Wu Chu told Hao about how deceased humans' souls turned into ghosts, and had Hao pass word to the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals not to show mercy toward those ghosts that had lost their minds.
As for ghosts that could retain their reason, they could be treated as members of the spirit race. On the Primordial Land, spirit-type living beings were not unheard of, merely rather rare.
Many sprites formed from condensed essence and qi were spirit-type beings.
Such spirit-type beings possessed far greater stability than spirit-type beings formed from the souls of deceased creatures.
Spirit-type beings formed after a creature's death were like rootless duckweed. Their cultivation advanced far too slowly. Thus, after losing their bodies, the vast majority of creatures would seek out another body. Of course, only those with some cultivation could find another body.
Those with insufficient cultivation, such as ordinary creatures, could not keep their spirit bodies intact for long after being killed. Once they drifted into the air, a gust of Astral Wind would scatter them.
Like the Human Clan, not many of them could turn into ghosts after death.
However, Wu Chu had somewhat miscalculated this time. After all, the Primordial Land lacked nothing more than spiritual qi. Thus, after humans died, their remaining souls could easily draw enough spiritual qi from their surroundings to keep themselves from dispersing.
Some souls, driven by resentment or stimulated by blood, instinctively began hunting other creatures and feeding on their blood.
In just a few days, creatures had already fallen victim to these ghosts.
Yet most creatures in this world possessed cultivation and divine abilities, so those who suffered at the hands of ghosts were still the weak Human Clan themselves.
After Houtu began paying attention to this matter, she made a trip to the Blood