Ghost-Nurturing Art (Fourth Update, Please Bookmark and Recommend)

Ghost-Nurturing Art (Fourth Update, Please Bookmark and Recommend)

Ah, truly helpless! To get onto the update list, I'll post two chapters together!

Soul Bodies were also classified. On a single Soul List, there could only be one Soul Body of the same type. If a Soul List contained two or more Soul Bodies of the same type, it would very likely cause the Soul List to shatter.

Once a Soul List shattered, it would affect the sea of consciousness. At the same time, the soul bodies controlled by the Soul List would also lose control and turn on their master.

Thus, possessing two Soul Lists meant that Hu Donghan could possess two soul bodies of the same type! The temptation within that went without saying.

Take the Medicine Spirit Ghost alone. Having one more Medicine Spirit Ghost would definitely not be a simple matter in terms of the benefits it could provide!

Hu Donghan suppressed the excitement in his heart as quickly as possible. Only then did he use the method recorded in the "True Exposition of the Ghost Path" to separate a wisp of the ordinary ghost's soul and bind it to the Soul List.

Once a soul was placed upon the Soul List, so long as it was not powerful enough to break free of the Soul List's restraints, it would inevitably be controlled by Hu Donghan. In this way, Hu Donghan had completely controlled his first Soul Body.

"Two Soul Lists... I truly never imagined that I would encounter such fortune! But now is not the time to celebrate. First, I should see whether the miraculous ghost-nurturing art in the 'True Exposition of the Ghost Path' truly works! Besides, my most urgent task right now is still to raise my own cultivation. Therefore, the best choice for this first soul body is naturally to cultivate it into a Medicine Spirit Ghost..."

The Soul List had already condensed, and the soul body's soul had also been placed upon it. Hu Donghan was now almost certain that the methods in the "True Exposition of the Ghost Path" were genuinely effective.

"To cultivate a Medicine Spirit Ghost, the ghost-nurturing method says that it must be fed over a thousand souls through the Ghost-Nurturing Art. Yet this Soul Ring of mine contains fewer than a hundred Wandering Souls, nowhere near enough... However, cultivating a Medicine Spirit Ghost cannot be done in one step. It requires three stages: nourishing the soul, changing the body, and solidifying the form. If it is only the first stage, soul nourishment, then these Wandering Souls should be enough. Once the soul-nourishing stage is complete, it will be easy enough either to go out and hunt ghosts or buy Wandering Souls from other disciples here at Overlapping Peaks."

Wandering souls were, after all, the weakest existences among all souls. One could encounter such souls even within Overlapping Peaks, let alone at a dedicated ghost-nurturing ground. Once he went to a ghost-nurturing ground, gathering these wandering souls would likely not even take a quarter of an hour! Naturally, wandering souls were also the cheapest among all soul bodies. One hundred wandering souls for one spirit stone—that was already the usual price when they could not be sold.

After hesitating for a moment, Hu Donghan decided to nourish the soul first.

He raised a hand and summoned over the ordinary ghost at his side, which had only just taken on a somewhat humanoid shape. Chanting the soul-nourishing incantation, he held a wandering soul in his hand and tapped the ordinary ghost.

Immediately afterward, a huge mouth suddenly appeared before the Mortal Ghost and swallowed the Wandering Soul whole! After being swallowed, the Wandering Soul was not immediately devoured and absorbed by the Mortal Ghost. Instead, it struggled wildly within the Mortal Ghost's body. Hu Donghan had experience nurturing ghosts in his previous life, so he naturally knew this was perfectly normal. He continued chanting the soul-nourishing incantation without pause.

As Hu Donghan chanted, the Wandering Soul's movements within the Mortal Ghost became increasingly violent. The Mortal Ghost, meanwhile, was tossed about by the Wandering Soul's struggles and wailed endlessly, its miserable cries coming one after another! This continued for about five minutes before the Wandering Soul slowly melted away within the Mortal Ghost, turning into streams of pure yin qi and ghost qi. The Mortal Ghost finally stopped wailing and struggling, its expression becoming one of enjoyment.

After another ten minutes or so, the Wandering Soul gradually vanished completely within the Mortal Ghost's body. As for the Mortal Ghost, after absorbing the Wandering Soul's yin qi and ghost qi, its faint Soul Body became somewhat more substantial in color.

When Hu Donghan stopped chanting the soul-nourishing incantation, the Mortal Ghost immediately transmitted a message to him through consciousness, seemingly expressing joy, anticipation, and gratitude.

After allowing the Mortal Ghost to absorb the first Wandering Soul, Hu Donghan immediately extended spiritual power into its body to inspect it. With this inspection, the lingering worries in his heart finally vanished:

"After absorbing the wandering soul, the ordinary ghost's soul-body strength has increased. Even its cultivation aptitude seems to have risen a little, and the color of the Ghost-Spirit Light within its body has also changed somewhat. If I continue cultivating it, the Ghost-Spirit Light should advance as well. It seems the Ghost-Nurturing Art can indeed raise the ordinary ghost's aptitude as I had imagined! After some time, evolving this ordinary ghost into a Low-Grade Ghost Demon should not be a problem..."

"Although the Yin Soul Sect's sect manual also mentions a so-called Ghost-Nurturing Art, that ghost-nurturing method is truly crude beyond measure. Though it too is called ghost nurturing, the ghosts it raises receive not even one ten-thousandth of the benefits. In the end, it merely increases the ghosts' ferocity! It simply cannot be compared with the Ghost-Nurturing Art in the 'True Exposition of the Ghost Path.'"

Although a Ghost Demon's grade did not have much effect on the "True Exposition of the Ghost Path," it was quite useful for cultivating the Profound Yin Heart Method. The "True Exposition of the Ghost Path" did not contain any specific methods for raising cultivation, so the Profound Yin Heart Method was naturally quite important to Hu Donghan.

If the Yin Soul Sect's cultivation methods followed a crooked side path, then the cultivation methods described in the "True Exposition of the Ghost Path" were nothing less than a steep mountain trail, their danger far too great.

In Hu Donghan's heart, he had long since regarded the Yin Soul Sect's techniques as his primary cultivation method.

"For the Mortal Ghost to absorb one Wandering Soul takes about a quarter of an hour. Roughly accounting for rest time, I should be able to cultivate the Mortal Ghost for around eight hours a day. In other words, feeding all the Wandering Souls in the Soul Ring to the Mortal Ghost will probably take three days. Judging by the Mortal Ghost's current condition, after it has consumed all the Wandering Souls in the Soul Ring, the soul-nourishing stage should be complete..."

Thinking this, Hu Donghan touched the Soul Ring on his hand, caught another Wandering Soul, and continued feeding it.

Thus, the Mortal Ghost swallowed Wandering Soul after Wandering Soul, constantly gaining ghost qi and yin qi. Its body became increasingly solid, while the Ghost-Spirit Light within it deepened in color. Pale green specks had already appeared upon it. This was proof that the Mortal Ghost's grade was rising!

In the blink of an eye, three days had passed. Hu Donghan had finally fed every Wandering Soul in the Soul Ring to the Mortal Ghost.

After three uninterrupted days of feeding, the Mortal Ghost seemed to have reached its limit at this stage. Of the last few Wandering Souls he fed it, more than half of their yin qi and ghost qi had not been absorbed. As for the Mortal Ghost's current form, it looked plump and round, like an obese man swollen from overnutrition.

(End of Chapter)