"Spirit entity detected. Meets capture conditions."
As the Heavens Reincarnation System's alert sounded, the Yin God that had suddenly appeared melted away like snowflakes and was drawn into Shi Lan's body, without raising so much as a ripple.
Shi Lan glanced down at the hollow below, strewn with bones and flesh. She raised a hand and drew over large chunks of earth and stone, burying the place. Then she carved array patterns into the ground to suppress the baleful aura there, preventing more evil beings from taking shape.
This Yin God's cultivation was no weak thing. Judging by the scattered corpses, cultivators of the Primordial Spirit realm had once perished here. Without the system, the outcome would have been hard to predict.
"Let's go."
Shi Lan called to Tian Bai, then continued on foot toward the distant horizon.
Tian Bai answered, her spirits low. She had wanted to take her true form and spare Shi Lan the weariness of traveling, but Shi Lan had refused.
Ever since taking human form, she felt that the distance between her and her lord had only grown.
It hadn't been like this before. Her lord had even held her from time to time...
A sense of crisis filled Tian Bai's heart. She felt as if she were always teetering on the edge of losing her usefulness.
This barren land was far too vast. Shi Lan had traveled tens of thousands of miles and still hadn't seen its limits. Along the way, she encountered several more Yin Gods, each more terrifying than the last.
One of them was a little girl who looked no older than six. When Shi Lan first saw her, her eyes were closed. But the moment Shi Lan drew a little closer, the girl's eyes snapped open. Her sockets were