Inside the Evil-Punishing Hall, Mingcang and the other five Divine Bridge Realm cultivators looked grim. The greater the origins of the Evil Spirits here, and the more they were entangled with, the harder it would be for them to escape alive!
"To put it simply, Evil Spirits may be seen as Soul Ghosts left behind after a world perishes. Just as living beings, driven by obsessions in their hearts before death, turn into vengeful ghosts. Thus, most Evil Spirits contain a trace of Dao rhyme concerning crossing calamities and resolving misfortune, transcending life and death, and pursuing eternity. Yet in the eyes of cultivators like us, such things and such Dao rhyme are grotesque and twisted!"
The Evil Spirit of the Floating Immortal Mountain, for instance, must have formed from the lingering resentment and residual rhyme of a world where Buddhist Dao once flourished after its destruction. By chance, there was a Buddhist-demonic "pure land" upon the Sea of Buried Immortals, formed after a compassionate Buddhist cultivator and a Great Heavenly Demon perished together. Both sacred and foul, it served as the medium through which the Evil Spirit descended.
To see or sense this Evil Spirit was to fall into it and be forcibly "converted" into part of that Buddhist temple's pure land. But was that not a kind of "transcendence" as well?
Yuan Chengshan, the former master of the Immortal Welcoming Hall, and the Hanged Ghost Demon Soul General Shen Mo had sent to investigate had both become "Buddha's sons" seated upon Lotus Platforms. In the eyes of cultivators, they had naturally perished, unable even to enter reincarnation. Yet from another perspective, even the Wraith Realm found it difficult to completely erase the Evil Spirit's existence. It was almost as imperishable as the Mysterious Yellow Immortal Realm.
Even after