There was no doubt about it. Ye Qing and the Guangyuan Mountain ghost were both ghosts.
But the difference in their yin energy might be like the difference between the ancients and people today.
It wasn't that Ye Qing wasn't strong enough. It was that her strength and the Guangyuan Mountain ghost's strength were entirely different things.
The Guangyuan Mountain ghost and the shrine keeper both seemed to have broken free of the traditional definition of a ghost. They had no so-called obsessions. All they were doing was "claiming a mountain as their own."
Guides, something new...
I shuddered.
They... were probably all something new...
Something new that would replace the ghosts that existed now.
They had no obsessions, only ambition.
They might even share a set of behavioral patterns. Each using their own methods to seize a certain area, kill people, drive out ghosts, and become something like a Ghost King.
I found it unbelievable, yet it also seemed perfectly reasonable.
This world was getting worse.
If humanity was going to be knocked from the top of the food chain by another species, then that species could only be another kind of "humanity."
Those ghosts might not even be people who had turned into ghosts after death. They might be spirits...
My head throbbed, as if it were about to explode.
For a moment, I seemed to see a gloomy sky and the pointed tops of skyscrapers.
Those images were quickly swallowed up by clouds of dust...
Monsters... beasts...
I remembered that dream and came to my senses with a start.
I opened the video from earlier and dragged the progress bar.
After a few tries, I reached the part where the monster appeared.
The image was somewhat blurry, but the beast's head emerging from underground was identical to