Time often waited for no one.
As Lu Yang pondered, the darkness surrounding the yellow-robed old man in the distance had already spread to his side, carrying intense corrosive power.
Lu Yang raised his head and studied the other party with great interest.
"So this is a Witch Ghost?"
The Witch Ghost Sect had been a great ancient demonic sect. In those days, every Witch Ghost Sect disciple would refine a Lifebound Ability Witch Ghost as the foundation of their future cultivation.
However, when the Golden Core Sword Qi appeared, the Witch Ghost Sect was utterly exterminated. Without cultivators to control them, these Witch Ghosts began wandering the secret realm. Based on the strength of the cultivators they had belonged to in life, they were divided into White-Clad Ghosts, Yellow-Clad Ghosts, Black-Clad Ghosts, and the most vicious of all, Red-Clad Ghosts.
As for the living people within the secret realm, their origins were equally complicated.
Some of their ancestors had been servants raised by the Witch Ghost Sect, while others had been disciples who decisively crippled their own cultivation when disaster befell the sect.
That was because cultivation was forbidden within the secret realm.
Since the Golden Core Sword Qi sought to destroy the Witch Ghost Sect's inheritance, anyone who stepped onto the path of cultivation—even someone at Qi Refining First Layer—would be slain by the Sword Qi.
Lu Yang was an outsider, one of the targets the Sword Qi had been "baited" for, which was why he had not been killed the instant he entered the secret realm. But there was not much difference, really. So long as the Sword Qi did not disperse, this incarnation of his could not leave the secret realm. That was scarcely different from being dead.
The Witch Ghost Sect's fate, meanwhile, was utterly