Chen Fei looked up at the scene outside the city, his brow slightly furrowed. The situation did not look optimistic.
It was not that the Rain Clan had greatly increased in strength after all transforming into wraiths. From Chen Fei's earlier clash with Gong Jingxiu, the Rain Clan's transformation into wraiths had merely added contamination to the nature of their power.
But that contamination was not especially formidable. After all, the Rain Clan had to preserve their Spiritual Wisdom within their souls, making them somewhat different from completely mindless wraiths.
What truly made Xian City's situation perilous was the sheer number of wraiths that had followed the Rain Clan here. Even with reinforcements from cultivators of other regions, the pressure remained immense.
Moreover, the wraiths' strange traits directly clashed against a cultivator's soul. When injured, they would even rebound part of the soul damage. Even if a cultivator gained the upper hand at first, by the time they killed the wraith, they would already be seriously wounded.
If their strength was evenly matched, the outcome would be even worse. They might ultimately be forcibly dragged into mutual destruction by the wraith.
In just that brief span of time, the vast majority of Heaven Opening Realm cultivators who had died outside the city had been killed by wraiths. Only a small portion had truly died at the Rain Clan's hands.
These wraiths possessed intelligence, and intelligence absolutely no weaker than that of cultivators. Yet wraiths were easily swayed by their own murderous impulses, especially when they encountered living beings from the material realm.
The various Negative Energies within the Heart Anomaly Realm had originally been transmitted from the material realm. Unfulfilled desires, the pain of parting from those one loved—the more intense the emotions, the more easily they entered the Heart