A sinister white mist drifted over with a string of eerie cackles. Within it, a white-clad wraith with disheveled hair flickered in and out of view. From a distance, all one could see was the white mist and a faint silhouette within it; the wraith's true form remained hidden.
Lu Xiaotian furrowed his brow. Its methods looked somewhat like those of the Mirage Wolf he had encountered before, but they were not quite the same. The cloud of white mist was in fact enveloping a formidable late-stage Smoke Marsh Ghost King.
The earth continued to tremble. A skeletal giant elephant dozens of zhang tall lumbered forward, its body clad in heavy armor. Two bone tusks, each about a zhang long, jutted from its head. Apart from a pair of enormous, fan-shaped ears, its head bore a striking resemblance to a bone crocodile's.
"This sovereign has heard that several remarkable human experts have emerged in the Moonwatch Cultivation Realm. I came here especially to meet them. Who dares fight this sovereign?"
The Crocodile-Elephant Ghost King's voice rolled for hundreds of miles. Even Nascent Soul Early Stage Cultivators standing nearby felt their eardrums sting. Fortunately, the only ones facing the Ghost King were these Nascent Soul Cultivators. Had Golden Core Cultivators been caught in the sound waves, the consequences would have been severe. Of course, it wasn't only the human cultivators who were affected; the low-ranking ghosts couldn't withstand the vibrations either.
Behind the Crocodile-Elephant Ghost King churned a mass of black clouds. It was You Yitian of the Nethercloud Ghost Clan, a late-stage Ghost King.
Wen Changyun and Ji Qianshui's expressions shifted. The Crocodile-Elephant Ghost King's aura was even more imposing than that of Aodu, the red-eyed Ghost King with protruding elbows. Though only four late-stage Ghost Kings had come, Aodu