Half an hour later, Qin Fengming released Jing Li without killing him.
From Jing Li's account, Qin Fengming understood the purpose behind the various forces establishing Soul Gardens: to collect mindless ghosts scattered throughout areas where cultivators lived.
These ghosts had no intelligence and were savage and terrifying. They posed a tremendous threat to the low-level cultivators born in the Sunset Soul Ghost Domain. Powerful ghosts could easily slaughter an entire cultivator village.
This was the same principle as the ferocious beasts in the living environments of cultivators in the Three Realms—cultivators had to take action and kill them.
However, the ghosts in the Ghost Domain were of little use to soul cultivators, and killing them would incur karmic consequences. Therefore, the various forces established Soul Gardens to collect these ghosts, gather them together, and then exile them.
The sects naturally would not perform such laborious tasks for no reason and without any benefit. The reason they collected ghosts was that some of them might awaken their intelligence and become soul cultivators.
The ghosts capable of awakening their intelligence were all targets the various forces wanted to recruit into their sects. That was because those ghosts were highly likely to be the reborn essence souls of cultivators from the Three Realms who had fallen. Once their intelligence awakened, they would carry innate gifts, and whether in cultivation or strength, the heights they reached would surpass those of cultivators born in the Ghost Domain.
Qin Fengming had no particular opinion of Soul Gardens. They were unique to the Ghost Domain. Even knowing that Lishan Soul Garden was connected to the Netherworld Sea and that every few years it exiled batches of ghosts numbering as many as several hundred thousand, he still could not do anything to Lishan Soul Garden.
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