Sorry, my mind has been unsettled this evening, so I can only update half a chapter first. I will release the other half tomorrow afternoon.
Yu Ci's words hit the nail right on the head. Even though Shadow Ghost was startled and cursed fiercely, it didn't hesitate a bit, passing its consciousness over as clearly as possible.
Understood! Yu Ci projected his mind into the Heart Refining Dharma Fire, making adjustments.
His refiner's choice to redo the demon skull wasn't a sudden impulse; rather, he had been considering it even before entering the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, and acquiring the Heart Refining Dharma Fire made it far more feasible.
The bitter grudge that had originally led to Shadow Ghost being sealed inside the demon skull had slowly faded with the passage of time. Putting Shadow Ghost in the position of a "dog-headed strategist" truly held little meaning, not to mention that after undergoing a refining through the Heart Refining Dharma Fire, his control over this fellow would only grow stronger.
All these calculations had been mapped out long in advance, and Yu Ci struck with exceptional briskness. The demon skull was of ordinary material and proved far simpler to refine than the Wumeng Cicada Molt; after a tumble in the Heart Refining Dharma Fire, it took shape.
With a hiss, a stream of hazy grey vapor flowed out from the Buddha Bone Furnace.
The demon skull that Shadow Ghost had inhabited was gone; more accurately, it had been catalyzed into vapor. Yet that vapor twisted slightly in mid-air, interacting with the surrounding heaven and earth origin qi, growing paler and paler in color and losing the texture of vapor altogether, resembling instead an unceasingly flickering shadow.
This was truly a name well-earned.
This subsequent transformation was Shadow Ghost's own method,