Before the Ghost General could react, flashes of blades and swords pressed in from every side. Surrounded, he took more than a dozen spear thrusts in an instant.
However formidable the Ghost General was, it could no longer fight back. Then a heavily armored Yin Soldier stepped forward. A Talisman flashed on its gleaming blade, and it cut off the Ghost General's head.
But a ghost above the rank of Malicious Ghost was no longer made purely of Yin Energy and soul. It had a core. So long as that core remained intact, losing its head did not matter. Ghost Aura churned at its neck, as though a new head were about to grow...
Tang Changsheng and Xin Chengying had no intention of giving it the chance. Tang Changsheng rubbed his hands together, and another Lamp Blossom drifted from the Primordial Yang Divine Lamp onto the churning ghost aura.
It was Wishfire kindled with Sky Silver. The moment it touched the Ghost Aura, it caught like a match dropped into gasoline. With a roar, the Ghost General went up in flames.
"Wonderful! Wonderful! That awful ghost is finished. He chased us the whole way..."
The two little foxes had taken human form. Their clothes were smeared with blood and dirt, and their small faces were a mess. Only when they saw the Ghost General destroyed did they finally breathe easy.
"He must have become a Ghost General only recently," the widely traveled Xin Chengying said. "Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so weak or so easy for us to kill!"
Tang Changsheng nodded in agreement, then frowned at the two Little Foxes. "What happened? Where's your master?"
"Master was hurt... There were dead people everywhere..."
"The flood came, and Master suddenly coughed up blood. Then a black-robed Daoist charged in..."
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