Ah, truly helpless! To get on the update list, I'll post two chapters together!
Soul Bodies also had classifications. On a single Soul List, there could only be one Soul Body of the same type. If a Soul List held 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 of this naturally 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 bring!
Hu Donghan suppressed the excitement in his heart as swiftly as possible. Only then did he follow the methods in the True Exposition of the Ghost Path, separating off a trace of the Mortal Ghost's soul essence and tying it to the Soul List.
Once a soul essence was placed upon the Soul List, so long as its strength had not grown 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 gained control of his first Soul Body.
"Two Soul Lists... I truly never imagined that I would encounter such fortune! However, now is not the time to rejoice. First, I should see whether the 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, for this first Soul Body, the best choice would naturally be to nurture it into a Medicine Spirit Ghost..."
The Soul Lists had already condensed, and the Soul Body's soul essence had also been placed upon them. Hu Donghan was already ninety percent certain that the methods within the True Exposition of the Ghost Path were truly effective.
"To cultivate a Medicine Spirit Ghost, according to the introduction in the ghost-nurturing methods, I would need to feed it over a thousand souls through the Ghost-Nurturing Art. Yet this Soul Ring in my hand contains fewer than a hundred Wandering Souls, nowhere near enough... However, cultivating a Medicine Spirit Ghost cannot be accomplished in a single step. It requires three stages: nurturing the soul, changing the body, and solidifying the form. If it is only the first stage, soul nurturing, then these Wandering Souls should be enough. Once soul nurturing is complete, whether I go out to hunt ghosts or purchase Wandering Souls from other disciples on Overlapping Peaks, both will be easy enough."
Wandering Souls were, after all, the weakest of all souls. These souls could be encountered even within Overlapping Peaks, much less in specialized ghost-nurturing grounds. Once he went to a ghost-nurturing ground, gathering these Wandering Souls would probably take less than a quarter of an hour! Naturally, Wandering Souls were also the cheapest of all Soul Bodies. One hundred Wandering Souls for one Spirit Stone—that was still the price for stock that generally could not be sold.
Hu Donghan hesitated for a moment, but ultimately decided to nurture the soul first.
He stretched out a hand and summoned over the Mortal Ghost at his side, which had only just taken on a vaguely human shape. As Hu Donghan chanted the soul-nurturing incantation, he pinched a Wandering Soul between his fingers and tapped the Mortal Ghost.
Immediately afterward, a huge mouth suddenly appeared before the Mortal Ghost and swallowed that 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 that this was perfectly normal. His mouth continued chanting the soul-nurturing incantation without pause.
As Hu Donghan recited the incantation, the Wandering Soul's movements inside the Mortal Ghost became increasingly violent. The Mortal Ghost, meanwhile, was tossed about by the Wandering Soul's struggles until it wailed without end, its shrill cries coming one after another! This situation lasted for roughly five minutes before the Wandering Soul slowly melted within the Mortal Ghost, transforming into streams of pure yin energy and ghost energy. Only then did the Mortal Ghost cease its wailing and struggling, its expression turning blissful.
After another ten minutes or so, the Wandering Soul gradually vanished bit by bit within the Mortal Ghost's body. As for the Mortal Ghost, after absorbing the Wandering Soul's yin energy and ghost energy, its faint Soul Body became somewhat richer in color.
When Hu Donghan stopped chanting the soul-nurturing incantation, the Mortal Ghost immediately conveyed a message to him through its consciousness, seemingly filled with joy, anticipation, and gratitude.
After allowing the Mortal Ghost to absorb its first Wandering Soul, Hu Donghan immediately reached out and sent spiritual power into the Mortal Ghost's body to inspect it. Upon doing so, the lingering worry in his heart finally vanished:
"After absorbing the Wandering Soul, the Mortal Ghost's Soul Body has grown stronger. Even its cultivation aptitude seems to have improved slightly, and the color of the Ghost-Spirit Light within its body has changed somewhat as well. If I continue nurturing it, the Ghost-Spirit Light should also advance. It seems that the Ghost-Nurturing Art truly can improve the Mortal Ghost's aptitude as I had imagined! After some time, this Mortal Ghost should have no problem evolving into a Low-Grade Ghost Demon..."
"Although the Yin Soul Sect's sect canon also introduces a so-called Ghost-Nurturing Art, that kind of art is simply crude beyond measure. Though it is also called ghost nurturing, the ghosts it nurtures receive less than one ten-thousandth of the benefits. In the end, it merely raises the ghosts' ferocity! It cannot be mentioned in the same breath as the Ghost-Nurturing Art in the True Exposition of the Ghost Path."
Although a Ghost Wraith'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 contained no specific methods for improving cultivation, so the Profound Yin Heart Method was naturally quite important to Hu Donghan.
If the Yin Soul Sect's cultivation methods walked the side paths and crooked ways, then the cultivation methods introduced 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 cultivation art as his primary cultivation method.
"For the Mortal Ghost to absorb one Wandering Soul, it 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 from the Mortal Ghost's current state, once all the Wandering Souls in the Soul Ring have been fed to it, the Mortal Ghost should have completed the soul-nurturing stage as well..."
With these thoughts in mind, Hu Donghan touched the Soul Ring on his hand, caught another Wandering Soul, and continued feeding it.
Thus, the Mortal Ghost swallowed Wandering Souls one after another, continuously gaining ghost energy and yin energy. Its body also grew increasingly solid. The Ghost-Spirit Light within it deepened in color, and faint 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 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 fed to it, more than half of their yin energy and ghost energy had not been absorbed. The Mortal Ghost now looked plump and round, like an obese man overstuffed with nourishment.
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