Red-Clothed Female Ghost, Blood Fiend Level

Zheng Yi had only just moved from the Immortal City to the Demonic Domain. In Blood Mist Abyss City, he had no foundation, no connections, and even faced danger at every moment. He had to act more prudently.

However, a Soul Guiding Array of this scale happened to suit Zheng Yi's current circumstances.

After all, this Apocalyptic World was not as simple as it seemed. Its waters ran deep.

With Zheng Yi's current strength, if he happened to draw in a particularly vicious malevolent ghost with a hundred years of cultivation—or even a Red-Eyed Zombie—he might not be able to handle it.

The entire school ruins only spanned two or three hundred meters. This Soul Guiding Array was already sufficient.

As for anything larger, Zheng Yi could only think about it for now.

If he were to draw some terrifying vengeful spirit or malevolent ghost in this bizarre Apocalyptic World, it would at least be no good thing for him at present.

A gray radiance slowly rose. The semicircular array standing on the ruined playground emitted an invisible ripple that passed through the air like water rings, spreading outward in all directions.

In an instant, heaven and earth fell still.

The hideous ghosts and monsters, the dark shadows lurking within the school, seemed to have been struck by a immobilizing spell, freezing in place.

In the next instant, ghost qi erupted. All of it turned toward the array, scarlet eyes gleaming with greedy desire, as though they had glimpsed the most fatal temptation of all.

One after another, vicious-looking malevolent ghosts and resentful spirits roared as they charged toward this place.

The commotion of countless Vengeful Spirits swarming in filled the school with a shrill, piercing gale of malice. The ghost qi they stirred up surged like a blanket covering the sky and earth, pouncing fiercely upon the playground.

They scrambled and fought, each refusing to yield to the others.

This Soul Guiding Array truly lived up to being a product of the Demonic Domain's Soul Devouring Sect. It held a fatal attraction for those evil spirits, resentful souls, and malevolent ghosts devoid of intelligence, and its effect was astonishingly good.

In the blink of an eye, all the malevolent ghosts in the entire Ghost School erupted into unrest.

Some powerful malevolent ghosts even tore the resentful souls and ghostly monsters blocking their way into pieces, letting out piercing Ghost Howls as they charged unstoppably toward the Soul Guiding Array.

Zheng Yi sat down cross-legged. As he watched the vengeful souls and malevolent ghosts howling in from every direction, the gusting yin wind sent his robes fluttering. Not only was there no fear on his face, but he casually waved the Soul Devouring Banner in his hand.

Surging demonic qi poured from the Soul Devouring Banner, whipping up a cloud of black mist that directly shrouded an area several dozen meters around him. It was like a great woven net, waiting for its prey to walk into the trap of its own accord.

Ever since cultivating in this Apocalyptic World, Zheng Yi's strength had improved considerably. The Black Fiend Qi he stirred up by waving the Soul Devouring Banner had expanded by more than threefold.

Qi Refining was divided into nine tiers. In just half a month, he had not only dissolved the Morning Origin Art he had originally cultivated and switched to the Demonic Domain Black Fiend Skill, but his realm had even risen slightly.

Compared to the prodigies nurtured as key disciples by the sects of the Da Yi Immortal Domain, Zheng Yi's progress at this pace was scarcely inferior.

The hideous vengeful souls and malevolent ghosts lunging at him were directly scattered by the Black Fiend Qi, turning into streams of pure ghost qi that merged into the Soul Devouring Banner.

The process was not complicated. With every wave of Zheng Yi's Soul Devouring Banner, several or over a dozen vengeful souls and malevolent ghosts would be refined by it and turned into pure ghost qi.

Yet the number of ghosts surrounding the Soul Guiding Array not only did not decrease, but grew greater and greater.

If this place were in the Da Yi Immortal Domain, low-tier Demonic Cultivators would likely go mad with excitement. This was truly a holy land for rapidly cultivating Demonic Sect techniques.

Unfortunately, Zheng Yi alone could enjoy it.

He directly treated the place as a base. During the day, when the sun hung high overhead and vengeful souls and malevolent ghosts feared yang qi and rarely appeared, Zheng Yi used that time to recover his energy.

When he was hungry, he simply ate Grain Avoidance Pills. When thirsty, he drank the fresh water he had brought with him. He stayed on this playground almost all day and rarely moved.

At night, when vengeful souls and malevolent ghosts emerged, Zheng Yi would activate the Soul Guiding Array, unfurl the Soul Devouring Banner, and frantically refine the ghosts.

On the third night, the Red-Clothed Female Ghost Zheng Yi had been waiting for finally appeared.

In the darkness, a tremendous boom rang out from deep within the school ruins. The earth seemed to have been blasted open into a huge pit as surging blood-colored sha qi shot into the sky.

The terrifying aura was intensely corrosive. As the blood-colored sha qi spread, it directly crushed the vengeful souls and malevolent ghosts entrenched around it, melting and dissolving them one by one.

Amid the howling yin wind, ghost qi merged into the Blood Sha Aura.

That Blood Sha Aura soared into the heavens. A pale-faced figure slowly appeared in midair, enveloped in blood-colored sha qi as though she wore a garment of red.

Yet strangely, apart from a narrow mouth split all the way to the back of her head, the Red-Clothed Female Ghost had no other facial features. Her face was a completely blank slate.

"Such powerful sha qi. This Red-Clothed Female Ghost is actually a Blood Fiend Malevolent Ghost?"

According to the records in the Soul Devouring Sect's Black Fiend Skill, malevolent ghosts were formed from people who died unwillingly, their resentment too great, transforming them into malevolent ghosts.

Based on the degree of resentment, they were further divided into three grades: White Fiend, Black Fiend, and Red Fiend.

Blood Fiend Malevolent Ghosts were the most vicious among Red Fiend Malevolent Ghosts, and also those with the greatest resentment. Only a terrifying ghost that had devoured more than a hundred resentful spirits could possibly advance into one.

Because their resentment was immense, such Blood Fiend Malevolent Ghosts were far stronger than ordinary malevolent ghosts and extremely dangerous. Yet they were also the very things Demonic Cultivators of sects like the Soul Devouring Sect coveted most.

Even in the Da Yi Immortal Domain, malevolent ghosts of this level were not something ordinary low-tier Demonic Cultivators could encounter.

It was said that in the Marketplace, a Blood Fiend Malevolent Ghost was worth several hundred Spirit Stones—absolutely no small sum for a low-tier Demonic Cultivator.

"The Soul Devouring Banner happens to lack a primary soul. I had planned to think of a way after returning to the Da Yi Immortal Domain, but I never expected you to deliver yourself right to my door."

Screee!

Suddenly, the Red-Clothed Faceless Female Ghost let out a shriek. Her mouth split to the roots of her ears, revealing dense, pointed teeth as the piercing sound released a Ghost Howl ripple that struck directly at the soul.

Caught off guard, Zheng Yi's soul trembled from the shock, and he could not help revealing a trace of alarm.

He had once merely been a minor Rogue Cultivator, practicing the utterly ordinary Morning Origin Art. How could he ever have seen such a savage malevolent ghost or resentful spirit?

The Blood Fiend Malevolent Ghost whose name he had heard but whose form he had never seen gave him a show of force the moment they met.

The ghosts surrounding the Soul Guiding Array fled frantically in all directions under that shriek. They were either dissolved by the Red-Clothed Female Ghost's Blood Sha Aura, or scattered and devoured by Zheng Yi's Soul Devouring Banner.

The few remaining malevolent ghosts that escaped by chance scattered in terror as well.

Sure enough, this Red-Clothed Faceless Female Ghost was the Ghost King of this Ghost School, an existence forged through frenzied slaughter. With a single shriek, she had killed quite a few resentful spirits.

Her strength was undoubtedly that of the most terrifying ghost Zheng Yi had encountered thus far.

Blood-colored sha qi coiled around her sharp, pallid Ghost Claws. She clawed fiercely at the Black Fiend Qi released by the Soul Devouring Banner, actually tearing open a gash in it, and the Red-Clothed Female Ghost continued attacking inward without the slightest courtesy.