"It was time to end this battle, lest trouble grow with delay."
With that, Qin Hao took the Black Fiend Hammers from his Storage Bag.
Staring at Gui Wuya as he charged toward him, Qin Hao gripped the Black Fiend Hammers tightly. Lightning spread from Qin Hao's hands to the hammers.
"Kill you! Kill you! Kill you! Ah!"
The crazed Gui Wuya opened his mouth wide and bit toward Qin Hao.
"Thunderous Eight Trigrams!"
Qin Hao raised the great hammers high. Lightning coiled around his body as he poured all his strength into the hammers. With a roar, he swung them at Gui Wuya's head!
Boom!
Lightning instantly flooded the entire valley!
More than half the mountain collapsed beneath that terrifying force. Gui Wuya's body was smashed straight into pulp. Even his primordial soul had no time to flee before it was blasted into ashes by divine lightning and Qin Hao's brute strength.
Ding! Ghost clan Ghost Spirit killed Obtained 2,000 attribute points
At the same time.
"Captain, look! There was another explosion! And that lightning shooting into the sky—my goodness, what kind of people were fighting? That was way too outrageous!"
Ji Ni stared ahead, dumbfounded.
"It must be Qin Hao. Qin Hao is still alive. We need to go support him!"
The moment Bai Ling saw the lightning, he was certain it was Qin Hao. He had personally watched Qin Hao awaken lightning powers.
Lin Ye looked at the scene before him in astonishment. He found it hard to imagine that the youth Bai Ling had mentioned had caused all this.
"Don't stop. Move!"
Lin Ye did not linger and continued onward.
Before long, they reached their destination.
All they could see was dust filling the sky. They could not make out anything inside the valley.
"Th-this is way too outrageous."
Looking at the valley that had been utterly destroyed, Ji Ni even began to stammer.
"Careful! Someone's coming out!"
At that moment, Li Zhi suddenly noticed something.
A figure slowly emerged from the smoke.
The moment he spoke, everyone looked ahead nervously.
When the figure finally stepped out of the smoke, they saw a baby-faced youth. He was just a little taller and sturdier than expected.
Qin Hao had just finished dealing with Gui Wuya and was about to leave when he noticed four people appearing in the valley.
As he drew closer and saw that it was Bai Ling, who had returned after leaving, he looked at him in confusion and asked,
"Bai Ling, why did you come back?"
"Qin Hao, you're really okay! How was it? Where's that Ghost Spirit?"
Seeing that Qin Hao was unharmed, Bai Ling let out a breath of relief and hurriedly asked.
Lin Ye and the others quietly sized up the youth before them. The aura radiating from his body made it hard to breathe. The youth before them felt less like a human and more like an ancient beast.
"Oh, I already killed that guy. It took quite a bit of effort. The Heavenly Dragon Guard should give some kind of reward, right?"
Qin Hao did not hide it. Killing a ghost creature came with a reward.
"Hehe, kid, you're amazing."
Hearing that Qin Hao had dealt with the ghost creature, Bai Ling jumped up and patted Qin Hao on the shoulder.
Qin Hao then looked toward Lin Ye and the other three.
"Uh, who are you people?"
Qin Hao had seen Lin Ye and the others as soon as he came out, but he had been busy dealing with Bai Ling and had not paid them any attention.
"Hello. I'm also from the Heavenly Dragon Guard. I'm Lin Ye, captain of this squad."
"Hello, I'm Qin Hao. I suppose I count as part of the Heavenly Dragon Guard too."
Qin Hao shook hands with Lin Ye as they introduced themselves.
"Li Zhi."
Li Zhi was as cold and brief as ever.
"Hello, hello. My name is Ji Ni."
Ji Ni looked nervous, terrified that Qin Hao might crush him to death.
"Chicken you?"
Hearing that the person before him was named "Chicken You," Qin Hao could no longer stay calm!
It was as if he had run into an old acquaintance.
"You've heard of me?"
Ji Ni looked at Qin Hao in confusion. Was he actually that famous?
"Hahaha, it's nothing. Hearing that name just reminded me of an old acquaintance."
Qin Hao did not pursue the matter further.
Lin Ye, standing nearby, paid no attention to that. Instead, he looked at Qin Hao seriously.
"You really killed that Ghost Spirit?"
"Yeah. Part of its corpse is still over there." Qin Hao nodded and pointed toward the depths of the valley.
Hearing this, Lin Ye and the others ran toward Gui Wuya's corpse.
"Hey, you guys!" Bai Ling did not follow them.
Soon, they arrived beside a huge pit over a hundred meters wide and more than ten meters deep.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. That battle was too terrifying. This almost wiped out the whole valley, didn't it?" Ji Ni clicked his tongue at the sight before him.
Lin Ye was also somewhat shocked. This destructive power was far too outrageous.
After coming back to his senses, he inspected the area around the pit. At last, he spotted something at its center.
"It's over there!"
With that, he quickly ran toward the object.
A mangled, dark-red corpse appeared before them.
"Damn, it was smashed into mush. That was way too brutal." Seeing the Ghost Spirit reduced to pulp, Ji Ni frowned in disgust and complained.
Lin Ye crouched down and examined it carefully. The more he looked, the more shocked he became, because the ghost creature before him was completely different from the Ghost Spirits they had encountered before.
This corpse was not human at all, but the corpse of some unknown creature. Earlier, Bai Ling had mentioned that it possessed intelligence, and Lin Ye had found that strange.
Ghost creatures were humans whose bodies had been eroded by Killing intent for unknown reasons, completely consumed by it until they became things without intelligence.
There was another type: Ghost cultivators. Ghost cultivators were people who cultivated using Killing intent and unorthodox methods. Though they cultivated Killing intent, they were still humans in essence. Their ultimate goal, however, was to become ghost gods.
But the creature before them did not possess a human body. Its body was far tougher than a human's. A scorched smell lingered in the air, and the Killing intent had been completely dispersed. It had likely been scattered by Qin Hao's lightning.
Lin Ye carefully analyzed the corpse before him.
"Are you done yet?"
Just as Lin Ye sank into thought, Qin Hao's voice shattered the silence.
Lin Ye came back to his senses.
"Qin Hao, Bai Ling and the others said that you spoke with the Ghost Spirit?"
After pondering for a moment, Lin Ye looked at Qin Hao with a grave expression and asked.
"Yeah. What's wrong? Is there a problem?"
Qin Hao did not understand why Lin Ye was asking.
"Qin Hao, ghost creatures do not possess high intelligence. They cannot communicate normally with people."
Bai Ling spoke from the side.
Hearing that, Qin Hao seemed to realize something as well. When the system had given its prompt, and when Gui Wuya had spoken, both had referred to the Ghost clan rather than ghost creatures.
Qin Hao pondered for a while. "I think I heard that guy say his race was called the Ghost clan!"
"And he possessed high intelligence. He even had a name."
Just as Qin Hao finished speaking, a voice came from afar.
"That's right! They are indeed not ghost creatures, but the Ghost clan!"
A white-haired old man descended from the sky and slowly landed beside Qin Hao and the others. A woman stood at his side.
The moment Ji Ni saw the woman, his face lit up with joy.
"Big Sis, why did you only get here now?"
Lin Ye smiled when he saw the woman.
"Long Mei, you're here."
However, when they saw the old man beside her, everyone bowed in greeting.
"Greetings, Elder Yang!"
"Greetings, Elder!"
"Greetings, Elder!"
Bai Ling and the others called out as well.
Seeing this, Qin Hao followed suit.
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