Soul Refining Island, Soul-Refining Hall.
"What? You're saying the Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone inside Northwatch Mountain's Spirit Vein is gone?!"
The Soul Hall Master had heard only half the report before he sprang from his chair. His black robes billowed, and demonic shadows coiled behind him, making his fury plain.
With his Life-bound Dharma Treasure damaged and much of his ghostly qi depleted, the Many-Ghost Devil Master could not even be bothered to stand. "He's a Nascent Soul Cultivator from the Desolate Ancient Continent, called the Master of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner. He wields a Ten Thousand Souls Banner with a Nascent Soul Main Soul. And that's not all—his mountain-shaped Life-bound Dharma Treasure is extraordinarily powerful."
"With a single blow, he reduced our Myriad Ghost Lamp to this."
As he spoke, the Many-Ghost Devil Master raised his right hand. A streak of black light darted from between his brows and hovered above his palm, taking the shape of the Myriad Ghost Lamp.
The Soul Hall Master glanced at the damaged lamp, and the anger in his eyes gave way to clarity.
"You mean one blow from him did that to your Myriad Ghost Lamp?"
"Yes."
The Many-Ghost Devil Master sighed. "Otherwise, even with his Ten Thousand Souls Banner, I wouldn't have fled back here."
The Soul Hall Master's brow gradually furrowed.
"The Ten Thousand Souls Banner, the Nascent Soul Early Stage, and such a formidable Life-bound Dharma Treasure—even on the Desolate Ancient Continent, this man must be a vicious fiend."
"Exactly!" The Many-Ghost Devil Master threw up his hands, speaking with some agitation. "What is the Taiyi Immortal Sect doing, letting a monster like that live? He even used a Teleportation Formation to slip into our Abyssal Continent and wreak havoc."
"If you ask me, a Demonic Cultivator like that