"Karmic affinity was mysterious beyond measure. The shocking secret Greed Ghost spoke of truly was shocking. Who would have thought that the Nine Ghost Path, always so prominent among the Six Demonic Sects, had the weakest direct disciple among the Six Paths—yet the first Dongzhen Realm cultivator to emerge would be White-Haired Ghost Child."
White-Haired Ghost Child was likewise a demonic prodigy.
Yet compared to the three great direct disciples of Yellow Springs of Wrongful Death—
The ever-changing, inscrutable eeriness of the Painted-Skin Path—
The unfathomable mystery of Deathless Manor that inspired such dread—
And the true disciples of Heaven-Spanning Sect and Black Sun Sect, who regarded all living beings as mere grass and devoured people with the cruelty of demons—the Nine Ghost Path's prodigious direct disciple was not particularly renowned.
After all, they cultivated Nine Ghosts. Their fleshly bodies and Divine Souls were both extraordinarily unusual, akin to the Ghost Path of the Primordial Era, yet not truly that ancient Ghost Path.
What they cultivated were the Nine Ghosts. In the eyes of the world, even if one became a Ghost Immortal through the Ghost Path in the Primordial Era, one naturally still could not compare to other orthodox Immortals.
This notion had also subtly influenced the standing of the Nine Ghost Path.
Yet precisely because the Nine Ghost Path came and went like wandering souls, and the Nine Ghosts they cultivated were greed, wrath, obsession, love, hate, desire, rage, sorrow, and joy—ghosts found most abundantly in the Mortal World—
The disturbances they caused were immense, and their reputation was the most active among the Six Sects.
Yet the Nine-Ghost Demonic Way was an entire lineage, while this White-Haired Ghost Child of the Nine Ghost Path had, by all outward appearances, indeed gained far less renown than the other