After asking around.
He learned that the so-called mountain ghosts were indeed the same evil spirits as the mountain ghosts of the later supernatural world.
But mountain ghosts were not transformed evolvers.
Mountain ghosts were the ancestors of vicious ghosts, and were rarely seen in the supernatural world anymore.
Back in their homeland, however, there had been quite a few of them.
The first mountain ghosts.
Had been living people who became corrupted while exploring the sea of clouds at the outer edge of the star system. Later, when horrors manifested in the Abyss, the number of mountain ghosts in the world grew ever greater.
And they could never be completely eradicated.
Later, their homeland underwent a drastic upheaval. The great terror emerged from the Abyss, and after years of contamination, the red moon could no longer hold it back. When the escape plan was hastily put into action, quite a few mountain ghosts left along with them.
Countless survivors were left along the way.
The mountain ghosts on Fengyin Mountain had remained in the universe along with this world back then.
Over the years.
People had also tried to enter the mountain and wipe them out.
At first, they had been fairly successful.
But once the surviving mountain ghosts fled deeper into Fengyin Mountain, exterminating them became difficult.
This world had no awakened.
Nor did its people follow the path of evolvers.
They practiced the most ancient "spirit sacrifice" method.
They worshipped deities.
Then received power from those deities, becoming what they called "ghost-carriers."
This method had its advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage was that they did not need to advance through the ranks themselves.
In essence.
The spirit sacrifice method was the incense and fire method.
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