"Greetings, everyone!"
Gu Yingzhi looked at the figures on the surrounding mountains, cupped his hands in salute, then his body turned into a phantom as he headed toward the top of the stairs.
"The Formless Ghost Shadow Step, one of the Twelfth-Order Core Inheritances of the Formless Devil Palace, was the first art Gu Yingzhi cultivated to its peak," Yu Fangqiu explained from the side.
"The form scatters, yet the spirit does not; shadows run wild, while the heart observes itself. Treading the void like windblown catkins, a thousand forms return to one remnant."
Xing Shengjie murmured the line, then said:
"Rumor has it that this is the general principle of the Formless Ghost Shadow Step. If this art is cultivated to its peak, black spots will grow on the soles of the feet, gradually cracking like ghost claws. It will cause the demonic energy inside a Primal Cultivator to surge, requiring them to devour cultivators to suppress the backlash."
"Devour cultivators?" Chen Fei's brows shifted slightly.
"That was in the past. Ever since we allied with the Primal Cultivators, the disciples of the Formless Devil Palace naturally can't do that anymore. I heard they've already used other methods to suppress the demonic energy within their bodies," Yu Fangqiu said in a low voice.
Chen Fei nodded and looked at Gu Yingzhi, who was climbing toward the summit.
For the first half of the way, Gu Yingzhi could be said to have passed in the blink of an eye. Although Array Patterns flashed across the Formless Ladder, they failed to slow Gu Yingzhi's speed in the slightest.
But just after the halfway point, ripples rose across the Formless Ladder, and the power contained within instantly increased. Gu Yingzhi's body, which had transformed into a phantom, was suddenly revealed.
"For the