Vengeful Ghosts and Yakshas followed the same principle.
Although Vengeful Ghosts had physical bodies as well, their bodies were not actually that strong, roughly on par with Ghost Soldiers. What made them formidable was purely the vicious supernatural power born from that murderous intent.
Yaksha bodies, on the other hand, had already mutated and could be called aberrations among ghosts.
Their physical strength was no weaker than that of Golden Zombies, and they possessed unimaginable speed that Golden Zombies could never match. Combined with even more powerful supernatural abilities, once a Yaksha locked onto someone, unless they possessed a teleportation-type ability, they would be doomed beyond salvation.
That was why the Black and White Extremes had immediately lost their nerve upon hearing they had to deal with a Yaksha.
"..."
Li Xiao had just been ruled by his urge to destroy, with fighting filling his mind. Now that he had calmed down, he too realized that the Yaksha was far too powerful, utterly beyond what they could handle at present.
Only then did he remember the reward.
He had yet to inspect the reward from the fifth floor.
He looked at the ring and instantly understood the newly acquired function: a shield.
This was an actively triggered ability. It could generate an energy shield, whose position and angle could be adjusted according to the user's will to defend against enemy attacks.
However, its exact strength still needed to be tested.
"Could this ability withstand a Yaksha's full-force strike?"
Li Xiao suspected that this new function had been specifically meant to defend against Yaksha attacks. The problem was that Yakshas were so fast—even with the shield activated, who could react in time and adjust it to block their attacks?
It did not feel very reliable.
Li Xiao simply activated the shield.