, the Queen of the Ten Thousand Demons is indeed charming."
For some reason, although Illusion Princess didn't like Zhou Yi, she didn't reject the girl in front of her. She smiled and said, "Ghost Lord sister, you're too kind. You're also very beautiful …"
Su He bowed to her and said softly, "Su He."
Huan Ji also returned the greeting and smiled, "Huan Ji."
…
Seeing the two of them complimenting each other and introducing themselves, Li Mu was momentarily stunned.
Phantom Princess and the Empress were like fire and water. They were always at loggerheads with each other. However, she and Su He got along very well. This was out of Li Mu's expectations.
Originally, this time, if she didn't insist on coming, Li Mu planned to go to the Ghost Realm alone. With her by his side, he felt uneasy. Only now did he feel relieved.
Each of them had a noble status and millions of people under them. If they were all like Illusion Princess and the Empress, Li Mu would be stuck in the middle. Who knew how uncomfortable it would be.
After Su He advanced, countless wandering souls began to gather outside Fengdu City.
Those were the wandering souls of the Ghost Realm welcoming their king.
At first, they were just low-level wandering souls. Gradually, fifth and sixth level wandering souls began to appear. Among the group of wandering souls, there were existences whose auras weren't weaker than the seventh level.
The Ghost Realm was a treasure trove that hadn't been fully explored yet. Only when she advanced to the seventh level could she completely control this treasure trove.
In the next few days, Li Mu accompanied Su He and traveled through the entire Ghost Realm.
The corpses of giant beasts that had been dead for tens of thousands of years in the Ghost Realm were the nests of wandering souls. The strongest wandering souls existed there. In five days, Li Mu and Su He found more than ten seventh level wandering souls. Su He subdued all of them.
It was also in these few days that Li Mu and Su He noticed some clues.
In the Ghost Realm, the number of souls suddenly increased dramatically. Moreover, they were all Yin spirits that had just died.
As the master of the Ghost Realm, Su He was the clearest about the situation in the Ghost Realm. Wandering souls didn't have intelligence. Ghost cultivators also had the characteristics of ghost cultivators. The number of these two wouldn't change too much in a short time.
If the number of Yin spirits in a place increased dramatically in a short time, there was only one possibility. That place had many people who died in a short time.
And those Yin spirits couldn't all come to the Ghost Realm. Therefore, the true number of people who died in the places where these Yin spirits were was far more than this number.
The two of them traced back to the source and finally found the source of these Yin spirits.
Yanzhou.
The conflict at the border of the Shen Nation let Li Mu know that Yanzhou wasn't peaceful recently. However, after personal investigation, he found out that the entire Yanzhou had completely turned into a battlefield.
This was a large-scale war. Almost all the tribes and nations in Yanzhou participated in it. Millions of Yanzhou people died in the war. The souls of the dead even drifted to the Ghost Realm.
Before the Great Zhou was founded, the situation in Zu Province was also like this.
It wasn't until Emperor Taizu founded the Great Zhou that the Zu Continent was unified. During the reigns of Emperor Wu, Emperor Wen, and the Empress, the Great Zhou was cleared of internal and external troubles. Only then did the Zu Continent achieve its current stability.
If it weren't for this, the Zu Continent would be no different from Yanzhou now.
Although Li Mu couldn't stand the sight of corpses lying everywhere, this situation wasn't something that could be changed by one person or one nation. The only thing he could do was to protect the Zu Continent, protect the Yao Nation, and protect the Ghost Realm. He didn't want them to follow in Yanzhou's footsteps.
After figuring out the source of the Yin spirits, Li Mu and Su He left hand in hand. As they were leaving, he vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't pinpoint exactly what it was.
He turned around to take a look, but still found nothing.
Su He noticed Li Mu's strange behavior and asked, "What's wrong?"
Li Mu shook his head and said, "Nothing. Let's go."
However, just as they were about to return to the Ghost Realm, Li Mu suddenly turned back. At that moment, he finally realized what was wrong.
Evil spirit. Wherever Li Mu and Su He went, there was no trace of evil spirit in the various battlefields in Yanzhou.
This was extremely illogical.
Battlefields were places of great evil. Evil spirit gathered here. Without external interference, it wouldn't dissipate even after hundreds of years. But in the various battlefields in Yanzhou, millions of people died, and there wasn't even a trace of evil spirit …
There was only one possibility. The evil spirit in all the battlefields in Yanzhou had been taken away by someone.
Li Mu had once sneaked into the Ghost Island and knew the cultivation methods of the demonic cultivators. In addition to the soul and blood essence of humans, evil spirit, death spirit, and so on were also one of their cultivation methods.
Those who cultivated these paths often liked to use ancient battlefields or ancient tombs as cultivation places. These places were full of evil spirit and death spirit, which was the most suitable for them to cultivate.
Soon, Li Mu realized something.
The inexplicable intercontinental war in Yanzhou, the deaths of millions of people, and the disappearance of the evil spirit — combined with these things, an answer was on the verge of being revealed.
Someone instigated an intercontinental war in Yanzhou and used the evil spirit piled up by millions of people to cultivate!
To need so much evil spirit, this person's cultivation was definitely not Dongxuan. At the very least, he was at the peak of the Transcendence realm like Xuanming. He wanted to use this to break through to the eighth realm!
And Yanzhou was the location of another headquarters of the demonic cultivators.
Only the demonic cultivators could do such a thing.
Li Mu had once wondered how the first and second ancestors of the demonic cultivators would advance to the eighth realm, but he couldn't think of an answer because he underestimated the demonic cultivators' bottom line. In order to break through, they sacrificed millions of innocent lives. They had no bottom line at all!
More importantly, by the time Li Mu discovered it, it was already too late.
The person behind the scenes had already gathered enough evil spirit. It was only a matter of time before he broke through, and it definitely wouldn't take too long. When that time came, how should he deal with it?
Compared to the demonic cultivators, the righteous cultivators he could ally with had an advantage in number of seventh realm cultivators. They had no problem dealing with one of the three ancestors of the demonic cultivators. However, if there was another eighth realm cultivator, they would definitely be defeated. If there were two more eighth realm cultivators, even the Taoist and Buddhist sects, the Yao Kingdom, the Ghost Realm, and the Great Zhou would have no chance of winning.
Li Mu could predict that if Yanzhou was like this, the situation in Juku State shouldn't be any better.
Looking at the devastated land of Yanzhou, Li Mu's heart began to sink …
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