Essence Transformation

With doubts crowding his mind, Li Xiuluo had even less reason to give up. Following the Ghost Master's aura, he gave chase at full speed.

Both the Ghost Master and Li Xiuluo possessed Yin Bodies. Their pursuit was astonishingly swift; in less than half an incense stick's time, they had flown more than a hundred li.

Two wisps of smoke streaked west, crossing mountain mists and passing through dense woods before finally reaching an endless black marsh.

Li Xiuluo watched as a wisp of the Ghost Master's split soul slipped into a vast mound at the marsh's center, and abruptly halted.

The huge mound was tangled in dense water plants, with only a shallow arc of its spherical form exposed. Most of the enormous sphere lay submerged in the marsh. Judging by the small portion visible, the buried sphere had to be a massive thing, at least ten zhang in diameter.

The moment the Ghost Master's split soul entered it, the enormous mound changed abruptly.

Li Xiuluo even sensed that the vast marsh resembled a giant, with the sphere serving as its heart. As the sphere throbbed, the giant's body suddenly clenched tight.

With that violent contraction, Li Xiuluo felt boundless blood qi rapidly spreading through the air. He had never witnessed such terrifying blood qi. Even slaughtering thousands of people could never produce blood qi this dense.

The concentrated blood qi even carried an intense, masculine force, making him—at the Ghost King Realm—feel acutely uncomfortable. He couldn't help rising higher into the air.

That fierce throbbing continued for about half an incense stick's time. Then, with a deafening boom, the entire black marsh erupted in endless waves, hurling foul-smelling sludge into the sky.

A horrifying scene unfolded. The boundless black marsh had been half foul black mud and half