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The two men were shrouded in black mist from head to toe, their two pairs of faintly glowing green eyes fixed tightly on Lin Ye and the others.

Seeing their appearance, Lin Ye recognized them at a glance.

"Ghost cultivators?" Lin Ye blurted out.

"So it really was you rats stirring up trouble."

"Kehehehe, you should stay here." With that, they charged at Lin Ye and the others.

However, Lin Ye did not make a move. He merely watched quietly.

In the blink of an eye, Li Zhi swiftly drew his sword and walked toward the two men.

These two Ghost cultivators radiated a bone-chilling aura. Both erupted with the presence of the Core Formation realm, clearly no easy opponents.

The taller one held a long iron chain sickle, while the shorter one wielded a pair of sharp Bone hammers. They pressed forward step by step, black mist churning around them as though it would swallow Li Zhi and the others whole. Li Zhi's gaze was firm, without the slightest trace of fear.

"Both of them are in the Core Formation realm?" Sensing the two Ghost cultivators' auras, Gao Hu immediately discerned their cultivation.

"Captain Lin, aren't you going to help?" Seeing that only Li Zhi had stepped forward, Gao Hu was somewhat puzzled. Wouldn't it be faster for two people to deal with the opponents before them together?

"No need. Li Zhi alone can handle them." Lin Ye made no unnecessary movements and merely watched quietly, telling Gao Hu not to worry.

Hearing this, Gao Hu said nothing more and simply watched Li Zhi's duel with the Ghost cultivators from the side.

The two Ghost cultivators, one tall and one short, looked at Li Zhi, cruel smiles appearing on their lips.

"Keheh, damn it! You actually dare look down on us brothers! Sixth Brother, kill him!" Seeing that Lin Ye's group had sent only one person to face the two of them, the Ghost cultivators flew into a rage.

Upon hearing his brother give the order, the tall Ghost cultivator did not hesitate in the slightest and rushed forward with his sickle.

Li Zhi drew the longsword at his waist, its blade flashing with a fierce gleam. A great battle was about to erupt, and even the surrounding air seemed to freeze.

Suddenly, the tall Ghost cultivator launched his attack. His sickle tore through the air with a howling wind as it slashed toward Li Zhi. Li Zhi leaped aside and avoided the blow.

At the same time, his longsword shot forth like a spirit serpent leaving its burrow, stabbing straight at the tall Ghost cultivator's chest. The tall Ghost cultivator tried to retreat in terror, but it was already too late. The sword tip pierced through his body.

The short Ghost cultivator flew into a rage at the sight. His bone hammer smashed heavily into the ground, instantly cracking it open with a long fissure. Borrowing the force of that strike, he lunged fiercely at Li Zhi.

Yet Li Zhi's figure drifted like the wind, elusive and impossible to grasp. The longsword in his hand swung again and again, every strike filled with strength and skill.

The short Ghost cultivator's attacks missed time after time, while Li Zhi's longsword remained pressed close to him. Suddenly, Li Zhi's sword carved a dazzling arc through the air and precisely sliced open the short Ghost cultivator's throat. The short Ghost cultivator's body stiffened for a moment before crashing to the ground.

"Ugh, ugh, ugh... How is that possible? How could he be this strong?" the short Ghost cultivator said unwillingly as he fell.

After the battle ended, Li Zhi gently wiped the blood from his longsword.

"So strong!" Seeing Li Zhi dispose of the two Ghost cultivators in merely a few exchanges, Gao Hu stared at Lin Ye and the others in shock.

They knew Li Zhi, Lin Ye, and the others. Like them, they were all Human level Heavenly Dragon Guards, but Lin Ye's team was said to be the strongest Human level Heavenly Dragon Guard squad.

Their own team only had Captain Zhong Li Dao in the Core Formation realm, while Lin Ye's team had four people, with both Captain Lin Ye and Li Zhi being in the Core Formation realm.

He had known that a team with two Core Formation cultivators would be strong, but he had never imagined they would be this strong. Two Core Formation Ghost cultivators had actually been dealt with effortlessly by Li Zhi alone.

Seeing that Li Zhi had finished, Lin Ye slowly stepped forward and patted Li Zhi on the shoulder, signaling for him to leave.

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Seeing that the captain was preparing to leave, Ji Ni hurriedly followed. "Hey! Wait for me! Why did you only pat him and not me?"

Seeing Lin Ye and the others leave, Bai Ling thought for a moment before immediately getting up and running toward the valley. Even as she ran, she did not forget to call out to Gao Hu and the others. "Gao Hu, I'm going to help them. You two stay here. I'll be back in no time."

Elsewhere.

Five figures shrouded in black mist gathered in a circle.

"How could this be?! Fifth Brother's and Sixth Brother's Lamp tokens have gone out!" A Ghost cultivator dressed in black robes and radiating Killing intent from head to toe turned pale with shock when he saw the two extinguished Lamp tokens hanging on the wall.

"It seems some experts from the Heavenly Dragon Guard have arrived. Sixth Brother and Seventh Brother must have fallen at their hands," a figure appeared nearby and said gloomily.

"Hmph! What useless trash. They couldn't even deal with Human level Heavenly Dragon Guards and were killed instead. Keeping them alive would only waste food!" one person mocked.

"Sixth Brother and Seventh Brother weren't weak either. We sent two Core Formation cultivators to deal with Human level Heavenly Dragon Guards, yet something unexpected happened. Could they have encountered Earthly level guards?"

"Earthly level? Would a place this godforsaken have Earthly level guards?"

"I investigated. Only a few Heavenly Dragon Guards are active in this little county, and among them, there is only one person capable of killing Sixth Brother and the others!"

"That brat! The wound from the sword he gave me back then is still throbbing with pain." One of them spoke through gritted teeth.

"It's that man named Lin Ye, isn't it? I never expected him to come here too, and he is also at the Ghost Nest. Kehehe, then we can use my lord's hand to wipe them out!"

The old man at the head spoke slowly, his tone filled with coldness.

"That is a good idea, but Boss, won't this interfere with the plan? If those above blame us..."

One of them said worriedly.

"Don't worry. They are still too weak to affect my lords' revival."

"Come, let us welcome my lords' revival!"

"Kehehehe, just thinking about it makes me happy. I'll torture that bastard to death!"

After saying that, the figures slowly vanished from where they stood.

At this moment, several figures were rapidly drawing close to Qin Hao's location.

Bai Ling was following beside Lin Ye.

"Oh, so you're saying Qin Hao can't cultivate, but he is a Body refining martial artist?" Lin Ye processed Bai Ling's information as he hurried along.

The news shocked him greatly. A teenager barely in his teens had actually relied solely on the power of his physical body to instantly kill a fourth tier ghost. It was impossible not to be astonished.

Since when had eleven- or twelve-year-old children become so freakishly strong?

"And Qin Hao may have awakened some sort of physique or bloodline. We were right there when he awakened," Bai Ling hurriedly added.

Upon hearing this second piece of news, even the normally cold Li Zhi beside them could not remain composed. He spoke two words. "A genius."

"He truly is a genius. A youth so richly endowed by nature cannot be allowed to fall in a ghostly place like this."

After saying that, Lin Ye and the others circulated their true qi and accelerated, racing toward the valley at full speed.