Medicine Spirit Ghost (Third Update, Please Bookmark and Recommend)

Chapter 16: Medicine Spirit Ghost (Third Update, Please Bookmark and Recommend)

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 peculiar abilities toward spirit herbs. Wherever a Medicine Spirit Ghost was present, medicinal herbs grew twice as fast as they did elsewhere! The size of the area it covered varied according to the Medicine Spirit Ghost's strength. Of course, merely doubling the growth rate would only make some cultivators envious. What truly made people's eyes turn red was that a Medicine Spirit Ghost could consume the yin energy within its body and focus on cultivating one or several specific medicinal ingredients! Once it concentrated on cultivating medicinal herbs, so long as it had sufficient yin energy, it could theoretically accelerate their growth by up to 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 if a Medicine Spirit Ghost focused on cultivating them! If those alchemy masters learned of this, reddened eyes would be the least of it.

And the Medicine Spirit Ghost's ability to cultivate spirit herbs was merely one of its abilities. It had another special ability: according to its current realm and cultivation, it could condense spirit liquid with the effects of a particular spirit medicine! Whether consumed directly or used in alchemy, such spirit liquid functioned exactly like that spirit medicine and could produce its proper effects.

The Medicine Spirit Ghost's final ability was pill refinement. Among cultivators, those gifted in alchemy were exceedingly few, and they were treasures within the cultivation world. An alchemist never needed to worry about lacking sufficient pills to raise their cultivation, nor did they need to risk venturing outside to obtain resources. As for a Medicine Spirit Ghost, so long as the pill formula, medicinal ingredients, and pill furnace were properly prepared, it could refine pills on its own. Its initial success rate might not be high, but the more it refined, the higher its success rate would become. How powerful an attraction this held for a cultivator went without saying!

It could be said that once one possessed a Medicine Spirit Ghost, as 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 resented not 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 be cultivated directly from one. It had to be cultivated from an Attribute-less Soul Body to succeed! That was why Hu Donghan had been so excited and delighted when he discovered that the ordinary ghost was actually an Attribute-less Soul Body.

Once he possessed a Medicine Spirit Ghost and had enough spirit medicine to support him, even with the talent of a Middle-Grade Four-Spirit Root, Hu Donghan's cultivation speed could rival those geniuses! After all, even those geniuses could not take pills every day, every meal, to cultivate!

"In the True Exposition of the Ghost Path, the Soul Body branch is the foundation. Zombie, Skeleton, and Miscellaneous branches can only assist cultivation after one has achieved a certain level in Soul Bodies. However, those other three branches also have their merits! The Zombie branch focuses on using corpse energy to assist cultivation. Once one finds a suitable corpse-nurturing ground, raising a powerful Zombie within two or three years is not too difficult. Skeletons mainly rely on death energy; their bones are rigid, and their death energy possesses a powerful disruptive effect. Once they advance, their momentum is unstoppable. As for the Miscellaneous branch, it contains many arts related to Soul Bodies, Zombies, and Skeletons. Most are sinister and strange, while there are also certain medicines related to the three major branches. They can assist my cultivation and raise the strength of Soul Bodies, Zombies, and Skeletons alike, making them a great aid to me..."

"However, the other three branches cannot yet be cultivated. For now, I must still focus on the Soul Body branch. First, I must use the Ghost-Nurturing Art to nurture this ordinary ghost and cultivate it into a Medicine Spirit Ghost, thereby strengthening myself! And if I wish to cultivate it into a Medicine Spirit Ghost, I must first use the Soul List art from the general outline of the True Exposition of the Ghost Path to entrust this ordinary ghost's soul to the Soul List within my divine soul!"

"Condensing a Soul List from the divine soul might have taken some effort in this life without the experience of my previous life. But since I have already condensed a Soul List once, it is much easier now. According to the general outline of the True Exposition of the Ghost Path, I need only visualize the Soul Body portion in my mind, then follow the guidance within the general outline—"

"Condense!"

With a light shout of the word "condense," Hu Donghan sensed line after line of text emerging in his mind. These words drew upon the power of his divine soul, ultimately forming an enormous stele within his sea of consciousness. Text churned endlessly across it before transforming into mysterious, unfathomable runes, which formed the character "List" upon the stone tablet.

Just as the Soul List formed and Hu Donghan was preparing to send the Mortal Ghost's soul into it, he suddenly felt a disturbance arise within his divine soul.

With something going wrong in his divine soul, how could Hu Donghan dare to be careless? He hurriedly steadied his mind and cautiously attempted to control his divine soul. But at that very moment, Hu Donghan discovered that his divine soul was completely beyond his control! And while his divine soul was out of control, another massive stele formed within his sea of consciousness, with another character "List" appearing upon it.

This 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 in succession, he finally opened his eyes in disbelief and exclaimed in delighted surprise, "Th-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 it possessed two Soul Lists!

Having studied the True Exposition of the Ghost Path in his previous life, Hu Donghan naturally understood that control over Soul Bodies mainly depended on the Soul List! Depending on one's increasing strength, a Soul List could accommodate different numbers of Soul Bodies. Once the number and 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 practicing the True Exposition of the Ghost Path was self-evident.

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

And the improvement in strength brought by two Soul Lists would definitely not be as simple as doubling it!

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

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

"Two Soul Lists... If I still cannot ascend to the summit in this life, then I would truly be letting myself down!"

(End of Chapter)