Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan - Chapter 1326: 1132: Going Out

Chapter 1326: Chapter 1132: Going Out

There are ghosts in the Primal Spirit Realm, but such beings cannot be called a race.

Because they lack Spiritual Intelligence!

Additionally, due to the dense Yin Qi, which is easy to gather, they are often used as refinement material by the Demonic Tao. For example, the Demonic Tao has a tradition specializing in Ghost Refinement and Ghost Control.

However, according to Li Yunchang, it’s easy to understand that the ‘ghosts’ in the Changli Mountain Range are not the refinement materials that people usually think of. They have not only developed Spiritual Intelligence but can also perform spells and Divine Powers.

As for why they are exterminated tonight only to ‘resurrect’ the next night, Li Zhirui does not yet know the reason.

…

Golden Crow in the west sets, Jade Rabbit in the east rises.

The sky was dark as ink, without a trace of starlight. Even the Taiyin was merely a waning moon, unable to shed much light despite its efforts.

Swoosh—

The sound of rustling appeared in the mountains and forests as a wave of cold and Yin Qi slowly spread.

Before long, the Devil Beasts hidden in the mountains roared one after another, breaking the night’s silence, and their roars unmistakably carried a hint of terror.

At the time, when the Li family found those ‘ghosts’, it was due to the Devil Beasts’ anger-filled roars and wild beasts’ cries, which seemed unusual, prompting a small team of dozens to enter the forest to investigate the reason.

“You stay in the city, I’ll go ahead and investigate.”

Having said this, Li Zhirui disappeared in a flash.

He followed the wailing of a wild beast and saw several ‘people’ who were dim, not quite physical entities, floating in the air, attacking the ferocious tiger in front of them with menacing gestures.

The beast’s attacks never landed on them, but each of their attacks could take some essence from the tiger’s body.

‘Vital Energy!’

After a brief observation, Li Zhirui had the answer in his mind.

In just a moment, they had devoured all the Vital Energy of a towering tiger, strengthening their aura a little, but still only at the mid-stage of Qi Cultivation.

‘Really like the ancient legends of ghosts!’

Thinking this, Li Zhirui carefully seized them.

The reason for caution was not fear of them, nor their hidden presence, but concern that even a slight exertion could crush these weak ghosts.

Using Divine Sense to observe for a while, he found that they indeed have Spiritual Intelligence, but very weak, comparable to three or four-year-old children, naturally impossible to provide any useful information from their mouths, as even slight force would reduce them to strands of Yin Qi, dissipating into the air.

“Huh?”

Th𝘪𝕤 𝓬h𝘢p𝕥ℯr ı𝓈 p𝐨𝗌𝐭𝓮ɗ bʏ 𝗞𝒾𝙩ҽṉ𝐨𝕧𝗲𝑙

Just as Li Zhirui was leaving, his peripheral vision suddenly caught a glimpse of Spirit Light, and by a thought he halted it.

“This is True Spirit?!”

True Spirit enables the birth of Spiritual Intelligence, otherwise, it is ‘dead matter’.

At the same time, Li Zhirui understood why these ghosts could ‘die and resurrect’; there was a peculiar Yin Qi attached externally to the True Spirit.

If aligned with cultivators, it can be termed Spiritual Soul!

Just as a cultivator’s physical body may perish but their Spiritual Soul remains, allowing Soul Possession and rebirth, these ghosts seem to follow the same rules.

Yet their resurrection is much simpler because their bodies are entirely formed of Yin Qi, and as long as the Yin Qi is dense, they can resurrect quickly.

“Is this tribe born from an elevation of the Heavenly Dao, or is there another reason?”

Li Zhirui frowned, his insight suggesting the latter is unlikely, for even Heavenly Immortals cannot master the Creation of Life method.

But deep within, a voice told him that the latter was indeed the true reason!

If they were born from the nurturing of Heaven and Earth, their numbers could not grow so swiftly.

Li Zhirui had just used Divine Sense to survey ten miles around, where over a thousand ghosts could be found in this area!

And given the vastness of the Changli Mountain Range, even if fewer elsewhere, there are tens of thousands here.

Though ghost appearances are yet to be seen in other areas of Shanhai State, how could the vast Primal Spirit Realm have ghosts only in this place?

Moreover, the appearance of ghosts was too abrupt, without any prior signs, truly bizarre.

Collecting his thoughts, Li Zhirui found the closest and most powerful ghost around, its cultivation equivalent to a late-stage Nascent Soul, with fully developed Spiritual Intelligence.

“Where did you come from? What is your purpose? How were you born?”

Even though Li Zhirui did not release his aura, the pressure he naturally carried made its body tremble.

“I don’t know, I know nothing, just woke and appeared with others of my kind here, called the ghost tribe…”

This statement made Li Zhirui frown unconsciously.

Because it fit more with his previous conjecture, these ghosts were not born from the Heavenly Dao, but were man-made!

But how could a method of Creation of Life exist in the Primal Spirit Realm, where existence above Heavenly Immortals is not allowed?

‘Alas!’

Thinking over and over, Li Zhirui still couldn’t find a clue, only feeling that disturbances frequently arise in the Primal Spirit Realm, during troubled times.

An unparalleled catastrophe that has not been seen for ten thousand years ended merely a century ago, yet such strange events occurred again.

“Who is the strongest in your tribe? Who leads?”

Facing life and death, it naturally dared not hide anything, revealing everything it knew.

In the Changli Mountain Range, the ghost tribe consists of over five hundred thousand, with five of the strongest, all possessing Void Refinement cultivation, jointly managing the ghost tribe, calling themselves the five great Ghost Kings!

Furthermore, these five Ghost Kings will not go out to forage but instead have many ghosts under them offer tributes.

Thus, all the ghost tribe knows where the Ghost Kings reside.

Li Zhirui brought it along to the Ghost King Cave, capturing them in one move.

The strengths of these Ghost Kings were very weak, even with Void Refinement cultivation, their true power was far apart, and reputedly due to their formation by gathered Yin Qi, they were extremely afraid of Yang Qi, fire energy, and Vital Energy among other ‘righteous energies’.

Indeed! The ghost tribe feeds on Vital Energy, but when Vital Energy is abundant and flourishing, they dare not approach.