However, it was no thousand-year-old Banyan Tree Demon. It was a Ghost Locust that had lived for at least five thousand years!
Niangniang Rong's true form was nothing more than an utterly ordinary banyan tree.
If Old Ancestor Yellow Springs had not enlightened her, she would likely have lived in a daze on that barren mountain for a few hundred years before withering away. It would have been nearly impossible for her to develop a spirit.
But Ghost Locusts were different.
They were born as spiritual creatures of heaven and earth.
Ghost Locusts grew in places steeped in yin energy and deathly aura. They fed on the energy of death, as well as the corpse water and souls of living beings. They were demonic trees by nature!
The Ghost Locust in the [Soul Nest] had long since reached the King level. It was known as King Youhuai!
Under King Youhuai's command gathered a large number of Soul Path and Ghost Path experts. His faction was enormous, and he was the foremost figure in Qing Province's Soul Path and Ghost Path!
As for this [Lost God], he was merely one of King Youhuai's many subordinates, and not a particularly conspicuous one at that.
[Lost God] was a seventh-tier Great Grandmaster. He cultivated a rather obscure branch of the Soul Path, a legacy known as [Soul Luck].
[Soul Luck], as its name suggested, was a legacy that could increase or diminish a target's fortune by consuming the power of souls.
As the saying went, "First comes fate, second fortune, third feng shui." Fortune was also quite important in this world.
But fortune was fickle and ethereal, difficult to grasp.
Thus, since ancient times, legacies concerning [fortune] had been exceedingly rare.
Among the many schools of demonic cultivation, the [Soul Path] was not