"Hmph. So what if you entered the Inheritance Secret Realm? You'll have to come back out eventually. Once I shroud this place in demonic aura, the moment you emerge will be the moment you die!" Old Man Corpse of Heaven calmed down and thought viciously.
At the same time, he produced a section of pitch-black tree root with a flip of his hand and wrote something upon it. His aged, withered face, filled with the aura of death, immediately twisted into a sinister grin.
A thousand miles away, at White Bone Mountain, in the Banyan Forest.
The Black-haired, Black-eyed Girl sat on a swing woven from gnarled vines, idly swaying.
Suddenly, she sensed something. A section of vine slowly rose into the air and hovered before her.
"That bastard Blood Demon really was deceiving me. So, in that case, he deserved to die in the battle at Tianning Temple." The girl's voice was clear and sweet as a silver bell, entirely devoid of emotion. Yet the words that came from her lips sent a chill to the bone.
"Where are the Nine Ghosts?"
In the blink of an eye, a ghostly shadow emerged from the soil beneath the tree and dropped to one knee below the swing.
Powerful waves of Soul Power rolled off him. This was the strength one could only gain after devouring countless souls.
A thick layer of black mist shrouded his body.
Within the mist, countless wisps of black smoke took the form of skulls, screaming in agony and misery.
His soul had condensed into a tangible human form, and the power radiating from him was even stronger than Old Man Corpse of Heaven's.
This demon was Niangniang Rong's foremost subordinate, the Nine Ghosts.
"Jiu Gui" was the name Niangniang Rong had given him. In the