Recovering the "Tricky Specter" (First Update!)

Blood Pass.

Zheng Clan Market, cultivation chamber.

Various garments lay scattered throughout the room. Xue Shuangzi was limp all over, sprawled atop the soft couch, her chest heaving violently as she continuously breathed in and expelled Yin Energy.

Beneath her disheveled skirt, the ink-dripping "upright" character on her thigh, along with the horizontal and vertical strokes beneath it, were rapidly fading away.

The incense offerings that had previously seeped from her entire body quietly dispersed, revealing her normal fleshly form.

The cultivation session ended. Zheng Que put away the [Soul-Eating Ink Soldier] he had just borrowed from Mu Xiangu and could not help letting out a breath of stale air.

This time, cultivating with Yan Bingyi had caused his cultivation to surge again!

Although he had exercised considerable restraint and stopped circulating the [Yin-Yang Joyous Union Secret Record] halfway through, his cultivation had still reached the peak of Foundation Establishment Late Stage.

He could not put off forming his core any longer!

"Yan Bingyi said last time that if I want to form my core, I need to achieve something in the path of 'Ghost Controlling.'"

"And the simplest way to accomplish this is to enslave a ghost from [Iron Tree Hell] with Foundation Establishment Realm cultivation."

"I can't borrow any external power during this process."

"Luo Fuyu, Mu Xiangu, [Evil Shadow Play]... none of them can take part."

"I can't even bring Xue Shuangzi."

"Because Xue Shuangzi obeys my orders now not because of my strength, but because she fears the Underworld."

"Only ghosts enslaved through the normal use of [Ghost Controlling Technique] count as my own power..."

As these thoughts raced through his mind, Zheng Que had already dressed. Before enslaving a ghost from [Iron Tree Hell], he first needed to retrieve the "Belly Specter."

Though the "Belly