The Demon Suppression Envoy's Secret

This all sounds complicated.

But from the moment Ling Yun made his move until he killed the Ghost Infant, only a few minutes had passed.

Ma Xiu looked at Ling Yun, who was half-crouching in front of him with a "kind" smile, and couldn't help but swallow. "This young bro... this senior, let's talk properly."

Ling Yun's smile remained unchanged. He reached out and patted Ma Xiu's shoulder. "I still prefer you in that defiant state you were just in. Recover yourself."

Ma Xiu's face stiffened. He forced a smile that was uglier than a cry. "Senior, I... this is truly..."

However, Ling Yun's expression suddenly turned cold. He no longer wanted to waste time. He placed his palm on Ma Xiu's head and said in an unfathomable tone, "I only have one question now: are you... human or an Evil Spirit?"

Hearing Ling Yun's question, Ma Xiu froze on the spot, a "?" slowly forming in his mind.

But seeing Ling Yun's cold eyes and the hand pressing down on his head, he immediately forgot about his pride and shouted urgently, "Human! Human! Senior, of course I'm human!"

In a room that had been temporarily cleared out.

Ling Yun casually leaned back in his chair, holding a somewhat transparent black creature in his hand, playing with it with great interest.

Ma Xiu sat to the side, wanting to speak but hesitating, watching Ling Yun knead his Spirit into various shapes, terrified that the other party might "accidentally" crush it.

Ling Yun naturally didn't know what he was thinking, but even if he did, he probably wouldn't care.

From the information he had extracted from Ma Xiu earlier, he now had a general understanding of some things.

Take this mass that looked like a slime in his hand, for example.

It couldn't exactly be called an Evil Spirit, but it was also undeniably related to Evil Spirits.

If he had to describe it, it was probably a species somewhere between an Evil Spirit and not an Evil Spirit.

According to Ma Xiu's explanation, Evil Spirits were actually manifestations of negative emotions in humans.

For example, ferocity, bloodlust, hatred, and so on.

They were roughly divided into four grades: Mortal, Fiend, Malevolent, and Nightmare. A normal Mortal-Grade Evil Spirit required an eight-star Demon Suppression Envoy or a Spirit Conduit Realm martial artist to deal with.

And this slime was, in its essence, a Mortal-Grade Evil Spirit!

However, it had been suppressed by a Demon Suppression Envoy through some special method, completely suppressing its internal negative emotions and transforming it into a controllable weapon.

This type of weapon was called a "Spirit."

The higher the grade of the Evil Spirit, the greater the difficulty of conversion. Most Demon Suppression Envoys only possessed a "Mortal"-Grade Spirit; a "Fiend"-Grade Spirit was already considered extremely rare.

He had to admit that the person who created this thing was definitely a mad genius.

This way, it not only cleverly increased their combat power but also attracted more Demon Suppression Envoys to actively eliminate Evil Spirits, achieving two goals with one action.

However, everything has two sides.

Although Spirits had many advantages, they also had significant drawbacks.

Firstly, the negative emotions of the Evil Spirit itself were only suppressed, not eliminated.

Under certain special circumstances, such as the host body suffering a severe injury, the suppression might be lost, and the person could be controlled by the Evil Spirit instead.

If they were lucky, they could regain consciousness. If they were unlucky, they would be controlled by the Evil Spirit for life, eventually becoming a lunatic who only knew how to kill.

Demon Suppression Envoys who were corrupted by Evil Spirits like this were called "Demon Spirits."

Compared to Evil Spirits, the harm caused by an out-of-control Demon Spirit could be even greater.

It was said that a high-ranking Demon Suppression Envoy had once turned into a Demon Spirit. By the time he was discovered, the city he was in had already been slaughtered, completely turned into a dead city.

Therefore, the existence of Demon Spirits, once discovered, would inevitably be met with a united attack, with no mercy shown.

In addition to Demon Spirits, there was another group of people who believed that this suppressed Spirit was not the most perfect existence and advocated for directly absorbing complete Evil Spirits.

Their reasoning was not wrong, as the so-called "Spirit" was essentially a weakened version of an Evil Spirit.

Unfortunately, most of these people ended up having their minds corrupted by the Evil Spirits, eventually becoming Demon Spirits.

Of course, there were always a few lucky ones who successfully resisted the control of the Evil Spirits, greatly increasing their own abilities while retaining their sanity.

In desperate situations, they could even choose to actively fuse with the Evil Spirit within them, unleashing terrifying combat power.

This was something that Demon Suppression Envoys who fused with "castrated" Evil Spirits could not achieve.

However, due to prolonged contact with complete Evil Spirits, the minds of these people were inevitably affected, making them more irritable and extreme. Therefore, this method was ultimately abandoned by orthodox Demon Suppression Envoys.

But to this day, there are still many madmen pursuing power who choose this shortcut.

Just like Situ Ying and Bai Ji, whom he encountered before, those two had clearly fused with complete Evil Spirits, becoming beings that were half-human and half-Evil Spirit.

Initially, after hearing this, Ling Yun was quite interested in fusing with Spirits.

But after understanding the various limitations involved, he immediately gave up the idea.

First, to fuse with a Spirit, one had to become a Demon Suppression Envoy, and to become a Demon Suppression Envoy, one needed talent.

The so-called talent was actually a special bloodline that could minimize the influence of Evil Spirits on oneself.

This was determined at birth; if you had it, you had it; if you didn't, you didn't. It couldn't be forced.

However, it's said that if two talented individuals combine, the chances of their offspring inheriting talent increase significantly.

Over time, this situation gradually created a clear boundary between Demon Suppression Envoys and ordinary people.

To maintain the purity of their bloodline, some Demon Suppression Envoys prohibited intermarriage with ordinary people, even forming so-called aristocratic families of Demon Suppression Envoys.

As for those whose predecessors lived such miserable lives, they were clearly the ones without talent.

Furthermore, even if one became a Demon Suppression Envoy, finding a suitable Spirit wasn't easy, and there were also restrictions on the number of Spirits one could fuse with.

Generally, it was considered the limit for a Demon Suppression Envoy to fuse with just one Spirit, and even geniuses wouldn't exceed a few.

This was far from the scene Ling Yun had imagined, where one could summon hundreds or thousands of Spirits with a wave of their hand.

So, Ling Yun thought about it again and decided it didn't matter.

With the system now on his side, even if he didn't have the so-called talent and couldn't become a Demon Suppression Envoy, so what?

As long as he steadfastly walked forward step by step, he was confident that his future achievements would be no worse than anyone else's!

So now the question arises: if he killed this Evil Spirit, which had already been transformed into a Spirit, would it increase his Modification Points?

Ling Yun looked at the black "slime" lying in his palm, his gaze gradually becoming a little dangerous.