At this moment.
A mysterious Dharma seal surged forth from within the Ghost Immortal Lamp, hovering in the air before ultimately transforming into an enormous transparent barrier that enveloped the surrounding hundred zhang. It swiftly concealed its aura and merged into the void.
Even Ling Pengyun, a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator, found it difficult to detect the existence of that light barrier with his divine sense.
Only by relying on superior investigative divine abilities could one detect it.
He even detected within it a trace of the aura of providence.
"A breath-concealing technique specifically meant to hide providence?"
"If so, this light barrier is rather mysterious indeed."
Ling Pengyun secretly thought.
At that moment, the Ghost Immortal Lamp Artifact Spirit spoke.
"Little Friend Ling, Little Friend Yan."
"That secret realm was once a ghost-nurturing ground maintained by one of our sect's branches here in the Central Province Cultivation World."
"Although most of the spirit ghosts within were taken away by that branch of our sect more than a hundred thousand years ago, some spirit ghosts were still left behind as a backup plan, in case the worst should happen."
"Yet after so much time had passed, that batch of spirit ghosts had long since died. They were extremely clever, and when they saw that the other evil ghosts that had left the secret realm never returned, crooked thoughts began to stir within them. At the time, our sect had not left many disciples behind to guard the secret realm, which gave them their chance."
"In the end, risking the backlash of the restrictions, they slaughtered every disciple our sect had stationed there and dissolved all the special restrictions our sect had placed throughout those ghost-nurturing grounds."
"As a result, even though I possess all of the Ghost Immortal Sect's