Spirit Ghost Mutation!

Just as Song Shuhang was seeking help from Senior White, the energy of the 'Five-Element Spirit-Constructing Altar' was completely depleted!

Freed from the constraints of the formation, the Spirit Ghost broke free!

Normally, once the 'Ghost Dragon Saliva' on the formation is exhausted, the Spirit Ghost should be pulled back to the 'Soul-Sealing Ice Pearl'. But now, the Spirit Ghost has undergone some strange change; without the support of the 'Ghost Dragon Saliva', it is still able to maintain its own form!

After breaking free of the formation, the Spirit Ghost roared and charged viciously at Song Shuhang! It clearly remembered that this human had cruelly tortured it with the formation, and it had torn this human to pieces!

Facing the menacing Spirit Ghost, Song Shuhang remained calm. He clenched his right fist and delivered a powerful punch to meet the Spirit Ghost's attack. "Basic Fist Technique, Number One!"

The Spirit Ghost roared and met the attack with a heavy punch, devoid of any fancy moves.

Boom! The two sides clashed head-on!

Song Shuhang was so shocked that he staggered back seven or eight steps before regaining his balance; while Spirit Ghost only tilted slightly backward, showing a significant difference in strength between the two.

Song Shuhang rubbed his fists, staring intently at the Spirit Ghost.

"Roar!" The Spirit Ghost howled again, its figure moving like an arrow released from a bow, its right claw gleaming coldly as it reached out to grab Song Shuhang.

At this moment, Venerable White made his move, lightly pointing his finger. "Go."

The small sword of spiritual energy floating above Song Shuhang moved slightly, and a sword aura slashed directly at the Spirit Ghost.

The charging Spirit Ghost was startled and immediately raised its Golden Buckler to meet the sword energy.

Swoosh! The sword energy struck the Golden Buckler.

The sturdy little shield was sliced in half as easily as paper. Then, the remaining force of the sword energy struck the Spirit Ghost, sending it flying backward.

While still in mid-air, the Spirit Ghost let out a scream, and ceramic-like cracks appeared on its body.

The injuries are extremely serious!

This was only because Venerable White suppressed the power of his sword energy to the greatest extent possible; otherwise, he could have easily shredded the Spirit Ghost into pieces with a single casual strike!

After the Spirit Ghost landed, it let out a terrified and painful scream.

It looked at Venerable White in terror. The sword strike it had just received made it realize how terrifying the other party was, so it decisively chose to flee—it rolled on the spot, struggled to get up, and headfirst towards the window.

Venerable White smiled slightly.

Then, the sword energy that had pierced the Spirit Ghost's body exploded.

The Spirit Ghost, which had only managed to escape two steps, collapsed to the ground again. This time, it didn't even have the strength to get up.

The Spirit Ghost was terrified, desperately trying to heal its internal injuries and suppress the damage from the sword energy.

During the healing process, his spirit body shrank smaller and smaller—this was because its own energy was insufficient, and it could only dissolve its own spirit body to heal the sword wounds on its body.

After the sword wounds on his body healed... the Spirit Ghost was only the size of a fist left.

"Huh?" Venerable White exclaimed in confusion. Even if Mid-Rank Spirit Ghost is severely injured, it's impossible for it to shrink to the size of a fist.

Could it be that this Spirit Ghost absorbed the energy fragments from when the 'green-robed rogue cultivator' Dissolution into the Dao, causing it to mutate?

No! The transformation of Spirit Ghost isn't that easy.

There must be some reasons that even he is unaware of!

The Venerable White stepped forward and reached out to press his hand against the Spirit Ghost that had shrunk to the size of a fist.

The Spirit Ghost tried to escape, but the Venerable White's slender hand seemed to transform into a world, trapping it within.

At the same time, Venerable White's spiritual power was transformed into an identification spell, scanning the Spirit Ghost's body.

After scanning the Spirit Ghost from head to toe, Senior White opened his eyes, his expression strange.

The Spirit Ghost in my hand was originally a mid-level Spirit Ghost, but now its rank has been lowered, becoming a 'Lower-Tier Spirit Ghost'!

Spirit Ghost's qualities are determined at birth and will not change throughout its life unless it encounters a miraculous event.

The rank of this Spirit Ghost has actually decreased? How could this be?

Song Shuhang asked, "Senior White, is there a problem?"

"You Spirit Ghost ... you've become Lower-Tier Spirit Ghost!" Venerable White grabbed the fist-sized Spirit Ghost, looking it over from left to right, while searching for similar events in his thousand-year-long memory.

"Lower-Tier Spirit Ghost?" Song Shuhang's eyes widened.

Although there is only one rank difference between the lower and middle ranks, there is a natural distinction between the two. Lower-Tier Spirit Ghost have no intelligence, can only provide their masters with an extra energy reserve, and can only advance to the Third-Grade Houtian Realm at most.

Mid-Rank Spirit Ghost, however, possess considerable intelligence and can share their mind and energy with their master. They help their master purify their internal energy and assist in cultivation, enhancing their power. They can potentially advance to a realm equivalent to the Sixth-Grade!

Lower-Tier Spirit Ghost can only be considered 'mana replenishment equipment'.

Mid-Rank Spirit Ghost are the real 'cheat codes'.

Is my character really that bad? After just one failure, even my Spirit Ghost's rank dropped? I've never heard of Soft Feather having this problem, even after failing so many times!

"Could it be that all the good karma I accumulated over the past few days has been used up?" Song Shuhang wondered to himself.

Just as Song Shuhang was feeling somewhat disappointed, Venerable White noticed the strangeness of the Spirit Ghost.

"No... it didn't become Lower-Tier Spirit Ghost!" Venerable White stared intently at the fist-sized Spirit Ghost for a long time before laughing, "So that's how it is. Young friend Shuhang, you're quite lucky!"

Song Shuhang asked, "May I ask for your guidance, senior?"

The Venerable White held up the 'Lower-Tier Spirit Ghost' in his hand, pointing it to its center—where a talisman, representing the Spirit Ghost's core, was slowly rotating.

"See that? The core! Mid-level and low-level Spirit Ghost don't have cores; only high-level Spirit Ghost possess such a thing."

"Your Spirit Ghost mutated due to various coincidences, but it failed to evolve into High-Rank Spirit Ghost! Instead, it used all its energy to condense this 'core,' and due to excessive consumption, it temporarily regressed to the 'Lower-Tier Spirit Ghost' realm. However, this regression is only temporary. Once it accumulates enough energy, it will recover to the Mid-Rank Spirit Ghost rank. At that time, it will have a chance to break through to the 'High-Tier Spirit Ghost' realm. Nurture it well; perhaps you can obtain a High-Tier Spirit Ghost!" Venerable White laughed.

"Evolve into High-Tier Spirit Ghost?" Song Shuhang's heart skipped a beat—a Mid-Rank Spirit Ghost is just like having an ordinary cultivator to help you cultivate. A High-Tier Spirit Ghost, on the other hand, is like having a genius-level cultivator to help you cultivate day and night!

"So, young friend Shuhang, do you still have the energy? If so, take advantage of its extreme weakness and set up the formation again, cast the 'Five-Element Spirit-Binding Altar' and establish a contract with it," Venerable White said with a smile.

"As for spirit, it's a must!" Song Shuhang grinned, even if he had to squeeze out enough spirit power!

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In the 'Nine Provinces Number One Group', several senior members are exchanging ideas.

The Medicine Master said, "The cause of the amnesia of the four fellow cultivators who entered the Mysterious Island has been determined. It is not due to damage to brain memory cells, nor was it because their memories were erased, nor was it due to the influence of illusion magic."

"What happened?" asked True Lord Yellow Mountain.

"Although it's very strange, the conclusion we've reached is that the two fellow Daoists and their disciples voluntarily signed something like a 'contract' with a powerful figure, and then they sealed their own memories!" the Medicine Master replied with a wry smile.

To be honest, even the Medicine Master found this result unbelievable—but it was the truth. Both amnesiac fellow cultivators had sealed their memories using a special method. The spell that Memory-Sealing Spell also bore the mark of a 'contract'... This should be a clue that the sealed memories could be unlocked after 'meeting certain conditions'.

But now, Daoist Kunyi and Daoist Nun Xuanxuan have absolutely no recollection of Memory-Sealing Spell on the 'Mysterious Island,' and they have no clue what this 'certain condition' was.

Now, there's no way to break this 'seal'.

"For two Spirit Emperors at the Fifth-Grade Golden Core to willingly seal their memories before leaving the Mysterious Island, what exactly is on that island that needs to be kept secret? Or just how powerful are the beings on it?" Drunk Moon Hermit wondered.

The Medicine Master replied, "But no matter what, at least the beings on the Mysterious Island didn't intend to exterminate them all, which is a stroke of luck amidst misfortune. Now, Three Waves have been inside for so many days, I wonder how they are doing?"

True Lord Yellow Mountain sighed, "I hope they return safely and with a full load."

The group chat was quiet for a moment.

The Medicine Master asked, "By the way, has Senior White adapted to the modern era? Song Shuhang isn't online; how's his mission going?"

Now that his amnesia was temporarily resolved, he wanted to find out when Song Shuhang's mission of 'receiving True Lord White's would end so he could go back and finish improving the 'Simplified Body Tempering Liquid' formula.

Speaking of Song Shuhang and Venerable White, True Lord Yellow Mountain scratched his chin and thought to himself: I haven't reminded my little friend Shuhang to be careful of Venerable White's sudden and strange good fortune!

I had originally intended to discuss this issue with Song Shuhang over the phone, but True Lord White was nearby at the time, so I couldn't bring myself to say it.

Speaking of Venerable White, he is not only charming and prone to losing focus and Flat-Ground Fall, but his aura is also incredibly powerful!

But how should we describe his luck? For those around him, this good fortune was always accompanied by a certain danger—for example, when True Lord Yellow Mountain received him after he left the pass, he introduced the new changes in the world to True Lord White as they walked.

Then, as they were walking... suddenly a huge meteorite fell from the sky and hit True Lord White and him right next to him! The crater was less than twenty meters away from True Lord Yellow Mountain!

If he hadn't been lucky, he would have been killed by the meteorite!

At that time, True Lord White calmly went down and decomposed the meteorite, extracting a whole bunch of materials that cultivators could use, such as 'Celestial Polar Star Steel', 'Star Iron', and 'Scarlet Goldstone'.

After finishing, he even gave himself a small portion of the materials, saying that everyone who sees them should have a share!

I thought this was just a coincidence.

But during the few days he spent with True Lord White, he experienced all sorts of bizarre things.

Sometimes, as you walk along, strange things suddenly appear on the ground; sometimes, a bolt of lightning strikes and splits an ancient tree into precious Lightning-Struck Wood; sometimes, when you pass a mountain, a landslide suddenly occurs, revealing ginseng and other medicinal herbs.

Danger lurks everywhere, and life is in danger at any moment; but True Lord White always manages to reap a bountiful harvest.

Looking back now, aside from the constant danger to my life, the gains were actually quite good.

Well, in short, we need to make sure our little friend Song Shuhang is careful about his safety!

Thinking of this, True Lord Yellow Mountain immediately dialed Song Shuhang's number again...