Lü Mountain, the Flying Pearl Artifact

"No!"

A shrill scream rang out from the ghost-path immortal's soul body.

With its fleshly body destroyed, even though it cultivated the ghost path, its immortal road in this life had been severed unless it encountered some heaven-defying opportunity. Moreover, it had suffered grave injuries and no longer had any chance of resisting Fang Shu.

Having destroyed the creature's shell, Fang Shu immediately wielded his dharma power to restrain its soul body and drag it before him.

He did not rush to strike a killing blow. Instead, after examining it closely, he asked curiously, "Fellow Daoist, you are not from Withered Bone Abbey?"

The Five Sects of Mount Lu were Beauty Palace, Five Viscera Temple, Flesh Abbey, Four Limbs Temple, and Withered Bone Abbey.

Each of the five Dao lineages had its own specialty, but none chiefly cultivated the ghost path. From what Fang Shu had seen within Five Viscera Temple, its disciples held ghost-path cultivators in considerable contempt. They believed such people slighted the fleshly body and prized the soul, a lowly method of cultivation fit only for servants.

Seeing itself restrained, the ghost-path immortal was terrified, yet it mustered a surge of vicious indignation and shrieked, "You heretical side-path wretches, do not slander me! I am a disciple of the Lü Mountain Witch-Ghost Way. When have I ever been one of those people from some worthless ruined abbey?!"

At these words, Fang Shu's eyelids lifted slightly.

He had heard a little of the Lü Mountain Witch-Ghost Way. It was not a Dao lineage of the Jade Kingdom, but lay beyond the mountains, in foreign lands.

Lü Mountain was as renowned as Mount Lu, and there were no Five Sects upon it—only the single Witch-Ghost Way. Legend had it that its origins could be traced back to the Heavenly