The Water Pool and Fire Marsh, True Water and True Fire

Tang Changsheng nodded. His plan was simple. The Mother-and-Child Vicious Ghosts were formidable indeed, capable of producing Ghost Creatures with the strength of Vicious Ghosts through Ritual Refinement. But it would be hard for him to produce Ghost Soldiers of that caliber through Ritual Refinement in a short time.

The reason was simple: Evil Demons and practitioners of the Outer Dao could use all manner of cruel methods—torment, Blood Sacrifice, and other evil arts—to increase the power of Ghost Creatures.

But Yin Soldiers produced through orthodox Ritual Refinement could never be tainted by such things. They had to be produced through pure inner cultivation and Ritual Refinement.

It was just as martial arts novels said: orthodox methods were slow to master at first, but they presented few obstacles, and their practitioners came into their own with time.

Unorthodox methods, on the other hand, took a crooked path, using all sorts of dark arts. They could be fearsome at first... but the farther one went, the narrower the road became!

The same held true for the method of producing Yin Soldiers through Ritual Refinement. Yin Soldiers produced through Ritual Refinement by orthodox practitioners brought no hidden dangers or future troubles, and could even earn merit.

Yin Soldiers produced through Ritual Refinement by unorthodox practitioners, however, were often tormented and full of Grievance Aura, ready at every moment to turn on their masters. If a master let his guard down, the consequences would be too horrific to behold...

Since ancient times, few who had raised ghosts through such dark arts had escaped death at the hands of the Ghost Creatures they raised!

But this was the final age of cultivation. The spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth was fading, and the upright path was in decline. Only these dark arts could still