Mother-Child Twin Sha

There had been no process whatsoever.

In a single thought, Li Hai had mastered every one of Asu's skills.

However, he did not hurriedly push all these new skills to their maximum level.

That was because he himself was still inside Guo Family Village and had yet to leave.

Li Hai felt that if the breakthrough phenomena of these Ghost Path skills were too conspicuous—

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—for example, if eerie light flashed wildly or yin energy erupted, drawing the attention of all the village's ghosts, that would not be good.

Ghosts were naturally different from humans.

You could still reason with people and discuss right and wrong, but trying that with ghosts... heh heh, only someone kicked in the head by a donkey would do something that stupid.

Now that Li Hai possessed the abilities and essence of a ghost, he deeply understood that every ghost could be called the ultimate manic-depressive patient.

Whether or not you provoked it, it might still attack you like mad.

If it were only Asu and Guo Lao San, Li Hai would not be overly wary.

They were all at the same level, and he even had two more skills than them. Why the hell would he fear them?

But if the entire Guo Family Village, with its hundreds of ghosts, were added to the equation, he was not so confident.

Therefore, Li Hai decided that after finding a chance to escape the village, he would level up in peace.

Furthermore, regarding the origins of the younger Guo Huaijin before him, Li Hai had immediately learned its true nature after mastering Asu's many skills.

In short, this Guo Huaijin... was a fake.

If the effect brought by [Ghostly Image Level 1] was to create all sorts of illusions that disrupted living people's perception of the outside world—

Then [Ghostly Image Level 2] went a step further, allowing one to create false images that looked exactly like real people.

Yes, this Guo Huaijin, who could converse and chat with others and even interact with physical objects, was fundamentally a false image created by Asu.

As for why Asu had done this, and what it meant to her—

To be honest, Li Hai did not care much.

"Brother Li."

After finishing their conversation, Guo Lao San turned and said to Li Hai with a smile, "Go take a look at the fields with the village chief. That way, you'll have a better idea of the situation."

Those words suited Li Hai perfectly, so he immediately replied, "Sure, sure. Village Chief Guo, take me there now. I can have a look at the situation while we're at it."

"I'll have to trouble you this time, Brother Li."

Guo Huaijin smiled at Li Hai, then turned to Asu and said gently, "Wait for me at home. I'll be back soon."

"Mm." Asu nodded with a smile.

After saying their farewells, Li Hai followed behind Guo Huaijin and headed out of the village.

There were no complications at all.

Very soon, the two left the village and traveled two li before arriving at a vast expanse of farmland.

Upon arriving, Li Hai had no intention whatsoever of speaking to the fake Guo Huaijin. He directly pushed all of Asu's skills to their maximum level.

Boom!

In an instant, countless streams of yin energy swept in from every direction, centered on Li Hai, and were absorbed and devoured into his body, mind, and soul.

The incomplete version of the Evil Spirit Earth Yin Absorption Method was immediately cultivated by Li Hai to its very peak.

His Ghost Path level thus leaped from the Dead Soul tier to the higher Fierce Soul tier, turning him into a genuine, ferocious evil ghost.

As an evil ghost, his two basic innate ghost traits—[Ghost Body] and [Ghostly Image]—naturally advanced from Level 1 to Level 2.

From then on, in his ghostly form, Li Hai could not only pass easily through walls and rocks, but also greatly reduce damage from things formed of ordinary yang energy, such as Flame, bullets, and all kinds of worldly filth.

As for the effects of Level 2 Ghostly Image, there was no need to elaborate. The false Guo Huaijin was the best example.

From then on, Li Hai could use this trait to effortlessly cast all manner of powerful illusions, even fabricating false people who appeared able to sit, lie down, walk, speak, and laugh, yet were actually nothing but empty shells.

Besides that, Li Hai also naturally cultivated Asu's other two Ghost Path arts—Evil Sha Yin Descent and Resentful Sha Yang Extinguishing—to perfection.

The former could nurture an Evil Sha within one's body, mind, and soul, one linked to its master's consciousness.

This sha could brazenly enter the bodies of anyone with mediocre vitality and blood, possess them, then control their flesh, body, and soul as it pleased.

The latter could cultivate an incomparably vicious yin-sha breath capable of extinguishing a mortal's Three Yang Flames from afar.

The so-called Three Yang Flames were also known as the three fires, or the three lamps.

It was said that every living person had three fires: one on each shoulder and one atop the head.

Whether they burned strongly represented whether a person's vitality and fate were normal.

Once the fires weakened and the lamps dimmed, it meant that person either suffered from grave illness or had poor fortune.

As the saying went, when a person died, their lamp went out. If someone's Three Yang Flames vanished without a trace, it meant they were no longer among the living, but one of the dead.

In Li Hai's view, however, these Three Yang Flames were probably the human body's so-called life magnetic field.

As for this life magnetic field, Li Hai had only learned of it in his previous life after watching those half-true, half-false popular science videos on his phone.

In short, Resentful Sha Yang Extinguishing was a versatile killing move capable of both long-range area attacks and silent assassinations.

Asu's [Twin Sha Level 2] trait had likewise been born from these two Ghost Path evil arts.

Moreover, from these two ghost arts and the Twin Sha trait, Li Hai also guessed why Asu was far stronger than the many ghosts of Guo Family Village.

It was because she had been a woman ten months pregnant and on the verge of giving birth.

According to old tales, if such a pregnant woman nearing delivery were burned to death in a fire after suffering unbearable agony, she would surely be filled with boundless resentment and hatred.

And if she were then buried in an Evil Spirit Land, she would likely transform together with the dead fetus in her womb into the most vicious and malevolent Mother-Child Twin Sha.

The Resentful Sha was all the pain and hatred Asu had condensed, while the Evil Sha was the infant in her womb that had been burned alive alongside her.

Li Hai had obtained all this information from that incomplete Evil Spirit Earth Yin Absorption Method.

Guo Family Village, along with this gloomy forest, was precisely the so-called Evil Spirit Land.

As for where Asu had learned this evil spirit method, Li Hai had no idea, nor any way of finding out.

"So..."

A sudden thought occurred to Li Hai. "What role did Guo Huaijin play in all this? Was he the arsonist, or a survivor?

"If it was the former, what benefit would he gain from burning his own wife and child to death? If it was the latter, hmm... that sinister old dog probably wasn't that innocent, was he?"

All of a sudden, "Guo Huaijin," who had been standing some distance away, vanished into thin air without any warning.

"Hm? He disappeared."

Li Hai said curiously, "Did Asu withdraw the Ghostly Image herself? What does she want to do?"