Medicine Spirit Ghost

Strictly speaking, a Medicine Spirit Ghost could be considered a branch of the Wood-Attribute Soul Body. Its special abilities were enough to make nearly every cultivator under heaven green with envy: cultivating spirit herbs, producing spirit liquid, and refining pills!

A Medicine Spirit Ghost lived up to its name. This type of Soul Body was born with an extraordinary affinity for spirit herbs. Wherever a Medicine Spirit Ghost was present, medicinal herbs grew twice as fast as elsewhere! The area it covered varied according to its strength, of course. But merely doubling growth speed would only make some cultivators envious. What truly made people's eyes burn red was that a Medicine Spirit Ghost could consume the yin energy in its body to focus on nurturing one or several specific medicinal herbs! Once it focused on nurturing herbs, as long as it had sufficient yin energy, it could theoretically accelerate their growth by as much as thirty times!

Thirty times! What kind of concept was that? It meant that medicinal herbs requiring thirty years to mature could ripen in just one year under a Medicine Spirit Ghost's dedicated cultivation! If those master alchemists learned of this, red eyes would be the least of it.

And the Medicine Spirit Ghost's ability to cultivate spirit herbs was only one of its abilities. It possessed another special ability: based on its current cultivation realm, it could condense spirit liquid with the effects of a particular spirit medicine! Whether consumed directly or used in pill refinement, this spirit liquid could produce the same effects as that spirit medicine.

The Medicine Spirit Ghost's final ability was pill refinement. Among cultivators, those with the talent to become alchemists were exceedingly rare; they were treasures within the cultivation world. An alchemist never needed to worry about lacking enough pills to raise their cultivation, nor did they need to risk going out to obtain resources. As for a Medicine Spirit Ghost, as long as the pill formula, ingredients, and pill furnace were prepared, it could refine pills on its own. Its initial success rate might not be high, but the more pills it refined, the higher that success rate would become. How could such a thing not hold an overwhelming attraction for cultivators?

It could be said that with a Medicine Spirit Ghost, so long as it kept pace with one's cultivation, there would be no need to worry about cultivation resources at all.

With such miraculous effects, it was no wonder Hu Donghan had regretted never obtaining a Medicine Spirit Ghost in his previous life.

However, although a Medicine Spirit Ghost was a special Soul Body cultivated from a Wood-Attribute Soul Body, it could not actually be cultivated from a Wood-Attribute Soul Body. It had to begin with an Attribute-less Soul Body to succeed! That was why Hu Donghan had been so thrilled and delighted when he discovered that the Mortal Ghost was an Attribute-less Soul Body.

Once he possessed a Medicine Spirit Ghost and had sufficient spirit medicines to support it, even with only a Middle-Grade Four-Spirit Root, Hu Donghan's cultivation speed could rival those geniuses! After all, even geniuses could not take pills every day, at every meal, for cultivation!

"In the True Exposition of the Ghost Path, the Soul Body path is the foundation. Zombies, Skeletons, and miscellaneous arts can only assist cultivation after one has achieved a certain level in the Soul Body path. However, the other three paths each have their own merits! The Zombie path focuses on using corpse qi to aid cultivation. Once a suitable corpse-raising ground is found, raising a powerful Zombie within two or three years would not be too difficult. Skeletons mainly rely on death qi. Their bones are rigid, and their death qi possesses powerful disruptive abilities; once they advance, their momentum is irresistible. As for the miscellaneous arts, they contain many techniques connected to Soul Bodies, Zombies, and Skeletons. Most are sinister and strange, and there are also certain medicines related to the three great categories. They can aid my cultivation and raise the strength of Soul Bodies, Zombies, and Skeletons alike—an enormous help to me..."

"Still, the other three paths cannot yet be cultivated. For now, I must focus on the Soul Body path. First, I will use the Ghost-Nurturing Art to raise this Mortal Ghost, cultivate it into a Medicine Spirit Ghost, and strengthen myself! If I wish to cultivate it into a Medicine Spirit Ghost, I must first use the Soul List technique from the True Exposition of the Ghost Path's general outline to entrust this Mortal Ghost's soul to the Soul List within my divine soul!"

"If I did not have the experience from my previous life, condensing a Soul List with my divine soul would likely take quite some effort in this life. But since I have already condensed one before, it will be much easier. According to the general outline of the True Exposition of the Ghost Path, I only need to visualize the Soul Body section in my mind, then follow the guidance within the outline—"

"Condense!"

With that sharp cry, Hu Donghan sensed lines of text emerging in his mind. The words drew upon the power of his divine soul, eventually forming an enormous stone stele within his sea of consciousness. The words on it churned without end before transforming into one profound rune after another, finally forming the character "List" upon the stele.

Just as the Soul List formed and Hu Donghan was preparing to send the Mortal Ghost's soul into it, he suddenly sensed an abnormal movement within his divine soul.

How could Hu Donghan dare be negligent when something had gone wrong with his divine soul? He immediately steadied his mind and cautiously tried to control it. Yet at that very moment, he discovered that his divine soul was completely beyond his control! While his divine soul was out of control, another enormous stele formed within his sea of consciousness, bearing the character "List."

It was, astonishingly, another Soul List!

Only after the second Soul List had completely taken shape did Hu Donghan slowly regain control over his divine soul.

The instant he could control his divine soul again, Hu Donghan immediately examined it. After inspecting it several times, he finally opened his eyes in disbelief and cried out in delight, "This... How is this possible? Two Soul Lists!"

That newly formed Soul List was no illusion—it was a genuine second Soul List!

One divine soul, yet two Soul Lists!

With his studies of the True Exposition of the Ghost Path in his previous life, Hu Donghan naturally understood that control over Soul Bodies primarily depended on the Soul List! A Soul List could contain different numbers of Soul Bodies as one's strength increased. Once the number or strength of Soul Bodies exceeded what the Soul List could control, it would trigger a backlash. Thus, the importance of the Soul List to cultivators of the True Exposition of the Ghost Path went without saying.

And now, Hu Donghan possessed two Soul Lists! This meant that the number of Soul Bodies he could control would be twice that of someone with a single Soul List!

And the increase in strength brought by two Soul Lists would absolutely not be as simple as merely doubling it!

"Why do I have two Soul Lists within my divine soul? According to the True Exposition of the Ghost Path's general outline, one divine soul should only possess one Soul List!"

"That's it! Could it be because my soul crossed into another world? My current divine soul's power consists not only of my own divine soul, but also of the divine soul of that unlucky fellow whose body I took over? If that is the case, then I possess two divine souls. Two Soul Lists appearing in my sea of consciousness would seem reasonable."

"With two Soul Lists, if I still cannot climb to the summit in this life, I would truly be letting myself down!"