Upper Grade Ghost Soldier
Several days later, Lei Dong set out again to scour the land for Yin Souls and Inferior Ghosts.
There was no other reason. After pondering it for a long time, Lei Dong still felt that his sole and greatest advantage lay in that extraordinary Soul Devouring Pagoda. If he wanted to increase his means of survival, he would have to make plans around the Soul Devouring Pagoda. His three Middle Grade Ghost Soldiers had decent aptitude. Nurtured in the Soul Nurturing Pagoda, their eventual rate of growth would be no slower than his own. With careful cultivation, they might even surpass him by a level or two.
But the problem was that with this setup, he would certainly have a great advantage against ordinary cultivators of the same level, or even those who were relatively exceptional. But when facing truly formidable opponents, just three Ghost Soldiers with Middle Grade aptitude would be somewhat inadequate.
Back then, Myriad Ghost Ancestor had gained an advantage by relying on a single Top Grade Spirit Ghost, and ultimately had taken step after step along the Golden Core Path. But that was not solely thanks to the Top Grade Spirit Ghost. The Ancestor's own aptitude was extraordinary too, at least no worse than Zuo Chao's current aptitude, which could be called upper-tier.
Among his fellow disciples, Lei Dong's aptitude was merely above average. If the extra resources Myriad Ghost Ancestor had gained through his Top Grade Spirit Ghost had gone to Zuo Chao, then perhaps Zuo Chao could have entered the Golden Core Realm without trouble. But Lei Dong could not. The farther one cultivated, the greater the difference made by even the slightest disparity in aptitude. What was more, Lei Dong's aptitude fell far short of Zuo Chao's, which was