Ghost Devour!

Eating hair didn't work!

It had failed!

His body suddenly sprang up, shoved the window open, planted a foot on the sill, and was about to leap out.

It wanted to eat people!

What could he do?

Xu Yuan could only fight desperately for control of his body, holding it still for the moment.

That wasn't enough!

He had to leave it unable to fight back.

Unable to fight back...

"Stop holding me back. I've figured it out."

His mouth moved on its own, speaking with unhurried ease:

"Humans have it too hard. Life is too meaningless, all that rushing about for things that amount to nothing—"

"You won't deny that, will you?"

"No." Xu Yuan played for time.

"Exactly," his voice said, growing excited. "Let's become ghosts together. Ghosts are so free, so simple."

"All we have to do is hunt—"

"Hunting, devouring, and growing stronger. That's all there is to us."

"Isn't this way of life simpler than Creation?"

"Listen," Xu Yuan said patiently. "This is only an Art. We can turn back into humans, and we can become ghosts again whenever we want. There's no need to stay ghosts forever."

His voice turned furious and roared:

"I've seen life on Earth—humans suffer too much! Being a ghost is better. I'm becoming one right now, and you can't stop me!"

There was no reasoning with it.

He had to eat it.

But Ghost Devour would only work if he left it "unable to fight back"!

Xu Yuan's mind raced.

There was a way.

In all this time, there's only been one moment when I truly couldn't fight back!

He couldn't wait.

It was getting better and better at controlling his body.

Do it!

Do it now!

Xu Yuan gritted his teeth, drew the Qiong Jia Sword, and drove