At that moment.
After witnessing Liu Jun's transformation, Jiang Qiao finally understood the true purpose of this building.
To cultivate False Humans!
Of course.
That might only be one of its true purposes.
What were False Humans?
As the name implied, fake humans!
They would kill humans, then replace the original and continue living, imitating every human behavior.
In fact.
Both Vicious Ghosts and their ancestor, the Mountain Ghosts.
Would imitate humans.
Based on Jiang Qiao's current understanding, the Mountain Ghosts might be connected to that Supernatural Source civilization. They were likely some kind of attempt to have the best of both worlds—to possess supernatural abilities while retaining human consciousness.
But in the end, the attempt might have failed.
Of course.
It was also possible that they had succeeded, but their civilization later perished, causing those people to mutate into the species known as Mountain Ghosts.
Eventually, they crawled out of the Abyss.
The Mountain Ghosts were ancient.
So ancient that even they themselves no longer knew where they came from.
But whether they were Mountain Ghosts.
Or Vicious Ghosts.
They were vastly different from living humans.
They had no vital energy!
So no matter how they imitated humans, they could never become human, and no one would mistake them for humans.
But False Humans...
Jiang Qiao looked at the ashes on the ground.
If they completely replaced a living person while retaining his Main Body.
Then things would be entirely different.
There would be no vital energy floating on the surface, nor any Chilly Aura unique to Evil Spirits... As for the Supernatural Aura, others would at most think he was an Awakened or an Evolver who had yet to become Possessed by a Malevolent Ghost.
But in reality.
It was an Evil Spirit through and through!
"Good grief."