Demon Cloud Forest was teeming with exotic beasts, but that did not mean everything in it was an exotic beast.
Take the ghosts and monsters of Yin Dragon Pool, for instance. They were another form of life entirely, distinct from exotic beasts.
All things possessed spirits, and spirits could be good or evil.
Good spirits were gentle. They could nurture treasures, guard homes, and bring fortune.
Evil spirits were fierce, killing and setting fires, committing every evil imaginable.
The ghosts and monsters before them were a type of evil spirit—a special energy form known as spirit bodies.
Spirit bodies were elusive and ever-changing, sometimes incorporeal and sometimes tangible. Not only could they condense themselves for attacks, they also contained special powers tied to emotions and the mind.
To ordinary people, evil spirits were truly unsolvable existences. Even cultivators who could harness the spiritual energy of heaven and earth feared them greatly.
There was no helping it. Because of the unique nature of spirit bodies, an evil spirit at the Profound Body Sixth Layer could potentially wear a Profound Body Ninth Layer cultivator to death.
Ji Yinyin had originally been terrified of ghosts, but now that An Bulang had transformed into the One Palm Immortal, dealing with any ghost or monster took no more than a single slap. It gave her an enormous sense of security, and even while walking through the ghost-haunted Yin Dragon Pool, she did not feel quite so afraid.
Master really was the most perfect man under heaven. How could there be such a perfect man in this world? Ji Yinyin followed closely behind An Bulang as they moved onward, and as she looked at the man's sharply defined profile, her flawless pretty face flushed crimson again.
As she thought this, she had already flung the matter