Bai Yu gazed at the Heavenly Ghost at the bottom of the basin. The surrounding mist had already condensed into substance, like an impenetrable suit of armor protecting the Sword Ghost below.
An endless stream of Killing Intent from the earth veins gathered at its Divine Mountain, filling the surroundings with a chilling air of slaughter.
Though this Heavenly Ghost had only just taken shape, a trace of astonishment flashed through Bai Yu's eyes. Having previously refined the Yellow Springs Ghost Mother, he knew something of the Heavenly Ghost Rankings.
No matter how terrifying the Sword Ghost's ranking was, it should have been impossible for it to reach the Mahayana Realm immediately after being born. After all, whether human or ghost, one had to obtain a Dao Fruit to condense the Mahayana Realm.
No matter how much of an innate blessed land Spirit Emperor Mountain was, without a Dao Fruit, one could never break through to the Mahayana Realm. That was an ironclad rule!
Yet this Heavenly Ghost had advanced directly into the Mahayana Realm the moment it was born...
At that thought, Bai Yu's gaze flickered. After a moment, realization finally dawned on him, and he drew in a sharp breath.
What had allowed the Sword Ghost to advance was not the power of the earth veins at all. Rather, Spirit Emperor Mountain itself was an ancient battlefield—and one where high-level Mahayana cultivators had once fallen!
After those cultivators' souls had scattered and vanished, the power they left behind had been transformed by the basin into Killing Intent. Combined with the aura of the ancient battlefield itself, it had turned this Heavenly Ghost into a magnet from the instant it was born, drawing in everything within.
"If it is allowed to stabilize, this Heavenly Ghost will become a terrifying