Li Shiming released the Heavenly Ghost. Great Power Lu Wei was a Late Stage Great Power, and the strength of his soul was the greatest Li Shiming had ever encountered.
Although Great Power Lu Wei had fallen and his soul energy was dissipating, the soul energy the Heavenly Ghost could absorb was still enough for it to advance.
The moment the Heavenly Ghost emerged, it pounced on Great Power Lu Wei's corpse and swallowed it into its belly in one bite.
It was extremely sensitive to soul energy, and the instant it saw something it could devour, it discovered that the soul energy on Great Power Lu Wei's corpse was of an extraordinarily high quality.
It instinctively sensed how important the soul energy on Great Power Lu Wei's corpse was to it, and it did not want to waste even the slightest bit.
The remaining soul energy of a Late Stage Great Power was devoured by it. Afterward, it spat Great Power Lu Wei's corpse back out, along with a Soul Crystal Ring.
Li Shiming put away the corpse and the Soul Crystal Ring. He did not immediately examine the Soul Crystal Ring, but looked toward the Heavenly Ghost instead.
All along, he had thought the Heavenly Ghost would be the first to advance to Fifth Grade.
That was because the Heavenly Ghost only needed to devour souls to grow, but when it had been in Central Province, it had devoured many powerful souls and still had not successfully advanced. It had only reached the peak of Half-Step Fifth Grade.
Now, after the Heavenly Ghost devoured Great Power Lu Wei's soul energy, the bottleneck blocking its advancement vanished.
The soul energy inside the Heavenly Ghost continuously rose in quality, and it soon broke through Half-Step Fifth Grade and reached the