Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

Hundreds of ghostly figures rushed towards Pu Hui at the same time.

The gray-black ghost claws tore through the air with a sharp sound.

Countless wisps of mist were stirred up, like a pot of boiling water.

Lin Zhao didn't move; he saw it very clearly.

These are just second-tier ghost cultivators; their minds have long been worn away by time, leaving only their most primal instincts.

Second-tier ghost cultivators pose no threat to ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators.

If there is only one second-tier ghost cultivator like this, even a powerful Qi Refining Level 10 cultivator can confront it head-on by relying on attribute advantage.

Not to mention Core Formation cultivators like Pu Hui.

Pu Hui did not make any moves.

As soon as the first figure rushed to his vicinity, Pu Hui transformed his palm into a blade, delivering a clean and swift palm strike.

As the edge of his palm swept across, a golden light appeared, which flew out of his hand, grew longer in the wind, and then swept across the gray-black figures.

As the golden light passed, hundreds of gray-black figures froze in mid-air, then vanished one by one, like cigarette ash scattered by the wind; most simply turned into nothingness.

Only a few ghost cultivators who still retained human form left behind finger-sized grayish-black crystals after they dissipated.

Second-tier Ghost Crystals are of low quality, but for Core Formation cultivators, they are better than nothing.

Pu Hui collected these ghost crystals.

But this attack also stirred up a hornet's nest.

Deep within Moon Eclipse Island, four dark gray-black ghostly beams of light shot into the sky.

After the pillar of light dissipated, four figures appeared before Monk Puhui—third-tier ghost generals, each far more solid than the second-tier ghost cultivators from before.

They could still make out expressions on their faces, though they were stiff, but their eyes clearly showed a certain level of consciousness.

The Dharma Protector Vajra of Universal Benefit went to meet the four ghost generals.

With a flick of his wrist, Pu Hui sent the rosary flying out of his hand. The twelve beads scattered, drawing twelve golden arcs in the air, connecting end to end to form a circular barrier.

Golden light rose from the edge of the barrier, like an inverted bowl, enveloping the four ghost generals in the middle.

The barrier wasn't large, only about ten miles in circumference.

There wasn't much noise.

This is, after all, the stronghold of ghost cultivators; who knows how many old monsters are still slumbering on the island?

The Vajra Bell flew out from his sleeve and hovered in the center of the Dharma Domain, slowly rotating.

With each rotation, a deep, sacred sound is emitted.

Pu Hui sat cross-legged on the sea and began chanting incantations.

Golden Sanskrit characters emerged from between his brows, like tiny chains that wrapped around the bodies of the four ghost generals.

The ghost struggled, its ghostly aura surging, its gray-black and gold colors clashing repeatedly.

The ghost's gray-black color gradually turned into gold.

He was converting the ghost general.

The monk was planning to make a quick buck, capturing a few live ghost generals to refine into guardian deities.

Just as the conversion process was halfway through, the depths of Lunar Eclipse Island stirred again.

Five auras awakened simultaneously, stronger than the previous four. Pu Hui's expression changed—two of the auras were clearly those of mid-stage Core Formation Ghost Cultivators.

He had devoted most of his magical power to converting the four ghost generals, and the conversion of the Vajra Bell was not yet complete.

There's nothing we can do.

The vajra flew from his hand, transforming into a golden stream of light that pierced through the two trapped ghost generals, turning into two fist-sized third-tier ghost crystals.

He temporarily converted the remaining two ghost generals, and their bodies were forcibly dyed a light gold color.

He took out a golden bowl from his sleeve, pointed it at the two ghost generals who had been temporarily converted, and with a flick of the golden light, the two ghost generals shrank into two pale golden streams of light and fell into the bowl.

Then he turned and left.

Without the slightest hesitation.

Five ghost generals chased after them.

One of the female ghost generals—with long, flowing hair and delicate features—was draped in a layer of black gauze, her ghostly aura almost tangible.

She was still wearing a complete black palace dress.

She raised her hand, her five slender fingers joined together, and a gray-black blade of light, a hundred feet in size, shot out from her hand.

Ghost Shadow Slash.

A hundred-foot-long, gray-black blade of light sliced ​​across the sea, instantly evaporating the seawater in its path and splitting the seabed rocks in two after the light passed by.

This attack was unusual.

This is not something an ordinary Core Formation Ghost General could defeat.

This female ghost general is clearly a core member of Moon Eclipse Island.

Pu Hui forcibly moved away, barely avoiding the aftershocks of the blade's edge.

The robe was brushed by ghostly energy, and the cuffs were charred black, with tiny gray-black flames burning along the edges.

He landed on the sea dozens of miles away and took a breath.

Five ghost generals had caught up and surrounded him. The gray-black ghostly energy merged into one, trapping Pu Hui in the middle.

But they didn't notice that there were three other people on the outside.

Lin Zhao, Tian Hao, and Ding Ling Zhenren appeared simultaneously from three directions.

The roles of surrounding and being surrounded can be reversed in an instant.

Master Dingling was the first to act. The Purple Blood Fiend Net flew out from his sleeve, spread out underwater, and instantly covered the battlefield.

The Spirit-Stabilizing Seal hung in mid-air, while the hundred-foot square seal pressed down, suppressing all the ghostly energy fluctuations emanating from the ghost generals back into the net.

Lin Zhao unleashed the Divine Soul Sword Tower.

The tower is entirely jade-gold in color, engraved with countless sword-path runes, and a single point of dazzling golden light at its tip exudes a terrifyingly sharp aura.

The Sword Tower possesses two great supernatural powers: one is the Divine Soul Sword Sound, and the other is the ability to forcibly capture and suppress a divine soul, then enter the Sword Tower and obliterate it.

The Divine Soul Sword Tower flew to the top of a mid-stage Core Formation Ghost General's head, and golden light surged from the bottom of the tower, enveloping the Ghost General's body.

The ghost general roared, trying to break free, its gray-black ghostly energy surging violently within the golden light.

Lin Zhao activated the tower, and the tower trembled slightly—a sword cry came from inside the tower, directly piercing through the ghost cultivator's divine sea.

The ghost general's body stiffened abruptly, its struggles stopped instantly, and it was absorbed into the tower by the golden light.

Golden light from the top of the tower descended into the tower's interior, flowing within it. Sword runes lit up—countless tiny sword energies condensed within the tower's interior, each precisely slicing through the ghost general's body.

In less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the mid-stage Core Formation Ghost General transformed into a fist-sized, third-tier Ghost Crystal. The crystal was as warm and smooth as jade, with extremely fine gray mist slowly flowing inside.

Lin Zhao put the item into her storage bag and looked at the others.

Pu Hui has already stopped; he had already gained some benefits, and he's leaving the rest to others.

The Purple Blood Fiend Net of the Spirit-Stabilizing Immortal trapped three early-stage Core Formation Ghost Generals. The power of the blood fiend penetrated their bodies, and their ghostly energy was gradually devoured and refined by the blood energy. The forms of the three Ghost Generals became fainter and fainter, and finally turned into three Ghost Soul Crystals.

The Spirit-Stabilizing Immortal put away the Ghostly Crystal.

Now all that remains is the female ghost general in the mid-stage of Core Formation standing before Tianhao.

She was the ghost cultivator who used the Ghost Yin Slash before, and she was also the strongest among the five ghost generals.

The ghostly aura was more solid than the other four, and it was surrounded by a layer of black gauze, indicating that it was a defensive magic treasure of considerable quality.

Tianhao unleashed the White Bone Yin Flame Pearl.

The bone beads scattered, and twelve pale fire pillars intertwined in the air, forming a large net that enveloped the female ghost general from all directions.

The female ghost let out a sharp cry, and the black veil on her body lit up, forming a black ghostly aura shield around her.

Countless pale, eerie flames landed on the ghostly aura shield that the female ghost was forming, hissing and crackling, and the ghostly aura on the surface of the shield dimmed at a visible speed.