Su Fang, hiding beneath the soil, frowned slightly.
"This matter is ultimately my fault. To avoid any misunderstanding, I really should go out, greet this senior brother, and apologize..."
Just as Su Fang thought the other party had discovered him and was about to rise, he suddenly sensed an unusual soul aura growing increasingly dense.
After thinking it over, Su Fang still did not move. He felt that he had not been discovered.
Su Fang saw a soul slowly float upward, gradually taking the shape of a figure.
The surrounding Yin Baleful Qi seemed to have found a vessel, swiftly gathering toward that soul.
For a moment, winds rose and clouds churned. Vast amounts of Yin Baleful Qi gathered frantically and poured into that soul.
Even Su Fang, hidden beneath the Gods and Devils Cemetery, sensed the changes in the surrounding Yin Baleful Qi.
"This Yin Wraith is no simple matter. It is far stronger than that fellow I encountered in Qiu Zhenzi's tomb.
"This Yin Wraith's strength may have already reached the Martial Lord realm.
"However, Yin Wraiths are soul bodies, and within this Gods and Devils Cemetery, their strength will be even greater!"
Su Fang, who had originally planned to go out, concealed himself once more.
The situation was still unclear. If he rashly rushed out, he would very likely end up caught between a rock and a hard place.
Moreover, the aura emanating from this Yin Wraith was extremely strange.
Relying on the mysteries of Soul Art, Su Fang easily detected the problem with this Yin Wraith.
"Yin Qi should have been incomparably cold. Coupled with the many powers contained within this Gods and Devils Cemetery, this creature absolutely could not possess such a tranquil aura!"
Su Fang understood that although these wronged souls could wander freely through the Gods and Devils Cemetery, they actually had their own shortcomings.
First, these Yin Wraiths usually fed on Yin Baleful Qi, causing the other powers hidden within it to constantly erode their intelligence.
Second, the Gods and Devils Cemetery was a burial ground for Gods and Devils, and an unseen power constantly suppressed everything within it. That was why this place was known as a forbidden land for the living, and Yin Wraiths were no exception.
Yet this Yin Wraith's aura was calm and composed, like an ancient well without a ripple. That was deeply abnormal.
Su Fang even sensed that Yin Wraith's aura on Jiang Chen.
"If nothing unexpected happens, Jiang Chen must have made a deal with this Yin Wraith!"
As Su Fang pondered inwardly, the Yin Wraith drifted lightly toward Jiang Chen. Her movements were graceful, and within only a few breaths, she arrived directly before him.
"It's you! Why aren't you staying in your grave? What are you doing out here?"
Jiang Chen spoke harshly, his face somewhat pale as he looked at the Yin Wraith.
At that moment, a magnetic female voice rang throughout the cemetery. Under the influence of that voice, the fallen leaves around them actually withered even faster.
Even the Red Yin Trees, which had stood firm and unmoving in the Gods and Devils Cemetery, began to tremble faintly.
The Yin Baleful Qi that had already been gathering around the Yin Wraith accelerated further, soon forming a hazy gray mist that tightly shrouded her.
"Oh my, Young Master Jiang, you and I have long been entangled beyond all clarity. Why are you in such a hurry to cast me aside?"
"Since our parting long ago, this humble one has missed day and night the Yang Qi Young Master left behind. When my feelings reached their depths..."
Before the Yin Wraith could continue, Jiang Chen let out a furious roar that resounded through the small cemetery.
"Enough! If you dare mention what happened that day again, do you believe that even if I have to sacrifice this exotic treasure today, I will still kill you!"
"That matter is the greatest shame of my life. If you had not helped me back then, you would have long since become a dead soul beneath my sword!"
With that, Jiang Chen turned and left, paying no further attention to the Yin Wraith beside him.
"Wuwuwu... this humble one is merely a wretched soul. Why are there so many heartless men... so mournful, so miserable, so sorrowful,
"as though no one knows... Who in this cemetery knows this humble one's heart... This humble one's life is like duckweed, drifting and falling, never knowing when I may finally touch the earth..."
The Yin Wraith's voice was mournful and desolate, echoing through the surrounding cluster of graves.
Although Su Fang was hidden beneath the Gods and Devils Cemetery, still using Yin Qi and the Yang Qi of the Solar Stone to break through his bottleneck,
he could still sense the tremors in the Yin Qi around him.
Feeling the resonance between the Gods and Devils Cemetery and the Yin Wraith before him, even Su Fang was startled at that moment.
"How did this fellow do it? What lies buried within the Gods and Devils Cemetery? It is absolutely impossible for someone to wield the cemetery's power so easily!"
But Su Fang soon calmed down. With his Max-Level Comprehension, he instantly understood the connection.
"Underground! There must be many things beneath this Gods and Devils Cemetery that I do not know about. Perhaps those two obtained treasures underground, which allowed them to transform into what they are now."
Su Fang had already made up his mind. Once this matter was settled, he would return underground beneath the Dao Sect and continue digging.
To him, those countless graves were no longer traps filled with Yin Wraiths.
Instead, they were opportunities containing boundless Creation.
"Esteemed seniors, this junior naturally knows that grave robbing is not something honorable."
"But if this junior does not dig graves, then in a few days, this junior will likely be among those lying underground. So I can only apologize first."
Su Fang muttered a few words in his heart. He did not care whether grave robbing would damage his virtue. Only by doing this could he increase his strength and continue living.
Everything Su Fang did was merely to become stronger, merely so he would not die here.
To survive, digging up someone else's ancestral grave was nothing shameful.
If he did not dig graves, the people buried in these grave clusters would be dead, and he would be buried alongside them.
The people buried in these grave clusters were dead anyway. Leaving those things behind was only a waste of resources.
He might as well dig them out and use them to grow stronger.
That would instead become another form of inheritance for these dead people.
Su Fang even secretly considered whether he should use the purest Yang Qi of the Solar Stone to forge himself a treasure specifically for grave digging.
Yet what surprised Su Fang was that the Yin Wraith did not attack Jiang Chen. Instead, she quietly drifted through the cemetery.
Her form was strange, as though she were ethereal and formless.
No one knew where she slipped into, nor where she emerged from.
It was as though the Yin Wraith was searching for someone, or waiting for someone.
"If I did not possess Soul Art, this Yin Wraith might truly have frightened me!"
"If she still refuses to leave, then I will use every ounce of my strength to destroy her!"
With the aid of those black and white energies, Su Fang's current strength was insufficient to fight this Yin Wraith for long. But if he exhausted the Creation Flame and added Soul Art, he still had several chances of victory.
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