Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

But the female ghost's hands were not idle either.

She flicked her fingers rapidly, and strands of gray-black ghostly energy shot out from her fingertips, slicing through the nodes of the Yin Fire Net.

Several threads even pierced through the gaps in the fire net and shot towards Tianhao's face.

He turned his head to dodge, the silk thread whizzing past his ear and carving deep grooves into the sea behind him.

Tianhao shook his head.

I originally intended to use the White Bone Yin Flame Pearl to disguise myself as a demonic cultivator.

It seems somewhat unrealistic now—his spiritual energy attributes are incompatible with Yin Fire, making it somewhat difficult to control.

Forget it.

Tianhao raised his right hand, extended his index finger, and a point of pure white light condensed at the tip of his finger.

Supernatural power, Haoyang Finger.

The white light at the fingertip transformed into a beam of white light the instant the hand was released.

The white beam of light left a thin black spatial rift in the void.

That Haoyang Finger locked onto the female ghost general's aura, and she couldn't escape it no matter which direction she went.

The female ghost general clearly noticed this as well.

She concentrated all the ghostly energy around her in front of her, transforming it into five ghostly shields.

Each side is a solid shield formed by the extreme compression of gray-black ghostly energy, with twisted ghostly patterns floating on its surface.

Haoyang forcefully pierced through the five-sided ghost shield. Although the momentum slowed down slightly, the remaining powerful force still pierced through the black gauze magic weapon and struck the female ghost general.

Her left shoulder, along with half of her body, was shattered by Hao Yang's finger, turning into a cloud of gray-black mist.

The female ghost will let out a sharp scream, like countless needles piercing your ears at the same time.

The twelve pillars of yin fire tightened simultaneously, locking the female ghost's remaining body and compressing it into a black ball of light about ten feet in size.

The ball of light trembled violently in the yin fire, its spiritual light flickering uncertainly. The female ghost was still struggling, trying to gather ghostly energy to fight back.

But Tianhao didn't give her a chance.

The White Bone Yin Flame Pearl spun violently, and the twelve pillars of fire pressed inward simultaneously, compressing the black light cluster. Soon after, the ghostly energy vanished with a roar.

A high-grade, third-tier ghost crystal emerged from the dissipating ghostly energy. It was a full size larger than Lin Zhao's crystal and of significantly higher quality.

Tianhao caught the Ghost Crystal, weighed it in his hand, and put it into his sleeve.

The moment the female ghost vanished, a new reaction occurred in the direction of Moon Eclipse Island in the distance.

The gray-white fog that enveloped the island began to expand and surge outward at a visible speed.

Twenty beams of light rose from various parts of Eclipse Island.

Each one exuded the aura of the Core Formation stage.

The dark, ghostly aura completely swallowed the moonlight, darkening the sea surface for hundreds of miles around.

The temperature of the entire sea area plummeted to its lowest point in an instant, and a thick layer of black ice formed on the surface.

The four of them turned their heads at the same time and looked at each other.

"beat."

Since we're already here, what's there to be afraid of?

The four of them joined forces and directly confronted twenty Core Formation Ghost Generals.

The battlefield was instantly engulfed by ghostly energy.

Within a radius of hundreds of miles, ghostly figures loomed, a chilling wind howled, and countless gray-black ghostly claws reached out from all directions.

The Purple Blood Net of the Spirit-Stabilizing Immortal was spread across the sea, and the blood light and ghostly energy were locked in a fierce struggle.

He trapped four early-stage ghost generals, tightening the net and enveloping their bodies with the power of blood and evil like a cocoon, crushing them layer by layer.

The howl of the demon general emanated from the net, its sharp sound causing the seawater to tremble.

Pu Hui unleashed his Dharma domain, trapping the two demon generals once more, alternating between using the vajra and the vajra bell.

He wanted to try to convert them again, but the two ghost generals resisted more fiercely than he expected. He stopped forcing it and directly transformed them into ghost crystals.

Pu Hui frowned slightly as the two crystals landed in his palm.

Something feels off; these ghost generals don't seem like independent individuals.

Lin Zhao opened her all-seeing eye,

The ghost cultivator's concealment, clones, and illusions are useless against the Dharma Eye.

The Divine Soul Sword Tower hovered beside him, and wherever the golden light from its tip swept across, a ghost general was locked onto.

Under the golden light of the sword tower, the ghost general's body stiffened, and he was forcibly taken into the tower.

Sword energy crisscrossed and cut through the tower, disintegrating the ghostly body, and the fragments of the soul were re-condensed into ghostly crystals under the tempering of sword intent.

One statue, two statues, three statues.

He summoned seven ghost generals into the tower in one go, causing the tower's golden light to shine to its fullest extent.

The commotion on Tianhao's side was even bigger.

Twelve pillars of yin fire surrounded his body, forming a flowing wall of yin fire. Ghosts that approached were burned by the yin fire with a sizzling sound.

He kept pointing with his right index finger.

Haoyang pointed out that the white beam of light could shatter the body of a ghost general with a single strike.

Before the shattered ghost body could reassemble, the Yin Fire Net of the White Bone Yin Flame Pearl enveloped it, wrapping the remains and refining them into Ghost Crystals.

He used his supernatural powers seven times and obtained seven Tier 3 Ghost Crystals.

After Lin Zhao received the seventh ghost general, he also frowned slightly.

During the process of transforming the Ghost Crystals, the Divine Soul Sword Tower discovered that the spiritual power of these ghost generals was too similar, as if they were from the same source.

These twenty ghost generals don't seem to be independent ghost cultivators, but rather like the avatars of a powerful ghost cultivator.

Pu Hui opened the golden bowl and glanced at it; it was empty. The two ghost generals he had previously converted had turned into ghost crystals.

Just then, the fog on Eclipse Island completely erupted.

The dark gray mist rose into the sky from the center of the island, churning, spreading, and falling in mid-air, forming a huge ghost domain covering hundreds of miles.

Within the Ghost Realm, the seawater turned black, the moonlight was completely blocked, and the air was filled with a chill that reached the depths of one's soul.

In the very center of the Ghost Realm, a massive black throne appeared.

On the throne sat a beautiful woman.

She wore a wide black palace gown, the hem of which hung down from the edge of the throne and fluttered slowly in the gray mist.

He wore a black demon king crown on his head, with three dark red gems embedded in it, emitting a faint blood-red light.

On her left hand was a gray ghost ring, covered with countless tiny ghost patterns that seemed to move as if they were alive.

The black throne, black palace attire, the ghost king's crown, and the gray ghost ring—all four magical artifacts released terrifying fluctuations of spiritual energy.

They are all top-grade third-tier magic treasures.

I don't know where this old ghost came from; he's definitely not someone that a few local Core Formation families could raise.

Moreover, her face is exactly the same as the female ghost general that Tianhao killed before.

Or rather, that female ghost general was merely a wisp of her clone.

Ghost cultivators are different from ordinary cultivators; they have many clones.

The female ghost gently touched the throne with her left hand, which wore the ghost ring.

The entire Ghost Domain trembled simultaneously.

A terrifying pressure poured down from the throne; her aura almost surpassed the peak of the Core Formation stage and had already touched the threshold of the Nascent Soul Ghost King.

The four of them huddled together, their faces serious.

Tianhao's expression turned serious for the first time. The path of ghost cultivation is extremely difficult, and only one in ten thousand can reach this point.

For a ghost cultivator to reach the threshold of the Nascent Soul stage is more than ten times more difficult than for a normal cultivator.

This female ghost general,

Do not,

She could already be called a "half-step Ghost King".

And most importantly, Tianhao had just severed one of her spiritual bodies.

Ghost cultivators are easily swayed by emotions, let alone female ghost cultivators.

The two sides confronted each other at the edge of the ghost realm.