The instant the Female Ghost raised her head and spoke, Master and I finally saw what she looked like.
The Female Ghost looked exactly like Huang Xi, the woman from the Southern Miao Huang Family whom I had killed before.
But her eyes had turned blood-red, gleaming with a crimson light.
However, the voice she spoke with now was completely different from before. It was the voice of someone else.
Seeing this, I immediately said,
"Master, this isn't that Huang Family Gu girl. But why has her voice changed? Could she be something else in disguise?"
Master nodded slightly.
"That's right. That Gu girl's ghost has likely already been eaten by this thing.
What we've encountered should be a rare Ghost Fiend."
The moment I heard the words "Ghost Fiend," my heart jolted.
It was a relatively rare ghostly evil. According to the Grandmaster's Notes:
When ghostly shadows gather, hearts and souls freeze in an instant.
Ghost Fiends had neither form nor body.
They differed from the malevolent entities we had encountered before, which had human shapes and recognizable forms.
They were not like ghost mist or lingering spirits either, with fixed appearances...
This kind of evil was more like a mass of consciousness, a body of energy.
They fed on ghosts and existed only within certain environments.
They could only form in places where resentment gathered.
They could take the form of any ghost they had consumed.
But the Grandmaster's Notes had only briefly described the characteristics of this evil and had not recorded how to drive it away.
After recalling everything I knew about Ghost Fiends, I asked,
"Master, how should we deal with a Ghost Fiend?"
Master looked at the Ghost Fiend before us and replied calmly,
"The eyes!
They have no form, but those manifested red