Chapter 554: Sinister Po (2/2)
After death, some of these ten entities would come together to form a “ghost soul”.
The ghosts might not have all ten; some would be missing.
The three souls also had another name - Embryo, Invigoration, and Nether. After death, the Nether Soul would disappear into the world.
This deficiency made the ghosts lose all sentience. They would just float around aimlessly and no longer qualified to stay in this world. A different one would call for them.
The Buddhists called this other world, “hell”. The daoists called it the underworld.
But nothing was absolute in this world. A few powerful characters would leave a bit of their soul behind for these ghost forms.
Under special death circumstances, a strand of the souls would be left behind too. For example, dying to certain weapons, dying with great hatred, regrets, or desires…
Due to the broken nature of the soul, some ghosts were evil, just like the remnant intents.
They were special in that they could resist the calling of hell and stay in this world as a different type of creatures.
If these ghost souls wanted to become a specter, they would need to absorb their own kind of yin energy in order to cultivate the Essence and Power spirits.
These two spirits were what they were missing as well. Without Essence, the ghosts can’t have a form in this world. People can’t see it; they were as empty as air.
Some specters were strong enough to gather plenty of Essence, enough to take on a human form, or even physical flesh.
Without Power, the ghosts were harmless and couldn’t kill people. The more Power, the more battle potential.
“You’re quite knowledgeable, Princess.” Yao Ji opened the bottle and dozens of ghost souls came out. Three of them looked exactly like the three young kings killed by Feiyun earlier.
They had plenty of hatred so their expression was twisted. Amusingly enough, they were the “kings” among ghosts.
She closed it again with a faint smile as if this was no big deal.
“You’re from the Yin World?” The princess asked with a serious tone.
“Of course not, I’m a disciple of Yin Void and only came across these ghost-catching arts by accident.” Yao Ji showed off her white teeth and dimples before putting the bottle away.
The princess naturally didn’t believe her. Even a powerful treasure-masters can’t capture ghosts in broad daylight without being detected.
Moreover, the fifth disciple of the Grand Tutor, Daoist Ling Luan was sitting right there. If Yao Ji only knew some shabby techniques, he would have detected it instantly.
Grooming ghosts was taboo in the cultivation world. The users would be under attack by all once exposed.
“Are you not afraid of people from the Yin World coming to find you?” The princess asked again.
Yao Ji rolled her eyes and said: “Their biggest enemy is the Evil Woman, they don’t have time to worry about this little game of mine.”
The princess was good at reading people and knew that Yao Ji wasn’t telling the truth.
Meanwhile, Feiyun’s bloodthirst still horrified the crowd as he easily killed Xu Feng.
Another young king had fallen. The stage became quiet, no one else dared to come up.
“Brother Dongfang, why not go try, don’t you love devilish geniuses like him?” Li Xiaonan smiled.
Jingshui remained leisure: “The gambling hall will send geniuses here to kill him now that he had shown up. It is regrettable if I mess up this show. After all, 300,000 stones are on the line.”
Sure enough, plenty of unfamiliar faces appeared beneath the stage. Each was ready to fight with surging spirit energy.
Meanwhile, Yao Ji had taken Xu Feng’s ghost soul into her bottle and also noticed the billowing auras beneath. She knew that many insane geniuses have come and they would have pure souls like the beasts. “Haha, today is a great day.”
1. This guy…
2. The names for these differ depending on the sources. The seven spirits here seemed to be the author’s own
3. Trust me, these terms are foreign to me too. I have no choice but to literally translate them Previous ChapterNext Chapte