The Balance of Power Shifted

Fakers, you filthy fakers.

Inside the Chaos Pagoda, the female-voiced artifact spirit was muttering nonstop. After all, there was no need for Heavenly Spirit Stones to refine Top Grade Spirit Ghosts. Lei Dong had communicated with the Chaos Pagoda's artifact spirit several times since merging with it, but for some reason, she had never been willing to cooperate with him. In a fit of anger, Lei Dong had used his powerful divine sense to seal her away in a corner of the Chaos Pagoda for the time being, so she wouldn't fight him for control of it.

Though she could sense the outside world, she couldn't do anything to affect it. She had seen quite a lot during Lei Dong's journey. At the very least, she knew that this "master" of hers looked honest and straightforward on the surface, and seemed to respect his elders, but was actually devious to the core. His greatest talent was tricking people.

But no matter how much the Chaos Pagoda's artifact spirit grumbled, it couldn't change how shocked the Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Evil Phoenix were.

To the Netherworld Ghost Emperor, creating Top Grade Spirit Ghosts was simply inconceivable. In his thousands of years of life, he had tried many different methods to improve the Spiritual Roots of ordinary Spirit Ghosts, but had failed every time. Eventually, he had stopped believing it was possible to enhance a Spirit Ghost's Spiritual Root. At least, no ordinary method could do it. Perhaps it would take an enormous price.

Yet now Lei Dong had dropped this astonishing news. How could the Netherworld Ghost Emperor not be shocked? What a terrifying achievement it would be to create Top Grade Spirit Ghosts! If he possessed an endless supply of them and formed an immensely powerful army of ghosts, then